leftover school house block--help me make into a wall hanging or lap quilt
I want to use what will be a 12-inch finished (leftover from another project) school house block in the center of a lap quilt or wall hanging for a friend. I don't want to take away from the center block, but I don't know what kind of blocks to surround it with. (I don't want to make more school houses!) I want it to finish at about 36 inches. If I want it larger, I'll add a border.
I started out thinking of using four patch blocks, in muslin plus blue & green scrap fabrics. Then I thought about an Irish chain pattern, but I don't know how I'd handle that--guess I would have to draw it out. Any other thoughts on what blocks to use? The house block is made with muslin and light & medium greens. Thank you for any suggestions. |
I would do a search on Google Images for medallion quilts for ideas.
To keep everything in scale, I would tend toward several small pieced borders, rather than one large one: pinwheels, 4 or 9 patches HSTs arranged in a sawtooth design etc. |
You could make it into a sixteen inch block with sashings and make a pillow cover with it. zipper added to the backing fabric and you are done.
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oWhat about gold star blocks surrounding the school house. I am thinking if the Wacky Star blocks from Quiltville free patterns in a nice rich gold. I used to love getting a gold star on my school work.
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What about something like the one in the following link. Since you don't want to do more SH blocks, perhaps you couls do goldstars(as suggested by Tartan) for the 4 corners.
http://blog.shopmartingale.com/wp-co...eir-Quilts.jpg |
Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
(Post 6750264)
I would do a search on Google Images for medallion quilts for ideas.
To keep everything in scale, I would tend toward several small pieced borders, rather than one large one: pinwheels, 4 or 9 patches HSTs arranged in a sawtooth design etc. I do have just one other school house orphan block. I might make that one into a pillow, nativetexan. That would mean one less orphan. :) Gold fabric stars would go well with the green house fabric. I like the red school house wall hanging, too. I always liked sawtooth star blocks. Thanks for the ideas, Tartan and Tapper. |
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