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Two Block Quilts

12/31/2022

 
It has been a busy week between the Panel Quilt webinars and open enrollment for Tech Know Quilters.  Now my time moves to primarily serving those in the Tech Know Quilter group.

I received a couple of notes from people who missed my e-mails regarding the Tech Know Quilter open enrollment during the last four days -- not exactly sure how that is possible but email providers seem to love putting my emails in spam and promotions folders.  And I heard that a few of you were traveling and not able to get to your emails.

If that is you, send me a note and I will send you a link to sign up.  We can still squeeze in a few new members before we start delivery of classes on Monday.  This will be the last time to lock in to 2022 pricing.

You can read more about the program here -- but the sign-up links have been taken down.

Two Block Quilts

Two times a month I do live help sessions with Tech Know Quilter members.  During the session on Thursday, one member was asking about working with blocks that don't quite work well together.  Maybe one uses a 7 x 7 grid and the other an 8 x 8.  While Electric Quilt can turn these all into a standard block size, the numbers on the rotary cutting chart start looking a bit scary.

We talked through how to resolve that issue. Since I  still had my panel quilt Electric Quilt 8 project open I demonstrated a process on how to design blocks that work well together. 

I started with one of the pieced border blocks from the Panel Quilt webinar.   Here is some background on drafting the block.  Just in case you missed the webinar.
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This block was drawn in EasyDraw with a width and height of 8 x 8.  

Set the snaps at 8 x 8 -- with snap to grid the only snap option turned on.

For the diamonds, you have flexibility in exactly where to put the horizontal and vertical lines.  I will typically modify the design to accommodate my favorite construction methods. 
Here was how I chose to draft the block.  I was thinking I would do 1-1/2" folded corners on 2-1/2" squares for the the "house" units.
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Alternatively, I could have drawn another line for a rectangle, flying geese unit, and two half square triangle units.

I love that EQ gives us the flexibility of deciding the way we want to piece a block.
Watch the video to see the process to draft the remaining blocks as quilt.
In todays video, I drafted the coordinating block using the same grid.
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Coordinating 8 x 8 grid block.
Add a binding to finish off a quilt that would be easy to piece.  This would make a great project Linus quilt -- or with some resizing (adjust the number of blocks horizontal and vertical), a quilt of valor.
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But I couldn't stop.  I began thinking about taking the modified 9-patch corner segments and create a pieced border that also works well with the pieced blocks in the center.
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Do you prefer the quilt with or without the pieced border?  Or maybe you have a different idea for a two block quilt.  Share your ideas in the Facebook group.
Two Block Quilt Learning EQ Facebook Post
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Happy quilting.

​Kari

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