EQ Doodles and more

The EQ Doodle block this month on our sister site – chrisandbarbaraquilts – is Birds in the Air. But, just as we did with last month’s block, you can split this one into four as well and get two potentially interesting new ‘blocks’ to play with (as well as one not quite so interesting one).

If we put four of the first of these new blocks together and turn them around these are a few of the ideas EQ came up with

And then the second one gives us these possibilities (among others).

And then we decided to try distorting the original block by exaggerating the triangles

then put a few together to see what a quilt might look like

And we didn’t even start on recolouring the blocks . . .

If you want to make the original block, the quarter blocks or the distorted block, or just colour some quilts you can download all the cutting instructions and colouring pages here.

December EQ Doodles

As many of you know we try every month to put up some EQ doodles on our sister website chrisandbarbaraquilts. And from time to time we try to remember to supplement those doodles here with instructions or templates to make the block or blocks featured.

Barbara was feeling a little festive at the beginning of the month and has come up with two blocks – Five-Patch Chain and Rolling Star which she has combined to make a series of interesting designs. Here’s one of them  and you will find plenty of others on our Doodles page.

You can download the templates for a 10 inch Rolling Star block here and the rotary cutting measurements for a 10 inch Five-Patch Chain here. Over on the Chris and Barbara blog you can download a colouring sheet for a quilt – which you can print out as many times as you wish, cut a few up, re-arrange the blocks and design your own doodle.

EQ Doodles

Over on the Chris & Barbara blog not only are we looking at scrappy designs but we also do quilt doodles with the aid of Electric Quilt each month. In November’s doodles Barbara has used some frame blocks and looks at how effective they are for showing off those prints that you can’t bear to cut up into small pieces.

I have drawn them out in Electric Quilt (EQ8) and recoloured them so they look very different from Barbara’s colourings. Over on the EQ Doodles page you can download a colouring sheet to design your own colourways. However you may fancy actually making quilts with these blocks having seen some of the ones Barbara has designed. I have done both rotary cutting measurements and templates to make 9inch blocks for you to download. The measurements may be a little unusual as the blocks are all based on different grids – 4-patch, 5-patch and 7-patch – which made it tricky to choose a suitable size! I thought it was worth giving it a go however as the quilts Barbara has shown that use more than one of these blocks looked so interesting – for example –