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Block of the Month – Introducing Building Blocks!

Welcome to Building Blocks – the fabulous Block of the Month program designed by Sharyn Craig.  At Wish Upon A Quilt, we stepped outside of the box a bit to bring you this program that is intended to bring out the creative genius in you! While we select the fabrics and provide a pattern – you will design your own quilt by choosing your fabric placement.  The whole program is designed so that you will challenge yourself to make a block the way you want to make it - branching out, and seeing what happens.

Getting Ready to Build

Building Blocks kits come in 4 different colorways – Black & White, Christmas, Kaffe Fassett and Batik. You’ve chosen your colors, now what? Select  2 yards of a background fabric to use with your Building Blocks kits. I’ve pointed out the background fabrics we selected in the pictures below.

Make a copy or two of the block pattern in your kit (you can make copies for your personal use) so that you can play with the design of your block.  We use colored pencils to test block designs. Your kit includes enough fabric to use any of the colors and you have enough fabric to make two blocks…in case you don’t like the first one. If you love them both –great! You will be making 2 quilts!

Once you have a block design that you are happy with, you are ready to cut. The great thing about the Building Blocks pattern is that you can rotary cut or use templates.  If you would like a set of templates, we are taking orders for them.  Piece your block following the instructions and before you know it, you will have a very special, unique quilt that you designed! Looking forward to seeing your blocks!

  • Batik – cream background
  • Black and White – red background

    • Kaffe Fassett - purple aboriginal dot background

    Christmas - cream background

    This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 8:24 pm and is filed under Block of the Month. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    7 Responses to “Block of the Month – Introducing Building Blocks!”

    1. Eileen Lau Says:
      January 10th, 2012 at 9:16 pm

      Thanks this gives me an idea of what to expect….

    2. Julianne Walther Says:
      January 10th, 2012 at 9:47 pm

      Thanks so much for the extra information / clarifications! This is my first BOM and boy, was I confused at the start! Looking forward to it more now!

    3. Diane Swett Says:
      January 10th, 2012 at 11:02 pm

      looks interesting

    4. Jan Hashberger Says:
      January 11th, 2012 at 3:49 am

      Can’t wait to get my first package. I haven’t done any designing or redesigning in awhile so may just have to have fun if there is enough for 2.

    5. Deb W Says:
      January 12th, 2012 at 7:18 pm

      Thanks so much for posting these different versions. I’m having trouble visualizing (I seem to need more instructions, than fill in the blanks!). These are helping the planning stage.
      Deb

    6. Shirley S Says:
      January 15th, 2012 at 11:53 am

      I’m looking forward to this BOM. It’s a hard choice as to the colors, they are all my favorites.

    7. Shirley S Says:
      January 27th, 2012 at 1:15 pm

      Just received my fabric for block 1. Now to find the last fabric and get to sewing. Can’t wait.

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