February 2020 - Shoo Fly (Elbow Room)

Make this classic block the easy way shown below, and your points will have plenty of elbow room.

Use high or low contrast fabrics, whatever colors you want. This scrap quilt will be awesome!

1. Cut 3" squares: 8 from the main fabric (shown yellow) and 3 from the other (shown black).

Cut two on the diagonal, as shown above.

2. Place the triangles as shown above. Sew. Press. 

Trim.

3. Assemble the block. Done!

November 2019 - Winding Trails

Winding Trails is a great scrap quilt block. Use any prints, solids, stripes, dots; it's all good. 

Scroll down to see the sample.

Choose two fabrics. Cut one 4" square and one 3" square. 

Then cut the 3" square in half on the diagonal, as shown above.

Position the two triangles "by eye" as shown above, and then sew 1/4" from the long edge.

Press open. Trim. Make a bunch so they can be used in columns, as shown below. 

Here's my Winding Trails quilt, so you can see one way these blocks might be used.

 I can't wait to see all our blocks on the wall.

 I like that crazy gold and green fungus fabric on the left (below). Bold stripes look pretty cool too. 

I could be happy making Winding Trails quilts all day long!

By the way, Winding Trails is in Farmington, where we used to bring our sons to swim in the 1980's.

September 2019 - Hammonasset

Named after our longest beach in Connecticut (2 miles), Hammonasset 

(pronounced Ham-in-ass'-it) is a quilt featuring the colors of beach towels.

Choose any number of solid colors. Cut six rectangles 2" x 3.5."

Sew them in a row. Press. 

Choose a solid white, off-white, or low-volume print. Cut one 4.5" square. 

Then cut it in half on the diagonal. 

Sew the white triangles to the stripes, as shown above. Press. Trim to a 6" square.

Making this block can be addictive.  :)

Enter the drawing once for each block that you bring.

Here are just a few ideas for using these pretty blocks.

These blocks were brought to the September meeting. Nice job! 

Congratulations to Diane who won the blocks.