I hope.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Just knowing I have Cross and X block possibilities in the back of my mind, will help me get through the Lollypop Trees process. ![]() There’s always failure when you don’t see it through fully.” ![]() And then it works out, because of the commitment. I heard an interview with Andrew Zuckerman on Swiss Miss’ Creative Mornings series and he said “I hate every project three months in. To cut them so that the bias is on the inside and the straight-of-grain along the edge, you must start with an oversize square and cut it on an X. I wonder if anyone else is like me–that even when you’re working on a project, you need a spark now and again to keep interest. Watch on Triple Play: X's & O's Quilt Tutorial with Jenny Doan Misty Doan Natalie Earnheart We have a new tradition here at Missouri Star: Triple Play Once a month, Jenny, Misty, and Natalie each demonstrate their own, unique take on a favorite block, technique, or template. Or–just just cut squares 2.5.” I’ll probably stick with the 7 1/2-inch blocks because I like the repetition of the small blocks. So, I checked her measurements–they are fine–so what I saw constructed may have been others not being careful, or using incorrect measurements.įor a 10″ block, the templates (with seam allowances included) look like this, with that long center strip 2.5″ x 6.5″, the square measuring 4.5″ and the other small blocks 2.5.” My program prints out the snowball blocks as two triangles, which I cut out and tape together to get the measurement. But this is a five-segmented block, so the measurements are more true if they are done in units of five: 5″ block, 7.5,” 10″ block etc. I realized part of the trouble many of the blocks I found on the web seemed to be a 7″ block. I kept looking at the blocks on Flikr and noticed that the angled wedge didn’t always line up properly into the cross in the middle. Somebody with a blog named Badskirt has developed a tutorial for this, and although the pictures are spot on, I am doing some wondering about the measurements. This interest in an old block by Nancy Cabot was apparently generated by Setsuko Inagawa’s quilt: There’s lots of potential for novelty fabrics and word fabrics, and cool prints. I wasnt able to get to quilting it till this weekend since life got a little busy. ![]() It’s nice to feel some enthusiasm for a new idea–that always gets my hands into the fabric. I finally was able to finish up the xs & os quilt. These are from Stawberrylicious’ photo stream, but couldn’t locate her blog (I admit to being dumb untutored about Flikr, yessirree). I like these blocks because it’s obvious you can use scraps and whatever, so long as you use a bland background and differentiate the cross fabrics from the X fabrics. I found the Flikr pool if you want to see some more. These two are made by a quilter in London, and these photos are from her blog. So, in exploring my really overwhelming list of blogs in my Google Reader, I began to see this block appear: In my last post I talked about Zombie Quilt Night.
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