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Quilt Block Ninety-Eight - Peace and Plenty!

1/24/2014

Peace and Plenty is another full pinwheel quilt block. Again you are sewing triangles together. It is important to match all your points. This is not a difficult block but I think it looks impressive. Of course, this block is from my favorite quilt book, "Around the Block with Judy Hopkins". Judy made this block with just two fabrics, a light and a dark. I chose to use four fabrics because I wanted to show the secondary pinwheel (the green fabric).

Pinwheels are definitely one of my favorite blocks to use for a baby quilt. There are so many different pinwheel blocks. Here are several I have made:

Brave World

Beginner's Delight

Double Pinwheel

Electric Fan

Louisiana

Rosebud

Turnstile

Windmill Square

X-Quartet

Yankee Puzzle

Year's Favorite

If you like pinwheels as much as I do, I hope you'll give them a try. See see my baby quilts with pinwheels, click here.

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Happy quilting!

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Hen and Chickens, Quilt block Ninety-Seven!

1/22/2014

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Hens and Chicks is a confident beginner block. I love the design the block makes when the four blocks are sewn together. Now that I know what the blocks will look like when I sew them together, the next time I will use a variety of colors. I think it would make a wonderful baby quilt or child's quilt. You could even play around with the straight pieces, having them two different colors and make a weave effect.

Pattern for Hen and Chickens four blocks.

I made this block into a "Lovie Lap Quilt". I have the "Lovie Lap Quilts" for sale here on my site.

I hope you give this quilt block a try and have fun with it. Play around and see what designs you can come up with.

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See you next time with block number 98!

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Quilt Block Ninety-Six, Ladies' Wreath

1/11/2014

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Ladie's Wreath is nothing more than half square triangles. You can do so many different quilt blocks once you have mastered the half square triange (which is very easy to master). Judy Hopkins did a lot of quilt blocks with the half square triangle incorporated into them. Sometimes I find it tedious to square up each half square triangle, but if I don't, I always end up with my points not matching.

Ladies' Wreath Quilt Block

Ladies' Wreath four blocks sewn together.

Ladies' Wreath Four Quilt Blocks

I think I would have been bored if I just did this quilt in two fabrics. I chose to make this quilt into a baby quilt so I had a lot of fun with the colors. Here's what the finished quilt looks like!

I had a lot of fun free motion quilting this quilt. I used the same pattern through out the quilt, a feathered shell design, which happens to be one of my favorite designs.

I learned how to free motion quilt from Leah Day's classes on Craftsy. I highly recommend them if you are interested in free motion quilting.

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Quilt Block Ninety-Eight - Peace and Plenty!

Hen and Chickens, Quilt block Ninety-Seven!

Quilt Block Ninety-Six, Ladies' Wreath

Ladies' Wreath Quilt Block

Ladies' Wreath Four Quilt Blocks

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