"Elegance" (a One Block Wonder)

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07-24-2011, 07:02 AM

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lylamarie

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I love it. This quilt has made me want to to a OBW as I had no desire to make one before. How much fabric does it take to make this quilt? Lylamarie

07-24-2011, 07:04 AM

#142

ChildoftheUniverse

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HOLY WOW!

07-24-2011, 07:05 AM

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Katrine

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Beautiful and a very fitting name! I have this fabric in the purple colour way - cut but not pieced yet. :D

Had to do lots of "turning" of triangles with this one - 12" repeat but even with the moving of the ruler on each strip, still ended up with too many almost identical blocks. And I love the purple colourway ...............so hurry up:lol:

Thanks for that cos I may not have noticed as I generally piece the stacks without looking. :shock:

Yep me too - but I had noticed when cutting the close similarity of alot of them so I made different "colour/feature" piles. Then laid each category in piles of their 6 pieces as cut so I could turn and play with them.
Also I said further up this one was one of the quickest I've done and I went with the first layout - I think the pre-sorting enabled that - I shall do it again!

07-24-2011, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by lylamarie

I love it. This quilt has made me want to to a OBW as I had no desire to make one before. How much fabric does it take to make this quilt? Lylamarie

You will need six repeats of the print pattern. Minimum of 12" repeat is okay but will only yield approx 57 blocks. So a repeat of 24" will give double that, but you obviously you are buying double the fabric length.
You really do need to get one of the One Block Wonder books by Maxine Rosenthal if you have never done one - you will then have all the info you need and an excellent pictorial instruction on how to select fabric, cut and construct.
See the special section on these, and Stack & Whack, Kaleidoscope quilts here (scroll half way down for the heading)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/virtual_section_list.jsp

07-24-2011, 07:21 AM

#145

ghquilter53

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I have some fabric very similar with all the hexagons made just need to get them on the design wall and sew them. Nice job. I teach the OBW class with the cubes as well.