Complimenting blocks?
#22
Sounds like a really fun challenge rootyr. Quilt block combos with secondary surprises are my favorite - especially when they use two blocks. I can't wait to look up all the suggestions you've gotten here.
I hope when you all present your challenge quilts that you can share some of your favorite results on the QB with all of us!
It just so happens that a couple of weeks back I ran across one combo while fooling around with EQ7 and my hubby asked me to make it into a lap quilt for him.
It combines Goose in the Pond with Fifty four-forty or Fight. You get a really nice secondary circle formed. Here's a mock up so you can see what I mean:
I hope when you all present your challenge quilts that you can share some of your favorite results on the QB with all of us!
It just so happens that a couple of weeks back I ran across one combo while fooling around with EQ7 and my hubby asked me to make it into a lap quilt for him.
It combines Goose in the Pond with Fifty four-forty or Fight. You get a really nice secondary circle formed. Here's a mock up so you can see what I mean:
#23
Jan you have so many great insights on how it works here! You always do!
Judi - I started fooling around with the two blocks you suggested - Snowball and Jack in the Pulpit.
First I substituted Jack in the Pulpit for Goose in the Pond in my pattern shown in above post. You get a similar secondary circle effect with a lot less piecing. Loved the results!
Then I tried it with the Snowball block in two different versions. I hope I chose the right type of snowball block. It too came out really neat. (Please pardon the hasty color and border choices)
Rootyr, I thought you might like to see them too:
Judi - I started fooling around with the two blocks you suggested - Snowball and Jack in the Pulpit.
First I substituted Jack in the Pulpit for Goose in the Pond in my pattern shown in above post. You get a similar secondary circle effect with a lot less piecing. Loved the results!
Then I tried it with the Snowball block in two different versions. I hope I chose the right type of snowball block. It too came out really neat. (Please pardon the hasty color and border choices)
Rootyr, I thought you might like to see them too:
#24
I think I'm visually impaired - meaning I don't see secondary designs until I look really hard. I didn't see the circles until I stared at one block in the middle and then the circles magically appeared. Which is why I have to have a pattern or get my daughter to help me. She sees the blocks very well.
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Perhaps you are too close to the design, I mean in proximity. Turn your back to the design and look at it through a mirror (like you would if you were checking the back of your hairdo). Or use the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
Distancing yourself from the design is a quick way of finding problems, too, such as if a block is set/turned wrong.
Jan in VA
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Here is a neat trick to finding a block with this trait. If it has unmatching diagonal corners it will make a secondary pattern......for instance, maple leaf, attic windows, rolling star, Jacob's ladder, fox and geese, crosses and losses, buckeye beauty, Hays corner.
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
#27
Thanks Jan, I'll try that. My daughter can look at a quilt & actually "see" the block as in there's a triangle, square, & here is the whole block. Guess I'm just dense. But I do have one of those little devices to look thru for your quilts and I will try that next time.
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Misseva I couldn't see it either and finally snuck up on it and there it was. To my eye, those patterns are too complex. I can't find a resting spot for my eye.
Sure makes the world interesting in how we see and respond to things.
Sure makes the world interesting in how we see and respond to things.
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Have you ever gone to this website and played at the quilt block playground? http://www.freequiltpatterns.info I think it is amazing! It will help you see your blocks before you put them together. A million blocks! That's enough for me.
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