Stripes quilt block?

On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:26:48 -0600, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

Make a quilt? ;-)

Maureen

Well, yeah. I probably was going to make a quilt - but somewhere I just must have seen a wonderful block using stripes. Don't know if the proposed block was in a magazine or one of the beauties someone here has made. Polly

"Maureen Wozniak" < wrote> make a quilt? ;-)

Borders with mitred corners?

Stripes, like just stripes? Or like border stripes with a print of some kind?

There is a technique [book] that turns out some stunning quilts using just a border stripe fabric.

is the book although the cover quiltdoesn't have the WOW! factor that some other quilts do. Hmmm, normally I am pretty good at digging up an image but there just isn't much out there.

The basic idea is a four-piece kaleidoscope based on repeat size. The design motif makes some pretty cool rotations, and the stripes can be used to connect blocks. I love love love this book.

Bert in Rice, WA

Polly, that's an easy one to do. I have a back issue of a magazine (I'll look for it later) that features a gorgeous quilt that has alternate stripe blocks and simple nine-patch blocks in a checker board quilt (easy as pie) that's gorgeous. Made me start collecting stripes. And then there is another one, and I can't find it, but you use the stripes to make simple blocks of miters. So each block looks like a hard right turn, LOL. Sort of.

I'll keep looking. But I really like stripes and have used them in kid quilts. Anything you do with them, they add a lot to normal blocks. Try using a stripe as one of the fabrics in a 9-patch. Wow. Or Warm Wishes gets ridiculously easy with stripes. It just goes on and on. Have fun with your stripes. I just want to see the result, even in process.

Sunny

I don't think it was mitered corner blocks but may have been; and not just 'one' sort of wallpaper fabric. The stripe collection I've built is many FQ's; all with at least one pink stripe. I must have had a magazine or one of you showed us a quilt that called to me. Now that I know how to put 'sticky' notes on my monitor, I can do better with remembering blocks I'd love to try. Until I run out of monitor. Polly

"Sunny"

do like those brights with stripes and batiks, pix #17 of 20.might be more but i'm working backwards today and thats as far as i'vegotten just now. i love how you can mix a variety of fabric design styles and it still looks fantastic. one use for stripes perhaps. j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... There's a beautiful array of stripes here. Does anybody have a clue what I was going to do with them? Insufficient memory and all that, you know. Polly

do like those brights with stripes and batiks, pix #17 of 20.might be more but i'm working backwards today and thats as far as i'vegotten just now. i love how you can mix a variety of fabric design styles and it still looks fantastic. one use for stripes perhaps. j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... There's a beautiful array of stripes here. Does anybody have a clue what I was going to do with them? Insufficient memory and all that, you know. Polly

I looked at those, Jeanne, but just don't think they say 'crib quilt'. Very strange of me to be saving for a stripes quilt, get them and then have no idea what I was going to do with them. Polly

could it have been in the magazine you sent me? j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... I don't think it was mitered corner blocks but may have been; and not just 'one' sort of wallpaper fabric. The stripe collection I've built is many FQ's; all with at least one pink stripe. I must have had a magazine or one of you showed us a quilt that called to me. Now that I know how to put 'sticky' notes on my monitor, I can do better with remembering blocks I'd love to try. Until I run out of monitor. Polly

"Sunny"

Howdy!

Here's a gorgeous example of how to use stripes:

R/Sandy - Merry Christmas!

to whom? i'd betcha a baby/toddler would love the variety of design as he/she grew and was carrying it around all day with him/her. think of the activity it would give his/her brain as they looked at such a structured yet what what could appear to be a chaotic design. yup, i reckon a baby/toddler would love all the variety of fabrics and colours to look at and think about. keeps that brain in 'thinking' mode. i had wooden puzzles with squares, diamonds and triangles much like a leymoyne star when i was a kid. i recall that toy more than most of the others i must of had. the first time i saw a leymoyne star quilt it brought that puzzle back to mind. iirc mom said my brother tossed it out or gave it away without asking. :( i'd love to have had it for my kids. i actually did buy them one similar and others too. they were all good at maths in school. i figure that was part of it. j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... I looked at those, Jeanne, but just don't think they say 'crib quilt'. Very strange of me to be saving for a stripes quilt, get them and then have no idea what I was going to do with them. Polly

Sandy! I just don't much think that's what I fell in love with. It was probably a happy crib quilt. . not that that one isn't dazzling but not something I'd attempt. At least not sober. Polly

Polly, would the stripes look good as a border for a baby quilt?

Donna in WA wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!

Oh they would, Donna. They surely would but I must have seen something of a simple block of maybe 4 or 9 patches or HSTs. Polly

alternating the direction of the stripes on the squares of a four patch looks woven. of course you know that. i'm just pointing it in case it registers as what you saw. j.

"Polly Esther" wrote ... Oh they would, D> Polly, would the stripes look good as a border for a baby

Polly, I found an orphan block that I made, probably while looking at some magazine article, with stripes. They were turned crosswise and made into HST and then again. I'm not explaining well, but the stripes were all parallel to the outside edge, and they (obviously) tapered in width as they met in the center, where a nice little square of stripes was formed. It's a great block, and finding it makes me want to get my stripes out and start working on that project again. Go try it with two squares of stripes. Make the HST, and then face them together and do it again. What you get is a square with the stripes making little concentric boxes (can boxes be concentric?) all the way into the center. Really pretty and would make any solid or sort of solid look good next to it. Plenty of excitement and yet sweet enough for a baby. \

Sunny

I always love a nice double pinwheel block. It is especially appealing with stripes set just right. Marcia Hahn calls that block "Pinwheel" and provides directions at her quilterscache.com site. Pat in Virginia