For the Christmas Quiltalong this year (every second Saturday of the month), QuiltSue has designed a mystery quilt for us to make, and she has been dishing out the instructions in instalments via the monthly hostesses since February (Lesley has all the instalments to date on her blog, should you want to play catch up).
This Saturday (when Paulette will be hosting, welcoming us all to British Columbia, Canada), we will be putting the block elements that we have made up until now together into blocks, and Sue has challenged us all to see if we can guess the layout!I had a play with the block elements this evening.
Easy, I thought, this is how it will be...
...or this...
...or this...
But actually, this is very difficult, because we have fairly even numbers of the 'unit B 4-squares' and of the 'unit D half square triangles' BUT same and half again of the 'unit A background pieces', so we need to use more of them than the others....
Then there are the 'unit C hourglass strips' - now surely they have to be sashing? but still I have plenty of unit A backgrounds left to play with....I know that the blocks will be 9" finished, and the overall quilt size, but not how many blocks that includes, or what in the way of borders are planned.
I have a headache now - thank you for this glimpse into quilt block design, Sue, but I think that I will leave it to the experts in future!See what everyone else has guessed by coming to the Mr Linky party at Sue's, and to see what the real deal is, be sure to drop by to see Paulette on Saturday! There's a rumour of
Love your guesses! I wonder of Paulette has Sue's installment ..... I was thinking perhaps we could bribe her. lol
ReplyDeleteI reckon that Sue will have had Paulette sworn to silence! Anyway, we have to be nice to her, I hear talk of a giveaway on Saturday...
DeleteYou have some very creative guesses! I'm impressed with the variety of blocks you've come up with!
ReplyDeleteI could go on all night, Lesley, actually, I couldn't leave it alone and had another go this evening...
Deleteoooh....hmmm...boy..my layouts are plain old ugly now that I see yours! lol Guess I shouldn't have tried this when I was worn out! lolol
ReplyDeleteNope, not ugly at all - I love your blocks! You can always have another play...I did!
DeleteHazel m'dear, I am loving seeing how creative you are with your blocks.
ReplyDeleteI am also ROFLMAO because I know what Sue's plan is (and no, I'm not telling).
You could always make two versions of this quilt - one with Sue's layout and one with yours .....
Thank you, Hobbit - this is terrific fun, even if it is driving me mad!
DeleteAnd don't blame me if you explode with smugness, smarty pants! ;-)
Nice block ideas. And I'm sure you could have arrived at many more if you had kept at the game. I'm wondering if we should have done a version of "52 pick up" with all of our abcd's and see what design that made:)
ReplyDeleteYour comment made me howl with laughter, Joanna! And I have made too many versions - must stop now!!
DeletePancakes? Where did those go? Yum. Love your blocks, I think the bottom one is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteI'm just surmising that the most delicious thing that you can ever possible serve with your delightful Canadian maple syrup has surely got to be pancakes...?
DeleteHurry up, or I'll eat them all before you get to the party!
everything looks great!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mrs P - I have been enjoying myself with this!
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