Improv scrap quilts
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Now we go beyond the Log Cabin. How about some LARGE pieces of fabric doing the work? Still irregular, indiscriminate blocks for a clean, t...
I realize that this is NOT a news flash, but I've been playing with scraps again. Ha! It's messy work, but someone has to do it! I made these banner blocks for the Minneapolis Modern Quilt Guild. The only requirements were to use brights and white fabrics and they needed to be 6.5" square. I had a lot of fun making them. This one is my favorite! It's a mini version of my bright birch trees quilt. The block is made up of 31 teeny tiny scraps....and one big white scrap. I love it so very much…
Marbles scrap quilt block tutorial by Leanne at Devoted Quilter. Use even your smallest fabric scraps to create these fun quilt blocks. The tutorial walks you through the whole process, from box of scraps to beautiful quilt block.
Picture by I. Breguet
I am including Improvisational Quilt, no. 4 in this year's challenge. It was sewn during Hurricane Harvey in the late summer 2017 but it was the quilt that started this movement to sew and document these quilts. I like the quilt backings to be interestingly different from the fronts. In this quilt's case, it is backed with a very soft 1970s vintage sheet. I sew these as intuitively as I can. I generally have a pile of fabrics I think work well together and then I just start sewing. Sometimes…
Welcome to the first of the AHIQ 'why don't you try this' posts. The aim of these posts is to offer anyone new to improv the chance to explore different ways of starting and hopefully also to provide some new challenges and ideas to people already happily working improvisationally. (There are definitely going to be some areas that I will be tackling for the first time too.) My challenge to you this month is to take a shape, any simple shape, and see where it leads you. I thought to kick off…
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Right before the Baltimore Craft Show last weekend, I had a brainstorm for a new quilt. This frequently happens when I’m in deadline mode before a show for some reason–maybe that’…
