Now it’s your turn– let’s see those finished quilts!
You can link up your quilt photo at any time. But for those who link up by Friday, May 3, 12 noon EST, you’ll be entered in an EQ Prize Pack giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a pack of EQ Printables: Quilter’s Newsprint and a Quilting Designs Vol. 8. Fun stuff that will keep you quilting!
I hope you all enjoyed this sew along as much as I did! If you have EQ7, please join me for our next sew along—EQ7 Summer Drawing Series! We start drawing on May 1!
I made two of each block so I made two quilts. One is a basic sashed setting and the other has a little more movement.
Bravo Terri! I especially love the twists in your first quilt!
Terri, yours look great! Colorful!
Jenny, I like the way you varied the block sizes! Looks great!
Thanks Patty! I love all the quilting in your individual blocks– really makes each one stand out!
My top is not yet ready…. missing 4 triangles and a border. Just now I found out that…. there´s a little mistake that I must fix!
So, as quilting is not my work I have to send the finished top to a longarm quilter in Spain. It will take about 2 months until it is finished, so, I`ve decided to show the top as it is now. It has been a great pleasure sewing along with you all. Hope to meet you in another project.
Your quilt is just beautiful! I love the sashing and alternate block you choose to pair with the sew along blocks.I would love to see a photo when it’s all finished too!
This is my project! Initially I created all 12″ blocks but now I am re-creating some of the blocks in 9″ size for the final round of my quilt. It will be about 104″x104″ when done and it will be lovely! I had so much fun creating with the Sew Along that I will try the drawing in the next Sew Along.
Wow Lorraine! You’ve expanded your sew along blocks into a mega quilt! I love the dresden plates border. What a beauty!
Jenny and quilting friends – As I mentioned before, I am still hunting for all of the fabrics I will need to finish my quilt so this is a picture of it from the EQ7 program. I found the fabric for the first border (small one) and the corner stones, I have a couple of possibilities for the alternate blocks and of course I already had the focus fabric which will be the outer border. My finished quilt will measure 84″ by 104″ but is definitely a work in progress. Thanks again for the sew along. It’s been so much fun. Now that summer is here I doubt that I will be doing another one any time soon (it’s time for gardening and outdoor things) but maybe you will have something planned for next winter. All of the quilts I’ve seen posted so far are wonderful!
Good luck in your quest for fabrics! Looks like you’ve got a great plan there. Would love to see a photo when it’s all finished.
This was a blast and I am very pleased with the results.
Great job JoAnn! I like your setting!
I used the twelve 12-inch blocks layout from EQ7 that Jenny suggested, but it seems to be just a picture that doesn’t permit any editing of the blocks nor printing out of cutting instructions, etc. Consequently, I had to use a drafting program that I have to re-design the block structure to accommodate the fifteen 9-inch blocks.
This whole project was a ton of fun and I’m eagerly looking forward to the Summer “draw-along” series.
The quilts in the Layout Library are really meant to be used at the size they were designed—they’re a “design shortcut”. If a layout library quilt was built using Custom Set (as many of the more interesting layouts are), it’s not as straight-forward when changing the size. But it can be done! Regardless of whether or not you change the size, you can print patterns for any of the block spaces in a Layout Library quilt. Just make sure you fill the space with a block or fabric, click it with the Select tool, and then you can print the patterns.
Let’s say you wanted to change the “King Irregular Grid with Twelve 12″ Blocks” layout to accommodate 9″ blocks.
9 divided by 12 is .75, so we need to make this quilt 75% smaller.
After you’ve added the layout to your Sketchbook and then edited it to the Quilt Worktable, click QUILT > Quilt Worktable Options. Click All Styles on the left and UNcheck “Don’t resize content of layers when resizing quilt”. Click OK.
Click the Layout tab. This quilt is 76″ x 80″. Multiply those measurements by .75 and we find we need to change the size to 57″ x 60″. Input those new numbers and click Layer 1.
Click the Adjust tool and click one of the block spaces and you’ll see those 12″ block spaces are now 9″!
I realize this still doesn’t give you 15 block spaces, but you went above and beyond with this sew along!
Sorry I wrote a novel in the comments! Just thought it would be nice for everyone to see this info!
This is my Veterans quilt that I was making to donate to the local VA home in FL. Well when I got it together and was showing it to my fellow sewers, they said I could not donate it. They want to raffle it off and take the proceeds and purchase items that the veterans need.
I made three extra blocks to make the lap quilt the size I needed. It will now become a couch throw for someone to enjoy in their home. I did the “U” “S” “A” paper pieced and put them horizontal. I enjoyed making the blocks and getting to see all the beautiful blocks that each one of you made.
The quilts I have seen so far are BEAUTIFUL!
What a wonderful way to use your sew along blocks! Your quilt turned out beautifully! I’m glad your quilty friends encouraged you to use it for a raffle- the winner will be quite lucky.
Thank YOU Jenny, It humbled me to think they thought it was good enough for the raffle.
Wow Sharon, that’s quite an ambitious quilt and I love it! I’m glad this sew along gave you the little push you needed. Please share a photo with us when the quilt is done!
The black sets off your blocks so nicely. Please share a photo when the quilt is done too!
My blocks are 6″. Block 10 did not appeal to me and I was going to chose another block but realized I liked the 9 blocks as they were. The front of the quilt is the first 9 blocks, the back of the quilt has block 11.
The back of my quilt has block 11. It is 10″.
Love your quilting! Glad you posted a pic of the back too so we could see it a little better. Wonderful job!
These are my 12″ blocks set with 2″ sashing and a 4″ border.
4″ blocks with 3/4″ sashing and 2″ border. The small blocks were challenging, but it really helped improve my paper piecing skills.
4 inches!! I’m amazed. Especially with Block 7 (#1774). Spectacular job!
This is just the assembled top, there have been no decisions made concerning quilting. I had a great time with this, on to the next Jenny hosted challenge.
Beautiful, bright colors Linda! The blue sashing is wonderful!
These quilts are wonderful. I couldn’t participate since I already had too much going on. I hope there will be another sew along when I have the time to participate.
This is my top now completed. I really love it!
It has been quite awhile since I finished by Block Base Sew Along quilt but bad weather, illness, etc have prevented me from getting a photo of it until today. My quilt is 85″ by 105″, rather large to take a photo indoors. I set my blocks on point, used sashing and corner stones and a beautiful beige Moda fabric with dragonflies for the alternate and side setting blocks. Then I found a quilting pattern with dragon flies for the machine quilting. Again I want to tell that I enjoyed the sew along so much and thank you for doing it. I have really had no time to even think about another sew along quilt recently but have been doing some charity quilts as time allows.
Gorgeous Nancy! I’m so glad you came back to share your finished quilt with us. A wonderful design for your sew along blocks!
Thanks so much Jenny. I love the quilt and am using it on my bed as it goes well with my décor.