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365 challenge: 1 - 8 апреля 2017 г.
April 1
FLYING GEESE BORDER, 18″ x 6″, Light
Let’s do something different for the start of the month. Let’s start the border around the central Four Queens block! Four days of using enormous pieces.
Download Centre Medallion – Border 1 instructions (as .pdf).
April 2
SAWTOOTH BORDER, 18″ x 6″, Light
Download Centre Medallion – Border 2 instructions (as .pdf).
April 3
SLANTED DIAMONDS BORDER, 18″ X 6″, Light
Download Centre Medallion Border 3 instructions (as .pdf).
April 4
STREAK OF LIGHTNING BORDER, 18″ x 6″, Light
Download Border 4 instructions (as .pdf).
April 5
PATCH AS PATCH CAN, 6″
This block is one from the Aunt Martha series published by Colonial Patterns Inc in 1952. Colonial Patterns was founded in the 1930s, and still publishes patterns today from Kansas, USA.
Download Medallion Corner 1 instructions (as .pdf).
April 6
FLYING FIST, 6″
This block is from the pattern library in EQ7. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any further information about it; even a Google search showed up nothing. But I like it’s rotating movement that is perfect for our quilt corner.
Download Medallion Corner 2 instructions (as .pdf).
April 7
RAZZ-MA-TAZZ, 6″
According to Jinny Beyer, this block was first published under the moniker Red and White Cross by Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune, in 1936. However, I found it as Razz-Ma-Tazz in Molly Malone’s reference, and thought this was a much more flexible name!
Download Medallion Corner 3 instructions (as .pdf).
April 8
KANSAS TROUBLES, 6″
The Kansas Troubles to which the block refers are the seven years leading up to the American Civil War when Kansas was considering whether to become a slave state or a slave-free state, a time rife with terrorism on both sides of the agenda.
There’s two notable variations of the Kansas Troubles block. The earliest version was a Ladies Art Company pattern from c. 1895 or 1897 (depending on your source). Jinny Beyer tells us that this version of the block has gone by the names Delectable Mountains, Grand Right and Left in 1941, Kansas Trouble (singular) in 1934 and Lucasta’s Block when Nancy Page presented in in 1940.
The second common version is the one published by Hall and Kretsinger in 1935. This one went by so many names, I won’t bore you by listing them!
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Ladies Art Company, c1895 |
Hall and Kretsinger, 1935 |
Our version is a variation illustrated by Molly Malone in 2003. I think it has just that little extra bit of movement.
Download Medallion Corner 4 instructions (as .pdf).
Central Medallion Layout
Congratulations! You now have all the blocks to complete the central medallion!
Have fun joining them.
Download Central Medallion Layout instructions (as .pdf).
BIRTHDAY CAKE
If today is your birthday, firstly, Many Happy Returns! Secondly, feel free to substitute today’s block with this birthday block … except perhaps if it’s the central medallion, centre borders, or perhaps the corner flowers (in this case, keep this block up your sleeve for when I give you something horribly difficult which you would prefer to avoid). Choose the light or dark version and the size according to where in the cycle you land.
The other alternative is to make it as a bonus block and use it as the label on the back of your quilt. Perhaps one of the fabrics could be fairly plain to allow your writing to be legible?
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Dark Version |
Light Version |
The block is one of Nancy Page’s. She published it in the Birmingham News, first in February 1936 as Birthday Cake, then again, under the name Birthday Parties in June 1942.
Cutting Instructions
A (dark dark): cut one 2¼” x 2¼” square
B (medium): cut one 2¼” x 2¼” square
C (dark or medium dark): cut one 2¼” x 2¼” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles
D (medium, same as B): cut one 2¼” x 2¼” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
E (dark dark, same as A): cut one 2¼” x 2¼” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
F (dark dark, same as A): cut one 1″ x 1″ square
G (dark dark, same as A): cut five 1½” x 1½” squares
H (light medium): cut five 1½” x 1½” squares
6″, Dark
A (dark dark): cut one 3½” x 3½” square
B (medium): cut one 3½” x 3½” square
C (dark or medium dark): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles
D (medium, same as B): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
E (dark dark, same as A): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
F (dark dark, same as A): cut one 1½” x 1½” square
G (dark dark, same as A): cut five 2″ x 2″ squares
H (light medium): cut five 2″ x 2″ squares
6″, Light
A (white background): cut one 3½” x 3½” square
B (light): cut one 3½” x 3½” square
C (medium): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles
D (light, same as B): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
E (white background, same as A): cut one 3½” x 3½” square, cut in half, diagonally to form two triangles; you only need one triangle
F (white background, same as A): cut one 1½” x 1½” square
G (white background, same as A): cut five 2″ x 2″ squares
H (cream background, light or medium): cut five 2″ x 2″ squares
Sewing Instructions
The large Half-Square Triangles:
3″ Block:
Trim the A/B units to 1¾” x 1¾”, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
6″ Block:
Trim the A/B units to 3″ x 3″, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
Make the C/D and C/E units from the triangles. Sew them right sides together with a scant ¼” seam, taking care not to stretch the fabric as you sew along the bias edges.
3″ Block:
Trim these units to 1¾” x 1¾”, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
6″ Block:
Trim these units to 3″ x 3″, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
Join the units as you would any Four Patch:
The small Half-Square Triangles (the candles on the birthday cake):
3″ Block:
Trim the G/H units to 1″ x 1″, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
6″ Block:
Trim the G/H units to 1½” x 1½”, ensuring that you place the diagonal on your ruler on the block diagonal.
Join these, right sides together, with a scant ¼” seam, to make two sawtooth units. Note that the units are mirror images:
Join all the block components as you would any Four Patch:
Enjoy your birthday!!!