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2016
started as my colourful year and I would like to continue with that theme. So
for the tesselated quilt, I have chosen to work with batiks and balis because I
have a vast collection of them and also because I can drool over the colours as
I am using them. It doesn’t take much to
make this gal happy! Now, a tessellation is a repeating pattern of the same
shape without any gaps or overlaps and this is the building block that will be
repeated throughout the quit.
Building
block
I
mentioned that it was similar in construcion to the Picket fence block seen
below, but in fact it is simpler to constuct as there is only 1 of the 3 rows
that is made up of 2 fabrics.
I
am making blocks which are either light or dark/bright so that there will be a
contrast throughout the quilt. For the 4 repeated building blocks you will need
to cut a set of strips as follows: 4 at 2 ½” x 6 ½” and 4 at 2 ½” x 4 ½”. Place
a set of rectangles beside your sewing machine as shown (a long and short light
and a long and short dark).
Sew the long seams and press.
Place the remainder of the light set of fabrics in pattern
formation and place a different dark at each of the remaining 3 corners.
String-piece each of the short strips to make a row, and
place them back in sequence.
Join the strips together to make 4 building blocks and put
them back in sequence.
I am not joining these 4 blocks together yet but I am pinning
them on my design wall. At each corner I am pinning the rest of the bright
strips that make up the set.
More next time so have a good week!
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