Tumbling blocks, hollow cubes...
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I have given myself a huge headache today trying to learn how to make tumbling blocks and hollow cubes. I have ordered the book OBW Cubed but am to impatient to wait. I have made some of the tumbling blocks, or solid cubes by cutting out the diamonds individually. Is there a way to strip piece these blocks. If so, how do you figure strips to get the size you want?
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Wow, I love your quilt rapture ready, fabulous. Who, what where pattern? I have two set of twins (young) and am looking for patterns with primarys but that will go with any room color. I would just have to change the color scheme for each so no wrangling.
Thanks, do own a 60 degree ruler.
Cindy
Thanks, do own a 60 degree ruler.
Cindy
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Originally Posted by mudsprite
Wow, I love your quilt rapture ready, fabulous. Who, what where pattern? I have two set of twins (young) and am looking for patterns with primarys but that will go with any room color. I would just have to change the color scheme for each so no wrangling.
Thanks, do own a 60 degree ruler.
Cindy
Thanks, do own a 60 degree ruler.
Cindy
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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There are 3 sites that I know of on the internet that provide free strip pieced Tumbling Blocks instructions.
The first is called "Not your Grandmother's Tumbling Block". Marci Baker of Annie's Attic shows how she makes them in a video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpSETMbwsr
She explains it again in a Project Linus tutorial called "Big and Bold Blocks"
http://www.projectlinus.org/patterns...BoldBlocks.pdf
The 3rd site is from a BlogSpot called "Life in the Scrapatch" in a tutorial called "Easy Tumbling Blocks"
http://scrapatches.blogspot.ca/2012/...ial-part-1.htm
I didn't purchase a special quilting 60 degree ruler. I went to the dollar store and bought a 60 degree ruler in the school/office supply section.
I've made 2 Tumbling Blocks quilts using Marci Baker's method, and I enjoyed making both of them.
The first is called "Not your Grandmother's Tumbling Block". Marci Baker of Annie's Attic shows how she makes them in a video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWpSETMbwsr
She explains it again in a Project Linus tutorial called "Big and Bold Blocks"
http://www.projectlinus.org/patterns...BoldBlocks.pdf
The 3rd site is from a BlogSpot called "Life in the Scrapatch" in a tutorial called "Easy Tumbling Blocks"
http://scrapatches.blogspot.ca/2012/...ial-part-1.htm
I didn't purchase a special quilting 60 degree ruler. I went to the dollar store and bought a 60 degree ruler in the school/office supply section.
I've made 2 Tumbling Blocks quilts using Marci Baker's method, and I enjoyed making both of them.
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Middletown, Ohio
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There is a video online by Marci Baker. You can cut light strips 3", medium 2.5", dark 2.5". Then you sew a light with two darks on either side and a light strip with two mediums on either side. You can then layer them and cut at once. I used the 60 degree on my 6x24 ruler. After all cut out and placed where you want then strip pieced together.
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