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Balance Quilt Block Part 2

Posted on March 14, 2014 | 12 comments

In this post, I showed a few straight set quilt designs with the Balance quilt block.

Now let’s look at this block set on point:

It’s a nice quilt. I could see this on a table top, or the favored arm chair for this time of year.

How would it look with a green background?

I prefer the white, but one isn’t better than the other…just personal preference.

Perhaps more open space for the quilter who likes to show off her quilting:

How about “floating” the blocks:

One more:

All of the blocks in the above designs are the Balance quilt block and variations created from Balance by deleting lines and moving color around.

You really can do a lot with one block.

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Aunt Sukey Spins Off

Posted on February 21, 2014 | 6 comments

For my personal block/quilt design challenge, I chose Aunt Sukey’s Choice quilt block this week.

It is drawn with a 6 x 6 grid.

I usually challenge myself to add/delete lines to a block to come up with alternate blocks, and then use these blocks, along with the original block, to design quilts.

I got distracted by SewCalGal’s red and white challenge. In Phase II, we are challenged to design a red and white quilt. If we want to actually make the quilt, then Phase III is available for us to enter.

The blocks in the following design do not include the original Aunt Sukey’s Choice block, but two variations that I drew from it.

The quilt size is 84.5″ x 96.5″.

Electric Quilt (my quilt design software of choice) even gives the yardage requirements!

And just for fun, let’s see how it looks when I move the red and white around:

I like them both!

If I were to make this design, I don’t know that I would stick to just three fabrics. As long as I keep the importance of value/contrast in mind, I could make this a scrappy red and white quilt.

I’m going to link up with SewCalGal! How about you? Are you taking the red and white challenge?