Puzzle Quilt variation - "Trying to Fit In"

Reply Subscribe

Page 2 of 10

Last »

Thread Tools

02-25-2010, 11:13 AM

#11

KittyGram

Senior Member

Join Date: May 2009

Location: Illinois

Posts: 479

Love the quilt!! Now I'm really torn - this is the 3rd quilt that I've seen that I'd like to make for my grandson!!!

And thank you for the Excel file!!! I love Excel for planning out some of my quilts!!

02-25-2010, 11:26 AM

#12

redrummy

Senior Member

Join Date: Aug 2007

Location: Mount Vernon, Oh

Posts: 698

Thanks for the pattern. The reason I haven't done one was the same you gave, I felt it needed a edge, I also always put the outer edge together first, then filled in when doing puzzles. I can't wait to do it now.

02-25-2010, 11:39 AM

#13

amma

Power Poster

Join Date: Jul 2007

Location: Out searching for some sunshine :-)

Posts: 58,856

I love the edge treatment and that the blue piece will be in the border :D:D:D I can't wait to see the finished quilt!!!

02-25-2010, 12:57 PM

#14

Jim's Gem

Moderator

Join Date: Jun 2008

Location: Camarillo, California

Posts: 35,242

Looks great!!

02-25-2010, 01:27 PM

#15

LucyInTheSky

Super Member

Thread Starter

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Seattle

Posts: 1,743

Quote:

Originally Posted by BellaBoo

How are you going to sew that last blue piece in the row?

Carefully :-D

So first I'm going to add small squares to the middle and top of the blue piece to make it one rectangle. Then I'm going to add triangles to the various sides to make a rectangular block, with the blue on an angle. Kinda a square within a square.

At that point, attach the border strip above and below, and attach to the quilt.

02-25-2010, 01:29 PM

#16

LucyInTheSky

Super Member

Thread Starter

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Seattle

Posts: 1,743

Does this picture help? It won't go over the red piece, of course.

And then the hole will be filled in with the background fabric.

Attached Thumbnails

02-25-2010, 01:30 PM

#17

LucyInTheSky

Super Member

Thread Starter

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Seattle

Posts: 1,743

Quote:

Originally Posted by sewcrazygirl

I love the colors you chose. Fantastic!

Is there a way to make this so its actually a puzzle? Would make a great gift for a toddler.

Who makes this pattern??

Probably with velcro? I dunno...

Who makes this pattern - me :). See the attached Excel sheet, it's a variation on measurements someone on the board came up with.

02-25-2010, 01:32 PM

#18

LucyInTheSky

Super Member

Thread Starter

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Seattle

Posts: 1,743

Quote:

Originally Posted by Susy

Oh, thank you for the excel pattern! I made one last year with something I just drew/coloured out on a piece of paper with 2 1/2 squares and it was pretty much sewing each square separately, this is so much nicer, I may attempt another one!

What I really like about yours is the piece shape. My next one will have shapes like those and other jigsaw puzzle piece shapes (me as a real jigsaw-er, I want lots of different puzzles, like with 4 ends sticking out, and 4 in, ya know)

02-25-2010, 01:35 PM

#19

LucyInTheSky

Super Member

Thread Starter

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: Seattle

Posts: 1,743

Quote:

Originally Posted by redrummy

I would suggest sketching out the whole quilt ahead of time. I did the corner region (like in my Excel sheet), did some quick math, and figured out how much of each piece I needed. Well, my math *may* have been off one piece which *may* have been how I came up with the blue piece in the border idea (though I admit nothing and meant to do it that way), so I would suggest grabbing colored pencils and sketching the WHOLE thing out, not just trusting your math skills. Especially if you don't have extra of the fabrics ;) ;)