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Birthday Two Block Quilts

6/26/2021

 

Tech Know Quilter Members Share Their Designs and Learnings

In the private Tech Know Quilter's Facebook group, I ask members to share their favorite designs for the month along with sharing what they learned.

​Tech Know Quilters is a membership of Electric Quilt 8 owners who are mastering Electric Quilt through online training.

There is currently a 3 day flash sale if you are interested in joining Tech Know Quilters.  Enrollment is open through Monday, Jun 27.  

​I hope you enjoy the designs by current Tech Know Quilter members.
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Rhonda Goss Quilt designed to be used with 6" and 12" Accuquilt die sets
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Lynne Maramieri I took the Bargello class this month (May 2021) and this is my Bargello Quilt Design. I am amazed at how much I have learned in 5 months! Thank you Kari Schell!
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Linda Carlson I took the Masters Design Your Own 9 Patch class. The first photo is a quilt I created after lesson 1. It reminds me of a weather station in outer space.
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Linda Carlson The second quilt I created after the 7th lesson, the last using a combination of blocks created throughout the class.
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Irene Floyd This month I took the Advanced EasyDraw class and learned so much! This quilt began with a Mariner's Compass block I created in Lesson 7. I added borders after completing Lesson 13, Fractured Borders.
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Julie Pedersen Here is my quilt for this challenge. I used blocks from other lessons and merged them with blocks from Lesson 7. I enjoyed playing to see what they looked like when you merged them together.
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Candy Phipps Pfeifer This is my quilt from the EasyDraw Kaleidoscope class.
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Linda Carlson Here's the quilt I created using the Geo-2, Jot Dot and the black print is from Tula's Linework collection. The last border is an actual border print.
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Moira Hewitt I took the Introduction to Applique. I am somewhat amazed that I really enjoyed it. I thought it would be very twee and not for me, but learned how to make it more my style.
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Zdenka Nemethova I learned a lot in May: I took both Easy Draw Introduction and Kaleidoscopes classes. I love playing with the blocks.
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Dotty Smalley I was in the design your own nine patch class. Although we had used the Clone, Rotate, and Merge block techniques in other classes, this class reinforced how easy and fast blocks can be designed using these. Here is a simple Sampler that I designed and am making as a lap quilt. I love red, white, and blue and star blocks.
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Kristy Goodin Soard My quilt for the Master's May 2021 apply what you learned. I used the BB+ Unequal nine patch with small center, blocks with curves blocks.
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Kristy Goodin Soard ... ...then I saw the Art Gallery Fabric line called Legendary and downloaded it to try.

Design a Two Block Quilt Challenge

Tech Know Quilter members who have completed twelve months of Tech Know Quilter's class are eligible for the Masters program.  They are given an opportunity to participate in a Masters challenge each month.

In May 2021,their added challenge was to design a quilt with only two blocks in it.
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Linda Carlson I used and unequal 9 patch large center and an equal 9 patch to create this quilt. I have the BioGeo-2 and Spectastic fabrics and thought these two blocks would show them off.
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Curryanne Hostetler I use two 9 patch blocks and then modified them
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Kristy Goodin Soard I used two blocks from like an hour glass nine patch blocks in BB+. I modified them both and used them both in Kari's On Point Layout 2 Pre-made quilt layout from class. I created a merge block with just the flower for the Blocks border.
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Kristy Goodin Soard ...and then I can't stop myself from playing a little more with the border.
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Dotty Smalley Using the blocks on the left, here is the on-point quilt I designed.
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Julie Pedersen This month is flying by. Here is what I came up with for my challenge quilt. I just realized that they would make great quilts to showcase that special fabrics that you prefer not to cut into small pieces.
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Julie Pedersen ...and then I decided to alter it and made this one. They have more of a modern quilt vibe than I am used to designing.
Tech Know Quilters is a membership of Electric Quilt 8 owners who are mastering Electric Quilt through online training.

There is currently a 3 day flash sale if you are interested in joining Tech Know Quilters.  Flash sale ends Monday, Jun 27 at midnight.  

Birthday Two Block Quilts

After admiring the quilts submitted in the Masters two block challenge, I pondered what a quilt would look like if we selected two blocks from the same subcategory in BlockBase Plus and auditioned them in both a horizontal and on-point layout.
Here are the guidelines to create your own Birthday Two Block Quilt. 
  • Under the Four Patch category in BlockBase Plus, select the subcategory to match the month of your birthday.
  • For the blocks--select the number that matches the date of your birthday for your first block.  If the date is larger than the number of blocks in the category, use the first digit of the date for block #1 and the 2nd digit of the date for block #2.  If that doesn't work, use the month of your birthday to select the 2nd block.  Or randomly select a 2nd block from the same sub-category.
  • Create both a horizontal and an on point layout quilt using the two blocks.  Feel free to recolor your blocks.
When I tried this, I really wasn't super excited about the 36 square category -- but I decided to persevere (rather than making up new rules), just to see what the concept produced.  Let me know what you think.
The blocks from the video came from BlockBase Plus.  The category was 08 Four Patch.  The subcategory was 03 Thirty-Six Squares. 

The first selected blocks was Brackman ID 1155 (Spinning Arrows by Nancy Cabot).

The second selected block was Brackman ID 1158.  It was published (without a name) by Woman's Circle in 1963 and with the name Flower Garden Path by Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (using flower garden prints).
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Brackman ID 1155
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Brackman ID 1158
If you don't have Block Base Plus, consider selecting two blocks from one of the categories in the Electric Quilt library.  This will work best if the grids are consistent for the selected blocks.

Set your Birthday blocks in a horizontal layout and an on point layout.  You can see that the huge difference that comes from just swapping out the layouts.
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Block Base Plus Birthday blocks set in an On Point Layout.
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Block Base Plus Birthday blocks set in a Horizontal Layout.
I would love to see your two block quilt.  Share you pictures in the Learning EQ Facebook Group.

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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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