This month’s BOTEOM is “Split Rail Fence.” Elizabeth McInnis put the directions together for us!

Colors

In December we voted on the color scheme put together by Mickey Beebe: Georgia won, which is based on a Georgia O’Keeffe painting with Jade Green, Capri, Snow White, Titanium, Silver, and Blue Jay

Cutting

From each of 5 colors, cut an 8” x 2.5” strip

From a sixth color, cut a 1”x 10” strip

Assembly

1. Sew the 8 x 2.5” strips together to make a rail fence block. Press.
2. Make a cut across all four strips
3. Sew the 1×10 strip to the cut edges. Make sure the ‘rails’ still line up.
4. Press and trim the block to 8” square

That’s all!

Ideally, the insert will contrast with the parallel rails.

Let’s do this with fabrics that read as a single palette color.

This month’s BOTEOM is “Cornered Block” and is the MQG block study for October-November-December designed by Jamie Siel for MQG, colors and organization by Mickey Beebe for SBAMQG.

The color pallet that won the August vote is “New Mexico.” We postponed the winning color to November in favor of having our Community Quilt block be our BOTEOM for November. For this block, please use solids; they do not need to be these exact colors from Kona, but try to remain close to this palette.

Examples from Mickey:

The “Cornered Block” is on the MQG website –  here (you will need to log in) – or click on Resources and it’s 3/4 down the page.
This block is easy to cut out (most of the pieces are cut from 2 1/2” strips) and quick and fun to make.

Pick 4 out of the 6 colors in this month’s color palette: Celestial, Blue Jay, Grass Green, Lime, Tangerine, and Grellow.

Follow the directions on the MQG website. Press all the seams open.
For a chance to win all the blocks you need to return the entire block, which consists of 3 completed inner block elements and the 2 pieces of sashing. Don’t sew your three blocks together, but if you already did, it’s okay, turn it in as is!

The blocks are due at our January 5th meeting.

July’s BOTEOM is brought to you by Lynne

This is a simple, wonky block with endless design opportunities depending on how you rotate the blocks.

We will be using solid colors only (thank you to Mickey for putting together our voting palette, the winning color combination is Émile Alain Séguy Dragonflies.

For this block, you can use tints, shades, and tones of above colors. Black is to be used for sidebars.

 

Fabric needed for each block:

Four-patches = Four 4.5” squares of the palette colors. You may use two, three or four colors

Sidebars = One each 2 x 8.5” and 2 x 10” black strips

1. Sew the four-patch together
2. Add the shorter black strip to one side
3. Sew the longer black strip to an adjacent side

Make a trimming template by cutting off 2.5” from the top of an 8.5×11” sheet of paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lay the template on your block, rotating it slightly so it’s off-center. (Adding a small roll of painters’ tape to the back of the template will keep it from sliding.)

Lay your ruler along one side of the template and trim off the excess.

Repeat for all four sides.

Yay! You’ve made a wonky Sidebar!

“Modern Stripes”:  Make your own stripes to create a modern block!

By Ruth Smith and Lori Green

We based our block on Christine Ricks’s QuiltCon winner (see photo), which you can see here:

https://aninoogunjobi.com/2019/07/quilt-challenge-acknowledging-quilts-from-christine-ricks-malka-dubrawsky-steph-skardal-and-michelle-wilkie-modern-quilt-guild-introduces-the-american-patchwork-quilting-stripes-quilt/

COLORS: SBAMQG Chosen Palette: (Kona names are for reference only—use what you have that is closest)

Bordeaux, (burgundy/maroon),  Palm (medium green), Lemon (bright yellow)

Additional tones in same palette (creative license!):

Salmon Flamingo, Sprout (bright yellow/green), Yarrow (dark yellow/orange)

• PLEASE USE SOLIDS ONLY—when making stripes the pros recommend sticking to solids to keep the lines clean. (No tone-on-tone this time)
• BUT. . . you  may include some pieces of the Kaffe Fasset Woven Stripe (Caterpillar in Earth)—this will be provided to you.  This is the only non-solid, and will provide texture and cohesion. (You may want to use SPRAY STARCH to stabilize this loose woven fabric.)

TO MAKE STRIPES:

Choose any TWO colors to create your stripes;

Suggested width: CUT  1” to 2.0”, –FINISHES at .5” to 1.5”

Sew together  with ¼” seam

THE BLOCKS:

You can make 4.5” OR  8.5” square blocks, OR 4.5” x 8.5” rectangles.

Please make at least two blocks: one with solids/pieced stripes only, and one including some of the Kaffe Woven Stripe. Of course you can make more!

SOME IDEAS TO GET YOUR STARTED:

Use your imagination to make creative blocks of your liking!

• Squares or rectangles made all of same stripes.
• Triangle within a Square (stripes and solids)
• Square in a Square
• Drunkards Path (circle or quarter circle in a square, or half circle in a rectangle); combine stripes and solids
• Half Square Triangles (half stripes, half solid)
• Hourglass (juxtapose stripes and solids)

Have Fun!!    Bring to our March 2020 meeting.

Questions?  Ask Lori Green or Ruth Smith

Image from: https://aninoogunjobi.com/2019/07/quilt-challenge-acknowledging-quilts-from-christine-ricks-malka-dubrawsky-steph-skardal-and-michelle-wilkie-modern-quilt-guild-introduces-the-american-patchwork-quilting-stripes-quilt/

(Please note this photo is NOT the color palette—see notes above for colors)