In your best Monday Night Football voice . . .
Are you ready for some IMPROV?? Of course you are because this is really easy improv and remember, it’s supposed to look wonky!!
This block is an adaptation from the book, Cultural Fusion Quilts by Sujata Shah—with her permission. She came to our guild a couple of years ago and I fell in love with her approach to quilting. I had lost my sew-joe and her kind, encouraging and soulful presentation set me right. All she asked for this permission is that when posting we tag her on instagram @therootconnection and her book #culturalfusionquilts.
We’ll be making two blocks with opposite color placement. I’d love to see your brightest/lemony greens and grays. All I ask is that there is strong contrast between the green and gray.. Here’s my color pull:
As you can see—lemony green is a thing!
Cutting:
Cut one strip of each fabric (green and gray) 5 1/2” wide and 20” long.
Stack the fabric strips RIGHT SIDES UP
*Before you make the improv cut, it helps to press the stack to get the strips to stick together for the cut.
Place the stack on your cutting board, aligning edges and corners and then slice the stack lengthwise with a gentle curve.
*It helps to start the slice for about two inches and then hold the bottom edge to keep the stack in place.
Sew the green slices to the gray slices. If you’ve never sewn curves before—no worries. This is a very gentle curve that doesn’t need to be perfect in any way. Start with the convex strip on the bottom, match the concave piece at the top edge, sew a few inches then match the edges again, repeat until the whole strip is pieced.
Press—it is totally ok to use a little persuasion with the iron to get things flat.
Place the pieced strips units on the cutting mat and trim this long piece to 4 1/2” wide. In this trimming,
I do a straightening cut on both sides of the strip then you can decide which side or both sides to trim down more depending on where you like the color and curve placement. THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY!! Just, your way!! Live it up a little!!
Next, trim the strip sets into 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 units.
Arrange the units into 2 whirligig blocks. Reverse the color placement for the second block.
Sew the units into a block. Each block should measure 8 1/2”.
Press however you like! TA DA!
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