Basic Patchwork workshop

[janestarz]

With only one Workshop class to go, I am nearly halfway sewing my quilt. Let me explain.

The original design of the quilt we are making in the workshop "basic patchwork" is displayed here to the right. Despite this not being my colour scheme, it is fairly obvious the blocks are sewn into the quilt rotated onto their points.

I don't particularly fancy one-way symmetrical designs. It makes for too much thinking when in use. I like my quilts to be at least two-way symmetrical, so I can't use them sideways. More way-symmetrical is an added bonus. In short: the horizontal bands with the four blocks are not for me.

I did some basic math. Each block measures 15 centimeter square, and if I were to add a 5 centimeter sashing between the blocks, I'd have a small quilt. We're making 6 different blocks, so that would make a 6x4 blocks quilt, measuring 85 by 125 centimeters (without border or binding). That's pretty tiny.
When we were making the log cabin block I realised I wanted to not make four log cabins. It's just not my thing. I also had a fabric restriction: the center block usually is a red-tone, and I only had one fabric with a red in it. I am severely limited by the fabrics I was using, and realised I couldn't work with the several shades to make up the block, or I'd have 4 identical log cabin blocks. I decided the log cabin block would be the center of the quilt.
This would also mean I'd have to make more blocks, as 4x6 doesn't have a center block. 5x5 does, but that's a square quilt and not a great deal larger than the 4x6 one.

I decided to make mine 5x7 blocks, which would give me a 115 x 155 cm quilt (using 10 cm border and 5 cm sashing between the blocks). I would need 35 blocks.
I've just finished sewing my 18th block, which means I'm just halfway.
The other blocks we will not be getting in the workshop have already been picked out. It means I will not be participating with the class, instead just sewing on my other blocks while the others work on sewing their blocks to triangles and getting an important lesson on picking out coordinating fabrics. I've only one class to go on the 28th. Dorry doesn't mind that I'm doing mine differently, but she was a little hesitant at first because she thought I wanted her to calculate how much fabric I'd need for the sashing. Since my drawing is to scale I am pretty sure I can manage.


Including free coffee stain!

I already finished at least one of each block we're getting in the workshop. Here they are, showing each fabric I intend to use in the blocks: Ninepatch, Windmill, a version of the Drunkard's path called Jockey cap or Millstone, the Log Cabin, an unnamed block that is probably the Ninepatch Star, and the Churn Dash.
The above picture also shows the fabric combinations I keep for each block. One dark/medium dark, two light/dark combos and one light/medium dark combination. If that makes sense. Each block is sewn in these colour combo's, but I will have to work out how to go about the blocks that need three fabrics combined. There are several of those coming up.

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