Wednesday, October 12, 2011

September and October Blocks

Here you will find a terribly belated picture of the September block! It's a fun one to piece, using the partial-seams method, which you probably already know having pieced it for our October meeting. (I'm very sorry for the problems this delay may have caused you.)


So here then, without further adieu, is October's block. You can see that is is a double-chain block (the squares that run through both diagonals). And it is also a quick-pieced block.

And here is a simple quilt design from this block. Each block is repeated and rotated to form the secondary patterns established by the two chains.


I wanted the chains to be a stronger element so I created an alternative value study of the block. In this, you can see there is one dark chain and one light chain. The remainder of the block is similar to a Log Cabin with one half dark and the remaining half light.

When we use this value study to create the same layout, you can see how a very strong chain pattern emerges. It reminds me of argyle. This would be a very fast quilt to make because you could use strip-pieced methods to speed the construction. It's on the pile of quilts I'd like to make. If you make one before me, please share!