Trellis Quilrt

Oops! That should say Trellis "Quilt" -- not "Quilrt"!!!!

I made that pattern a few years ago - it's called "Around the Twist" if I remember - here's a picture of it -

Ginny in VT, where we'll be having a white Easter

How lovely!! Bev in TX

Great pattern. Thank you, Bev. . In message , " snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com" writes

Mmmm. That's lovely, Ginny. It looks good with more repetitions, too, doesn't it. . In message , Ginny in VT writes

Nice link - thanks!

Suzie B

Thankyou for the link!

Oh, that's pretty, Ginny!! I love blue and brown together.

Thanks - have saved this one, it looks quite versatile too. Hunted around and found the Home page

there are some long-arm patterns there, but some, I'm sure, could be used for ordinary free machine quilting if you were brave!

Worth a look around.

very easy! I've made a quilt to this pattern, though I didn't paper piece, it might have been better if I had, the blocks turned out slightly different sizes and in squaring up it didn't quite match, but it was good enough!

Anne

I love it, but am so horrible at math I can not figure out how to enlarge the blocks to make either 6" or 9" blocks. Need to make a quilt for DS for his graduation next year.

Debbi in SO CA

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It looks to me as if everything is in thirds. I entered it into EQ5 that way, and it looks okay. With four blocks across and down, the quilt top size would be the following: 6" square blocks == ~34" square 9" square blocks == ~51" square If you added any borders it would be bigger than that.

I do see one thing that I missed. For the block with the square in the center, #2 abuts against both #1 and #5. From the dashed line, it appears that the part of #2 that abuts against #1 is sewn first. The part of #2 that abuts against #5 is sewn last. I have not seen that done with paper piecing before, but then I've only done a little of that.

Bev in TX

it does look like that, but I think I prefer the trellis bit to be narrower relative to the overall block size, it's relatively easy to calculate, say you want 10 inch blocks with 2 inch trellis, for the blocks with triangle corners, you cut a block 10.5 inches square and 4 squares each 2.5 inches, and sew them at each corner, or you could draw a paper pieced diagram with lines across the corner 2 inches in on a 10 inch square.

The other block is then a 6.5 inch square (= size of finished block minus 2 time trellis + seam allowance) in the middle with 4 strips, 2.5 inches by

8.5 inches (= trellis + inner square finished size + seam allowance). Or draw out the same thing.

I've done this square set, picture is at

Cheers

Anne

That is called "partial seam" piecing. You sew the seam partway... stop... then go on to sew the other pieces and when you get back around to the "unfinished piece" -- you finish it.

Really quite an easy technique once you get the hang of it. My first quilt used this technique --it was the tesselating star from the Fons & Porter beginning quilting book.

If you need more clear directions on how to assemble the block -- let me know and I can write out more detailed instructions.

Kate in MI

The Fons & Porter pattern quilt I made can be seen here -- their quilt was just the center portion: - the basic block has the black square on point with the 4 triangles around it -- this is the block that required the partial seam method.

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Thanks for the suggestion -- I do see what you mean :-). I'll have to try that out in EQ5. Unfortunately, I think that when resizing a block EQ5 changes everything proportionally. That would require redoing the entire quilt whenever the block is resized to keep the trellis at 2". However, I am not an "expert" at EQ5.

Bev in TX

portion:

the basic> block has the black square on point with the 4 triangles around it -- this> is the block that required the partial seam method.> ****************************** I have heard of partial seams before -- probably on the Fons & Porter show on which they described that very quilt :-). (You did a marvelous job on all those points!) That show is what made me rethink how the block should be sewn after I saw that dashed line. I never heard of partial seams being used with paper piecing; however, I am a paper piecing neophyte.

Going back to the block with the square in the middle, I'm guessing that one would have to remove the paper between seam #2 and #3 (on the #2 side) before sewing the seam between #2 and #5? Otherwise, it looks to me as if it would be a tight place to fold over and sew that seam.

Bev in TX

Open this page in Google, right click, go down to page Info right click again and hit Translate page into English. worked a treat for me and hope it downs for you

Butterfly

----------------------------- Thanks :-). I've never done that before, so I learned something new.

Bev in TX

The translation I got was hysterical!! I'll go with just the diagrams. Love the pattern.

Thanks, Kay Ahr > Open this page in Google, right click, go down to page Info right click