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Nine Patch Merged Blocks

5/26/2017

 
This week found me playing in Easy Draw.  Enjoy the Electric Quilt tutorial below on Nine Patch Merged Blocks.  If you wish to expand your Easy Draw skill set, I have two classes starting in June.
Drafting Easy Draw Blocks using EQ7
Have you ever found the “perfect” block online.  But then realized you wanted to piece it a different way.  Maybe you want rotary cutting instructions or a foundation pattern.  Or maybe you want a different size to incorporate into a different quilt.  With Electric Quilt you can redraft these blocks.  This instructor led online class will focus on how to “read a block” and then come up with the most efficient way to draft it with Electric Quilt.  Class starts Thursday, June 15th.

​Cost:  $80
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Bonus:  Enroll by May 31 and receive a 20 minute private consultation with Kari.


I will also be teaching this class at the MN Quilt Show in Duluth -- June 9th.  This class still has openings.

Foundation Drawing Using EQ7

Be the first to learn the ins and outs of creating foundation patterns for paper piecing.  This brand new instructor led online class starts Monday, June 5, 2017.

​Cost:  $100
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Bonus:  Enroll by May 31 and receive a 20 minute private consultation with Kari to draft a foundation pattern from your own favorite photograph.

Merged 9 Patch Blocks Plus Quilts

One thing that is fun to do when creating new blocks is to combine two blocks together (or maybe even three).

This week I played with taking a couple of blocks and setting them into a 9 patch block. 
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Five Patch Chain from EQ Library
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Providence from EQ Library
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Providence Chain designed by Kari Schell
I could have set up a 15 x 15 grid and redrafted everything.  But I was looking for an easier way.  Two challenges I needed to overcome were:
  • EQ limits resizing of lines and segments to whole percentage points (i.e. no 33.333%) so I couldn't pick up the line segments, resize and plop them in a segment of the nine-patch.
  • EQ won't let us use a 9 patch to merge blocks -- so I couldn't use this feature to force the resize as well.

When meeting with a private client yesterday, the light bulb came on and I realized how I could make the merge block feature work on a nine-patch.

I will share how in this weeks Electric Quilt video tutorial.

Here are the two quilts shared in the video.
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Providence Chain in 3 x 3 Layout
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Providence Chain with Sashing
Here is another combination that I successfully tested with the technique.
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Monkey Wrench Block from EQ Library
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Square in a Square block. (I am sure this is in the library -- but I drew this one.)
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Monkey Wrench with a Square within a Square block designed by Kari Schell
Layout for this was On Point.  

​Settings:
Block Size:  15 x 15
Border #1:  1.75" Long Horizontal
Border #2:  Border Blocks 5", 6 blocks horizontal and vertical

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Sashing Block
Fabrics used in these quilts were all from ​​Andover's Floral Spendor collection.
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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shirley Seo
5/26/2017 01:49:02 pm

this was so cool1

Zlatka
5/27/2017 05:32:23 am

Thank you, Kari for your easy to follow instructions and videos. Love the design with the snail trail set on point (it was to be expected, given you are the "on point quilter" ;-) ).

Vicki in MN
5/30/2017 01:02:58 pm

Thanks Kari, I always appreciate how much you share about EQ!

Amy C
6/16/2017 01:09:07 pm

This is amazing! I was in Barb's class, and was wavering on whether or not to move to yours before the conference - I wish I had because this is what I had been hoping to learn! Thank you for the tutorials!


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