The goal is to make two quilts as each room as two beds. A light aqua blue fabric will be furnished to us for the backing. Members of the Thursday Bee have already made several blocks and Marie will bring these to Monday night bee to display.
Each block you make will have 2 contrasting or co-coordinating fabrics and will finish to a rectangle 10 1/2 " long and 9 1/2 " wide.
To make one block: Cut 2 pieces of fabric #1 10 1/2" x 4 1/4". Cut 1 piece of fabric #2 10 1/2" x 2 ". Join the three pieces with the 2 " strip running down the middle.
(Yes that is a 1/4" measurement for fabric #1!)
To make many blocks: (and we encourage you to make many as we will need 180 blocks) Cut several different batiks a10 1/2 " x 10 1/2". Then cut a 2" strip off each piece and set aside. Cut the remaining 10 1/2" x 8 1/2" blocks in half lengthwise creating 2 rectangles 10 1/2 " x 4 1/4". Join these two matching rectangles with a contrasting 2" strip from your pile.
The most important dimension is the 10 1/2" length. Don't worry too much if your blocks iron out a little less that 9 1/2" in width -- this will not pose a problem when we join the blocks.
The blocks are easy to make and we hope everyone will participate. Bring them to Monday Bee, bring them to the February meeting, we will keep collecting blocks until we have enough to join the tops.
Here's a picture of some of the blocks. Sorry for the poor resolution, but it was with a camera phone.
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