quiltmom04

Has anyone made a quilt or wallhanging with different sized blocks. I mean ones that are MEANT to be different sized - not ones that ended up different, but weren't supposed to be. I'd love to have ideas for setting. Thanks!

ktbb

I have = used scraps and orphan blocks to do a quilt for a niece. Turned out really nice. What questions do you have?

quilting cat

I made a kite quilt about 28 years ago, using a butterfly quilt on the front of Quilter's Newsletter as inspiration. My then-3yo DD helped choose the kite pictures, as the quilt was for her first twin bed.
As I remember, blocks were all multiples of a common rectangle -- some two high, some two wide, some two x two, and the largest 3x3.

samifel

Yep, I just sash them out to to fit, I sometimes do them all sashed to one uniform size, but I often just lay the blocks out the wat I like them and them just sash them together.

ckcowl

yes a couple of them...i love quilts put together this way best! see if i can put a couple sample pics up...maybe ones in the works but you will see the idea.
my favorite one i do not have a picture of...probably why in my mind it is the best quilt i ever made...it was a santa clause quilt with all different sized blocks...gosh that quilt turned out magical! anyway...off of that and onto sampler pics :thumbup:

jdiane318

All blocks need to have a home and it is't that hard to lay them out the way you want them, then decide what size sashings and stips you need to make the pieces whole.

MTS

About 7 years ago, my friends and I did a Round Robin inspired by the book "Setting Solutions" by Sharyn Craig.

The rules were kind of convoluted, but at the end of 5 rounds, there were 14 blocks of all sizes for each participant - 4 made by the owner and the rest by the group. Mind you, the group only got to see one of those 4 original blocks when making theirs.

The point was to have 14 blocks of different sizes made by 5 people, and the only thing they had in common was ONE fabric, which they had to use - even if just a smidgen - in the blocks they made.

Like I said, convoluted.

The last round - well, the last person in the rotation had to make a quilt top - a finished quilt top (with borders, not quilted).

It was great fun, and a fabulous learning experience as we all had not been quilting very long.

Here are the quilts , picture taken on the day of the big reveal: (there are 7 so give me time to upload them_

I made the Lone Star for one of the participants, and I received the Dark Blue Graphic quilt. I was one happy camper

MTS

And I can't stop recommending the book "Setting Solutions" enough. It's the only quilt book I actually read.
She has a fabulous example starting on page 79(?) about starting with blah blue and white star blocks. Meh.

And then what she does with them. It doesn't matter if it's your taste or not, the way she transformed those blocks into a fabulous quilt was amazing.

One of my all time favorite quilt books. Worth every penny.

quiltbugs

I've made several that way . . . I love quilts with different size blocks.

Here is one from several years ago I did (Fons and Porter Americana Sampler), and the poor thing is still sitting here with no binding. I am ashamed. :oops:

craftybear

cute pictures thanks for sharing