Friday, June 6, 2014

Switch

At Canberra Quilters we have a "small group" (which is actually quite large) of modern quilters that meets once a month. They are fabulous. This month I decided we might play with the Cheyenne block. It's a simple 16-patch block using squares and HSTs and you all know how much I love a HST. Heck we ALL love HSTs in this group. Check out what we made as a group recently!

This is the Cheyenne block I put together on my design wall as an example for the group.

Variations on a theme

In my email to the group I said value is important! And promptly ignored my own advice. For my next block I will have to concentrate more on the dark value bits being darker. I have a couple of mediums in there (the pink spot and the yellow pez for example) that mean the donut (as we call it around here) doesn't pop as much as it could.

While I was playing on the wall I realised that with a bit of flipping and switching, I could create a variety of different blocks.  This one is a bit of a Churndash.

Variations on a theme

This one would look good en masse - like pointy columns

Variations on a theme

And I particularly like this one - where the low-medium volume issue doesn't matter so much.

Variations on a theme

I'm enjoying playing with this so much that I'm thinking of Starting a New Thing (SNT). Heaven help me! But I do have a couple of friends who have significant birthdays coming up, and I think these fabrics would appeal to one of them in particular.

I might have to make a few more squares and HSTs and see how they look grouped. This will be a fun quilt to make.







10 comments:

  1. Another day, another feast of fabulousness. What a delight to trawl through your stash.
    Jennifer

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    1. Aw thanks Jen! (you'll notice I changed the comments rules for ya) xx

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  2. *cough* Startitis *cough cough*

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    1. I'm pretty sure it's curable by starting more. And like I said the other day - no guilt.

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  3. Ooh they are all lovely! I hope your back is better and looking at all this lovely fabric is better than any drug.

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    1. Thanks Kirsty! Playing on the design wall is all I've really been able to do! Slowly getting better, thanks to drugs (boo) and pool exercise (yay). Thanks for asking.

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    1. So much fun! And a friend is going to help make the quilt with me! Who hoo!

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  5. I have so much to learn from you! Beautiful. Love the colour, love the black and white.

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