Pictionary Quilt Part 1

One of the games our family enjoys playing is Pictionary.  This became the inspiration for a recent challenge for my Tech Know Quilter Masters members.

How do you play the game Pictionary?

Players roll the die that determine how many spaces they move on the game board and draw a card, finding the secret word on the card that matches the category from the game board. One player sketches a picture representing the word to try to get their teammate to guess the word within 1 minute.

TKQ Masters Pictionary Challenge

For my challenge to the Tech Know Quilter Masters members, participants were told to use an online Pictionary Word Generator to generate three words. 

And then to select one of the words. 

And use that word to design a quilt. 

We had a fair number of over-achievers who decided to take it a step further and design a quilt using all three words.  As you can probably guess, we had some pretty wild and crazy quilts. 

​I love the creativity of this group.

Elly da Silva Here is my quilt with the words Beach, Pen and Camera. Kari thanks for this challenging challenge.

Dianna Carter I had the mouth, worm, and the crab.

Roxanna Khoury My words were knee, fork, and Roly Poly

Julie Pedersen Here is my challenge quilt for Giraffe, Bat, and Pillow. I used the auto borders feature that we incorporated into a recent quilt. I thought it looked appropriate for my giraffe.

Terry McCaskey Here is my representational challenge quilt from the words "slide, fire, angel"...or my "Fallen Angels " quilt.

Edith Craig My 3 words were bug, pie and hat. I made ants on a picnic eating pie and wearing baseball caps.

Kristy Goodin Soard My rabbit prompt brought to mind a rabbit quilt I designed to hang on my Ackland Table Stand. I need to make this happen.

Renae Frank Butler My words were Octopus, Cookies and people. So my octopus is making cookies for the imaginary people.

Reproducing My Pictionary Quilt

I also challenged myself to go through the challenge.

My words were

• Swimming Pool
• Doll
• Cherry

Pictionary Generator

Here is my final quilt. 

Kari's Pictionary Quilt with Swimming Pool, Doll and Cherry

For the swimming pool, I decided to create a pieced block that I placed in an on point setting.  The doll and cherries were added as applique elements to the quilt.

In this blog post, I will cover all the pieced elements of the quilt.

​In next weeks blog post, I will cover the applique elements.

The swimming pool could be simplified:

• Use a single fabric for the water.
• Use a single fabric for the edges of the pool.
• Use a single fabric for the background fabric (in the four corners).
• Use a single fabric for the borders.

I decided to make the quilt more interesting and added simple piecing for each of these elements.

I drew the edges of the swimming pool as a stand alone block and then used the merge block option under Serendipity to add the water.

Here were my blocks from the video.

Pictionary Pieced Blocks

Water Block 26" x 26" comprised of 2" half square triangles

Swimming Pool Edge 3" x 30" pieced with 1" and 3" wide strips (finished size). Each border is 2" wide.

Merged Swimming Pool Block 30" x 30". When merging blocks -- there is no need to recolor.

Quarter Block drafted in EasyDraw (30" x 30"). Only the pieced portion of the block will be visible in the final quilt.

Challenges in drawing the half square triangle block

When you watch the video, you will notice that when duplicating a section of half square triangles and placing in other quadrants on the block, I ended up with the dreaded Polygon error because of some overlapping lines.

If that happens to you, there is no need to panic.  This is easily fixable as you will see in the video. 

The one thing that is critical when pasting lines that end up outside the boundaries of the block (which I did in the video), you must delete them to ensure you don't corrupt your project file.

If you are worried, there is no need to copy and paste the lines in the upper left quadrant as I did in the video.  You can just draw all the half square triangles for the remaining quadrants -- with no lines extending outside the worktable.  I thought my approach was a bit faster -- but either would definitely work.

Pictionary Quilt

For the quilt, I used an on point layout with 1 block with the size of 30" x 30".

Pictionary On Point Layout

Change the first border to blocks.  

Change the size of border #1  to 2-1/2".

Set the number of blocks in border at 17" x 17".

Add a second border.  Change the size to 1/2" and the style to mitered.  This will be the binding.

Border #1 - Blocks. Each block will be 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" (finished size)

Here is the quilt from the video -- waiting for the applique.  

Pictionary Pieced Blocks and Layout

I think this layout and the blocks would be a great background for other quilts -- what would you do with these blocks?

Next week I plan to cover the applique for the quilt.

Feel free to post any pictures and comments in the Learning EQ Facebook Group.

Pictionary Quilt Post in the Learning EQ Facebook Group

​​Happy quilting.

​Kari

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