Esqmommy

Rhonda - your blocks are wonderful! You are so skilled - maybe I should commission you to make my DJ quilt!!

Rhonda

Thank you all but they are far from perfect. I just wish I had the rest of the second set done. I am getting there tho.

I guess I chose these two because they are things I do all the time in my work. I just get anxious to have things done before I get to the end!! LOL

Rhonda

I just posted my directions for making the Drunkard's Path block on my website. Bearisgray asked me for it so I sent her the lesson but decided I would put it on my site for anyone else who might like it. I use yoyos and I don't do curves so this is my way of doing these. It is my version of the one Eleanor Burns does in her Egg Money Quilts book.

Here is my link:
http://www.bitsnpiecesworkshop.com/p...sPathBlock.php

KGoodhand

Klue, my blocks went in the mail yesterday. Let's keep our fingers crossed as to how fast you get them!!!

ai731

Very glad to hear it! I'm used to being in swaps and having my blocks arrive last :lol:

Jan

reneebobby

Very nice Rhonda and tute is really cool too.

bearisgray

Thanks Rhonda - couldn't open it in my e-mail, but I read over the tutorial. Very nicely done.

It would be fairly easy to do with stitching the yoyo/circle on the right side of the fabric.

By the way, the way you prepare your circles is a good way to prepare any circles for applique. That method would work very well to prepare the circles for the B-1 block, for example.

Rhonda

Someone told me not long ago that those are not yoyos. I don't remember the conversation real well but as far as I'm concerned they are yoyos. I learned this method years and years ago when someone had a lesson out for making grapes to be appliqued. She used a penny for the size. But I find metal is hard to use. It gets too hot and it is too thick. I prefer to use thin cardboard. It does tend to buckle a little when ironed but it doesn't affect the yoyo any. I tried metal washers but didn't like using them. Too thick and too hot when ironed.

bearisgray

I've always thought of yo-yos as those circles where the pulled up edges touched in the center - and then were sewn down/up/together - and the little things could be sewn together - or made into flowers - or something

Rhonda

LOL I can't do anything the normal way!! What fun would that be?? I do the same process just make the cut circle smaller. Then place it face down on fabric. I saw this done years ago. This method of making the yoyos isn't mine. I just added it to Eleanor Burns ideas of the DP block and added my cut down method to the process. Less math and less frustration.