Crooked Rails
10 inch blocks
Green is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) color for May.
Crooked Rails
10 inch blocks
I've been making Crooked Rail blocks since about the middle of last year. I'm using a dark and light scrap in the RSC color of the month. I'm using 3 and/or 3.5 inch width scraps and cutting rectangles 3 x 3.5. Each block uses 8 rectangles each of two different fabrics. I have several of Kathy Doughty's books and she uses these stack and whack wonky units in several of her quilts; however, she doesn't have any Crooked Rail blocks like these in her books. I make the units and have used them in lots of different ways.
Wonky Windmills
8 inch
For the geometric,etc. pile of blocks.
Made with 4.5 inch width scraps; 4.5 x 5 inch rectangles. These are the same type of units used in the Crooked Rails.
I made a bunch of the blocks in the RSC color of the month plus gray scraps. Last year I made a big stack of them and then divided them into piles for different quilts. I have already made the Wonky Windmill top with the novelty blocks but I need a few more blocks for the geometric, etc. pile and a few more blocks for the floral pile and then I will be finished with these blocks. My goal to use up a lot of small gray scrap chunks has been already accomplished.
Wonky Windmills
8 inch blocks
For the geometric, etc. pile.
I had a few multicolor scraps cut for the blocks so they alo got made this week.
Wonky Windmills
8 inch blocks
For the floral pile
Bricks and Stones
2.5 x 6 unfinished
I've been using 2.5 x 4 inch scraps in the RSC color of the month and 2.5 inch black squares to make these units. Intent is to use shorter lengths of 2.5 inch width scraps.
made with 3 x 6 inch rectangles
Hollow Nine Patch
10.5 inch blocks
Made with 4 inch squares
These are the final two blocks needed to complete the goal of 24 blocks for a kiddo comfort quilt.
And sew on...
10 comments:
I see a few greens from my stash among your scrappy blocks. I think the crooked rails are just great.
A nice assortment of blocks
So many fun scrappy projects happening there! Wow!
Sew Cathy Sew! Look at you go :-) Happy Saturday!
The Crooked Rails look so good all sewed together! Wonky fun!
You can make green and grey look nice together. Love your Crooked Rails too. Enjoy! ;^)
What a fun batch of blocks you have! I don't have a single one of those prints..... I think I must need more fabric!
Great collection of various blocks going on here! I'm very fond of Crooked Rails, I enjoyed making one with a group using the pattern from Kathy's book.
You really made a lot of blocks. I think I might get my pieces all mixed up between wonky rails and windmills, and the others! Congratulations on getting so much done.
I really like your setting of the crooked rails in the first photo. Do you have an actual tutorial for these? Seems to me I did something like this years ago but don't remember whose pattern I used for it.
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