Jacquie, from Tallgrass Prairie Studios, made a call out to crafty bloggers to challenge themselves and making some improvisational quilt blocks without a pattern or precise cuts. She’s then collecting the blocks to sew into charity quilts. Since I’m one of those persons who will notice a crooked painting on the wall, I thought this would be a great challenge for me. I volunteered for the blue/green quilt and started to dig through my vintage sheet scraps. I came up with three blocks.
This was my first one. She requested a log cabin-style block, but my improv was using scraps without cutting new fabric and not pre-planning the fabric placement.
This is my second one. For this, I wanted to try a hexagon-shaped log cabin. We have a quilt made from blocks like this that my mother-in-law made. This was trickier to know when I was done since it wasn’t square.
This is my last block. It’s less improvisational, but it’s my favorite pattern. I’ve been thinking about a quilt with squares inside squares, so I wanted to give it a try – very easy. The fabrics were still scraps, so the thickness was still improvisational.
