A Color/Setting Idea for Spokes (as snowflakes)

A Color/Setting Idea for Spokes (as snowflakes)

When I saw this quilt design by Deb Grifka, called Holiday Sweater, I knew that personally, I would never do all that machine appliqué, but … I might make some spokes blocks, mostly white spokes on a given color, a few with the colors reversed, and run with the color/setting idea to create a holiday sweater quilt of my...

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One more Spokes block

One more Spokes block

One more spokes block to add the the other ones for a total of four. I should have cut the extensions on a diagonal! Oh,...

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3 spokes

3 spokes

I have three for the drawing this month. I’ve never made this type of block before and it was a lot of fun. If you made the spokes a little wider, I think they’d look like wrapped gifts. I might have to make one like that in holiday...

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My one spoke block

My one spoke block

Here is my one Spoke Block.  I cut three (and three to make for myself) but not sure will get the time to sew them before the dead-line!  The photo was, as usual, taken late at night, but I eventually ended up taking the photo on my ironing board, as it seemed to be the only place that the colours/colors were close to reality.  This size makes an interesting block.  Karen...

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Have You Noticed?

Have You Noticed?

These are my 14 spokes blocks for my Mod-Mod Queen-size Sampler quilt. As I was making them, I put them up on the wall in an on-point orientation. Have you noticed that the spokes within the block looks the same whether they are in a straight set or on-point? The only difference is whether the touching spokes are vertical and horizontal or on the diagonal. If you look REALLY close, you might also notice that my set of 14 blocks has that one of...

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Three blocks

Three blocks

I’ve finished three blocks for July.  These went together fairly fast so I may even get a few more done before end of the...

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