PensacolaMQG: Block Lottery Tutorials

Christmas Tree Block Lottery 2018

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Cookie Plate Crumb Catcher 2017

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Christmas Present Block 2017

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Not Your Mother's Log Cabin June 2016

This is 12 1/2" unfinished block

Orange Peel May 2016

Picture courtesy of Donna

You can find a great orange peel tutorial Sew She Can blog here. There was a couple adjustments and details that vary from the tutorial. Please read here first. We are using the 6" template for the leaf found on the blog and add a quarter inch around. Also, we will be using a background square that is 6 1/4" . This will make it so that the points are touching when sewn together. We are using any grey background with any modern fabric as petals.

Pick Up Sticks April 2016

12.5" finished Kona White background and 1" or varied width of strips. You can use as many strips or as little strips as you like. You can use solids or prints as sticks and cut them larger as well. This block is forgiving. It is best done with a larger background 13.5" and when finished piecing in sticks, cut it down to size. You can find a tutorial giving you the basics here

Improv Paint Chip March 2016

Photo credit to From the Blue Chair

This block uses 3 solid fabrics, arranged and sewn using the Stack, Shuffle and Slide technique.
Colors should be jewel tones. Choose a medium value fabric, then choose one that has a lighter value and one that has a darker value. Cut the fabrics to 10.5" x 12.5".
Final block should be trimmed to 8" x 10" or left untrimmed.
A tutorial for a similar block can be found here.
To make a block like Cindy demonstrated at the meeting, find instructions from the book on the last page of this pdf here, from the publisher.
Either block can be made for your block lottery submission.

Flying Geese February 2016

Block by Yvonne Campbell

This block is 12.5" unfinished. We are using Kona white for the geese and Sea Glass color fabrics for the surround. You can find the tutorial and color inspirations at That's Sew Creative blog.

HST Chevron January 2016

Block by Donna Lacy

Take two 5" squares of the same kind of Tula Pink fabric and two 5" squares of white fabric. Place one white and one Tula fabric right sides together. Do this for the remaining fabric as well. Mark a diagonal line from corner to corner on each set. You will sew a 1/4" seam on either side of the line on both sets of fabric. When sewn, cut down the diagonal line in between the sewn lines. This gives you 4 HST's. Trim each HST to 4 1/2". Layout the triangles for the block. Sew the top two together. Then, sew the bottom set together. Now, sew top and bottom together. Finished block should be 8 1/2" block.

Christmas Trees October 2015

Our color theme is a white or other light background, green trees, brown trunks.
Use raw edge applique using either a very light weight fusible or washable Elmer's glue.
Stitch around each tree & trunk using a straight stitch, zig-zag or decorative machine stitch.
Embellish as desired.
Block size is 12.5 inches