Other blocks to use with mariner's compass?
03-13-2011, 02:53 PM
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Look on quilters cache.com
there are some good secondary blocks there, look at
A triple star, starin chain, four on the road, shining hour, marions choice,
Starinnsquare.
I also like the border you used around the center, I would repeat it again further out, maybe. After a couple rows of blocks.
there are some good secondary blocks there, look at
A triple star, starin chain, four on the road, shining hour, marions choice,
Starinnsquare.
I also like the border you used around the center, I would repeat it again further out, maybe. After a couple rows of blocks.
03-13-2011, 04:22 PM
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First of all your center is just lovely. I too am working on a MC quilt. When I saw your center and saw that you need to make it king size I thought to take your center square and set it on point then surround it with a border of something. I used Flying geese in mine and it looks great and doesn't take away from the center compass. A long sawtooth would look good too.
Then I made additional MC blocks and set them into the four corner triangles of the quilt to get it back to being a square with the large on point compass unit in the center. You could enlarge those corner compasses by putting a ring of points or geese around them. By now you should have a roughly queen size quilt top which doesn't have borders yet. You can do more partial compasses to make up your border. This is what I am doing with mine. You can also repeat that border motif you used around your center compass.
Then I made additional MC blocks and set them into the four corner triangles of the quilt to get it back to being a square with the large on point compass unit in the center. You could enlarge those corner compasses by putting a ring of points or geese around them. By now you should have a roughly queen size quilt top which doesn't have borders yet. You can do more partial compasses to make up your border. This is what I am doing with mine. You can also repeat that border motif you used around your center compass.
03-13-2011, 05:55 PM
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I think the visual interest in the faceted jewels quilt comes from the repeat in the blocks, the secondary patterns where the blocks meet. I can't see it being effective with the compasses. Maybe something else with lots of batiks would work nicely. I love the idea of bringing the orange from the middle compass out to the edge. Oh, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE what you have done so far.
03-13-2011, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by gal288
Look on quilters cache.com
there are some good secondary blocks there, look at
A triple star, starin chain, four on the road, shining hour, marions choice,
Starinnsquare.
I also like the border you used around the center, I would repeat it again further out, maybe. After a couple rows of blocks.
there are some good secondary blocks there, look at
A triple star, starin chain, four on the road, shining hour, marions choice,
Starinnsquare.
I also like the border you used around the center, I would repeat it again further out, maybe. After a couple rows of blocks.
03-13-2011, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
First of all your center is just lovely. I too am working on a MC quilt. When I saw your center and saw that you need to make it king size I thought to take your center square and set it on point then surround it with a border of something. I used Flying geese in mine and it looks great and doesn't take away from the center compass. A long sawtooth would look good too.
Then I made additional MC blocks and set them into the four corner triangles of the quilt to get it back to being a square with the large on point compass unit in the center. You could enlarge those corner compasses by putting a ring of points or geese around them. By now you should have a roughly queen size quilt top which doesn't have borders yet. You can do more partial compasses to make up your border. This is what I am doing with mine. You can also repeat that border motif you used around your center compass.
Then I made additional MC blocks and set them into the four corner triangles of the quilt to get it back to being a square with the large on point compass unit in the center. You could enlarge those corner compasses by putting a ring of points or geese around them. By now you should have a roughly queen size quilt top which doesn't have borders yet. You can do more partial compasses to make up your border. This is what I am doing with mine. You can also repeat that border motif you used around your center compass.
03-13-2011, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Jan T
I think the visual interest in the faceted jewels quilt comes from the repeat in the blocks, the secondary patterns where the blocks meet. I can't see it being effective with the compasses. Maybe something else with lots of batiks would work nicely. I love the idea of bringing the orange from the middle compass out to the edge. Oh, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE what you have done so far.
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