Happy February! I hope 2025 is treating you well so far. This is my second year participating in Stash Bee and my first year as a co-leader. I’ve barely made a start on my blocks from last year, and I wanted to finish it before March... I don't think that's happening 🤦
For this month, we’ll be working on a simple block with only 2 colours. Last year I made a quilt as a present for my friends who got married, but I made 12 blocks too many! The 12 blocks were a bit too small for a quilt by themselves so they’ve sat around waiting for me to get up the motivation to make another few blocks to go with them. Then I thought, why not get you all to do it?
So, onto the instructions:
Colours:
This is inspired by bleak British beaches, so you’ll need up to 4 “sand” fabrics and up to 5 “ocean” fabrics. For sand, creams and beiges are ideal, but very light browns and greys might work too. For ocean, think navy, unsaturated blues, maybe a mid-to-dark grey. If they have nautical elements like boats and fish, even better!
This photo from September 2023 is enough to make me feel patriotic.
This was mostly made using Janet Clare’s “to the ocean” collection if you want to use that for inspiration.
If you can’t find 4/5 fabrics that work for each colour, a little repetition is fine.
Cutting instructions:
- Sand: 4 squares 5.5”
- Ocean: 4 rectangles 3.5”x5.5” and 1 square 3.5”
Piecing instructions:
Lay out your fabrics in a configuration you like. Piece together the rows going across first.
Then forget about your configuration, press any way that you feel like, and sew together the 3 rows.
And you’re done! Your block should finish at 13.5” square.
This is a super simple block, hopefully it’ll help you recover after Josie’s 😉 Thanks for your help! Not sure what I’ll do with the finished quilt, but I can burn that bridge when I get to it.
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