Quilt group challenge
09-10-2013, 12:03 AM
#21
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Hi everyone, thank you all so much for your kind replies- this is the wording from my grops website - re the challenge
Take your favourite block and make a small wall hanging with it.
Are you going to use it as it comes or flip it, enlarge or distort it, cut it up and re-arrange it, make it in a variety of different sizes, fabrics, techniques – just what are you going to do with it? The choice is yours! You can use any technique you like – hand or machine, piece it, appliqué, print, stamp, quilt it, layer & slash....
I thought I would try and do 6 inch log cabins and arrange them in a pleasing way - or hexagons ?
I did like your log cabin grannie annie. !
Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply !
Take your favourite block and make a small wall hanging with it.
Are you going to use it as it comes or flip it, enlarge or distort it, cut it up and re-arrange it, make it in a variety of different sizes, fabrics, techniques – just what are you going to do with it? The choice is yours! You can use any technique you like – hand or machine, piece it, appliqué, print, stamp, quilt it, layer & slash....
I thought I would try and do 6 inch log cabins and arrange them in a pleasing way - or hexagons ?
I did like your log cabin grannie annie. !
Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply !
Not my log cabin at all. I'm not that clever. I just love it for achieiving the 24 x 30.
These guidelines are quite different from the opening post.
09-10-2013, 12:04 AM
#22
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Re: your log cabin idea
How about piecing a picture of a log cabin, in the middle of your log cabin block? By making the center picture rectangular, instead of square, you could easily obtain your 24" x 30", while keeping it just one block. Here's a block I made, years ago (for future sampler-type quilt). The block is actually square but I was holding camera at an angle, to eliminate a shadow. Anyway, you could make the center "picture" wider or taller, to turn it into a rectangle, then add as many rows of "logs" as you need, for size.
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How about piecing a picture of a log cabin, in the middle of your log cabin block? By making the center picture rectangular, instead of square, you could easily obtain your 24" x 30", while keeping it just one block. Here's a block I made, years ago (for future sampler-type quilt). The block is actually square but I was holding camera at an angle, to eliminate a shadow. Anyway, you could make the center "picture" wider or taller, to turn it into a rectangle, then add as many rows of "logs" as you need, for size.
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09-10-2013, 12:54 AM
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Okay, Dotty. Your challenge, as I read it, is to take your favorite block and "change it up" a bit. (my words!)
I'm still trying to sell Nessie's log cabin in a log cabin. How about making 4 blocks, each 12" wide and 15" long. Top row-------for winter & spring
Bottom row---for summer and fall
..............or however you want to arrange them
Nessie's block has darks making the "grass" and lights making the sky. To carry some consistancy, make the top row (and the bottom) mirror images, having both skys toward the center of the row and the grass the outsides.
MAYBE
snowy white on whites for the lights on winter, with a brownish, greenish grass, mabye with flecks of white to show snow.
For spring, a sky blue with a lot of white, and more lime green grass showing new life.
For summer, a bit brighter blue with plenty of white, and regular old grassy greens for the grass.
For fall, sky pieces with more yellow tones and then golden tan with bits of fallen leaf colors
For the log cabin itself, perhaps stay in the golden, woody tones. Each season's cabin could have a slighlty differnt tone-----------indicating different sun intensities. And make the chimneys slightly different dark reds.
In fact, I considered making 4 seasons hanging when I first saw Nessie's log cabin.
I think you'd be up for some award.
I'm still trying to sell Nessie's log cabin in a log cabin. How about making 4 blocks, each 12" wide and 15" long. Top row-------for winter & spring
Bottom row---for summer and fall
..............or however you want to arrange them
Nessie's block has darks making the "grass" and lights making the sky. To carry some consistancy, make the top row (and the bottom) mirror images, having both skys toward the center of the row and the grass the outsides.
MAYBE
snowy white on whites for the lights on winter, with a brownish, greenish grass, mabye with flecks of white to show snow.
For spring, a sky blue with a lot of white, and more lime green grass showing new life.
For summer, a bit brighter blue with plenty of white, and regular old grassy greens for the grass.
For fall, sky pieces with more yellow tones and then golden tan with bits of fallen leaf colors
For the log cabin itself, perhaps stay in the golden, woody tones. Each season's cabin could have a slighlty differnt tone-----------indicating different sun intensities. And make the chimneys slightly different dark reds.
In fact, I considered making 4 seasons hanging when I first saw Nessie's log cabin.
I think you'd be up for some award.
09-10-2013, 11:03 AM
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Just make sure you know exactly what "one block" means. A block with borders could mean medallion to some. I would ask for clarification before you make the quilt. Names can be tricky. One block could mean - a block of concrete, a block of wood, a crossing guard blocking the street. I would think if it means using one block design for the top, then that block must stand alone not part of a larger unit such as drunkards path. You can see from the many answers that it can mean many things,,but what do the rules say. Using 4log cabin blocks to show the seasons is using 4 blocks and not one block. See what I mean.
Last edited by Holice; 09-10-2013 at 11:14 AM.
09-12-2013, 08:17 AM
#27
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Just make sure you know exactly what "one block" means. A block with borders could mean medallion to some. I would ask for clarification before you make the quilt. Names can be tricky. One block could mean - a block of concrete, a block of wood, a crossing guard blocking the street. I would think if it means using one block design for the top, then that block must stand alone not part of a larger unit such as drunkards path. You can see from the many answers that it can mean many things,,but what do the rules say. Using 4log cabin blocks to show the seasons is using 4 blocks and not one block. See what I mean.
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