BEGGAR BLOCK, 6″, Light

Since it’s the last day of the financial year, today, I thought it only fitting that we make Beggar Block!

This in one of the earlier Ladies Art Company blocks (#86), so it was in print as early as c. 1895. It has been republished under the same name a number of times (Ruby McKim, Kansas City Star, 1929, and Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune in 1933). It has also gone by the names: Cats and Mice (Jane Allen, Illinois State Register, 1933), Homespun (Nancy Page, Birmingham News, 1939), Over and Under Quilt (Nancy Page, Detroit Free Press, 1943), Spool and Bobbins or Spools and Bobbins (Nancy Cabot, Chicago Tribune, 1936). This block certainly got recycled again and again in the newspaper columns!

Another similar block, with one of the units in the centre square rather than a plain block has also gone by this name: Beggar’s Blocks or Beggar’s Choice (Nancy Page, Birmingham News, 1934), as well as Under and Over (Nancy Page, Birmingham News, 1941).

Download June 30 instructions (as .pdf).

July 1

MAPLE LEAF, 3″, Dark

Today is Canada Day. Happy birthday Canada, and a big shout out to our Canadian quilters. Today’s block had to be Maple Leaf! It is just the right size for a 3″, dark block, so pull out your dark fabrics again.

Maple Leaf was originally published by Clara Stone in 1906; but was also picked up by the Kansas City Star in 1938.

Download July 1 instructions (as .pdf)

July 2

CLOWN’S CHOICE, 3″, Dark

Carrie Hall and Rose Kretsinger first published his block in The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America in 1935.

Download July 2 instructions (as .pdf).

July 3

TEMPLE COURT, 6″, Light

We have only a few 6″, light blocks to complete! This is a very recent block, in quilting terms. it was published in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine in 1973. Please play with the colouring; it has many possibilities. Here’s the original colouring:

Download July 3 instructions (as .pdf).

July 4

FOURTH JULY, 3″, Dark

It’s Independence Day for the USA! And there is a specific block to celebrate: July Fourth was first made available by Nancy Page in the Birmingham News on July 3, 1934. It was later published in 1957 by the Kansas City Star under the heading ‘A Quilt Takes Patriotic Hues’.

A big shout out to all our quilters in the USA. Enjoy your day!

Download July 4 instructions (as .pdf).

July 5

STAR AND PINWHEELS, 6″, Light

Lots of movement in today’s block. It is Star and Pinwheels, first published by Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune in 1957.

Download July 5 instructions (as .pdf).

July 6

SQUARE SURROUNDED, 6″, Light

The last 6″, light block for the border! Today I have chosen a block to use up some of the light scraps you have generated, before we move onto dark blocks again. So gather all those off-cuts and odd bits for Square Surrounded.

This block is from Judy Hopkins book (2008), and is very similar to a block called The Square Deal, first published by the Kansas City Star in 1932.

If you want to make The Square Deal, just cut an extra four pieces of your light to medium scraps 1¼” x 1¼”, and apply them as covered corners to the centre square, D.

Download July 6 instructions (as .pdf).

First Light Border

LAYOUT

Вы уже завершили 72 6 x 6 дюймов легкие блоки
1. Выкладывайте ваши 6” х 6” блоки в таком порядке, чтобы
вас радует.
На фото расположение является только указанием.
Соображения для вашего макета:
• темные тона бросаются в глаза в этом
границы; распределить их равномерно по границе
• баланс цветов (особенно важно, если вы
ввели дополнительные цвета, или использовать обрывков
цвета)
• баланс ориентации; распространять блоки с
очевидно, среди площади-установить Диагональ те
• баланс сложности; распределить в значительной степени собрана
блоки с более простых
• выравнивание шва; где возможно, организуйте свой
блоки, так что Вы не должны совпадать швы, для
пример места с сеткой 3 x 3 блока рядом с 4 х 4 сетки
блок
2. Присоединяйтесь к четырем группам 7 х 2 блоков по протяженные границы
3. Присоединяйтесь к четырем группам 4 х 4 блоков по углам.
4. Соберите кусочки, как будто это был гигантский 9-патч.

Download First Light Border Layout instructions (as .pdf).

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