I am hoping this will be a fun, easy to make block for everyone. No points to match, no trimming to do, just choose a dark solid or soldish fabric, pair it with a loud busy print, and start cutting! We will be doing a two-at-a-time construction; please do not sew your two parts together, I want to mix everyone's up!
My sample blocks ended up a bit bigger than intended, but I have adjusted the fabric requirements so each of your finished sections should be around 8 inches on a side. A bit bigger or smaller is fine, it doesn't need to end up square, and no need to trim before sending.
Fabric:
1 - 9 inch square of your darkest solid or solid-like fabric. Black if you have it, but any dark fabric will work.
1 - 9 inch square of a loud, busy print. Go wild. Really, anything goes.
Steps:
1 - place your print fabric right side up on top of your solid fabric
2 - Make a cut anywhere (ignore that I turned the fabric wrong-side down. I made a mistake, but forgot to take a picture of it the right way!).
3 - Take the smaller piece of the print fabric and swap it with the smaller piece of solid fabric. Sew the seam on each piece so you have two new squares:
4 - Place these two on top of each other, and make another cut, and swap the pieces again:
5 - Sew the seam:
Repeat until you like how it looks; please do at least four cuts. (Repeat is just stack, cut, swap, sew.) The points are very unlikely to match up, especially after the third cut. Don't worry about it. Press the seams whichever way you prefer; they tend to get a bit messy after the third cut. Again, don't worry about it.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I am looking forward to what you come up with!
-Jennifer
1 comment:
Kind of IMPROV!!! Fun! Will get to it soon!
Valorie
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