Magazines !

This week there is no single block, but a reference to one of the Magazines to which I subscribe. I have just received the most recent issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting and there are several great quilts that are eminently Inklingoable ! I am only going to give the sizes of shapes that you need. If you want the pattern, buy the magazine :-)

IF you want to make any of the quilts, I can recommend that you download Monkey's Cheat Sheet and use it to note down all the sizes and shapes that you are going to need, AND fill it out with the relevant shape and size of Inklingo template.

... and PLEASE note that this magazine usually makes HST by using full squares ! This is not necessary with Inklingo. You can see pictures of most of them at the Fons and Porter home-page, because they have kits for most of these quilts


Watermelon & ShooFly (p. 18 ff)
Make the ShooFly blocks with 2" HST in Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection, and 2" squares found in MANY collections. Check the Index of Shapes on the Inklingo page.

Cottage in May (p. 43 ff).
Instead of cutting 2.5" squares for quick corners, print 2" HST with Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection.
Instead of cutting 3.5" squares for quick corners, print 3" HST with Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection.

Kinkame (p. 52 ff)
This quilt can ALL be made with the shapes in Collection 3. The triangles used are 0.75", 1.5" and 2.25". All found in Collection 3. Remember that the Inklingo-size is the finished size of the shape.

Cambridge Stars (p.72 ff)
The basic unit is 2.25". So print 2.25", and 4.5" HST and cut (free-hand), 2.25" (finished size) squares. The smaller HST is in the downloadable collection, both sizes are in Collection 2.

Elizabeth's Garden (p. 80 ff)
The following can be printed :
3" HST (triangle A), 1" squares (for the centre 9-patches) Again the downloadable HST 00B collection, and MANY other collections. Check the Index of Shapes at the Inklingo home-page

Variable Star (p. 86 ff)
Is made with 6" (finished size) Variable Star blocks. These blocks have already been shown on this blog, under the name of Evening Star.

Meadow Brook (p. 92 ff)
Uses 3" HST from either Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection, and 3" squares from either the Drunkard's Path collection or the 9" Storm At Sea collection

Grandmother's Daisy Garden (p. 100 ff)
I think this one is meant to be simple, using Paper-Piecing and the cutting of 60-degree angles. I think I would rather just make the hexagon flowers using the 1.5" hexagons in Collection 3, and "rectangle" them up.

Hexagon bonus block # 10 - Poinsetta

This block is my own design (as far as I know). IF someone out there has information that others have designed the same block previously, please let me know.
In any circumstance, play fair. If you want to share this block with others, refer them to this page, please :-)

This block uses Collection # 3, but if you want it in a different size (4" to the side, 8" from tip to tip), you can use Collection 1, and use the 1" unit as your base.

Fabric 1 (background)
6 diamonds, 0.75" (p. 115)
3 x 5" (printed landscape)
12 triangles, 0.75" (p. 136)
3 x 6.75"

Fabric 2 (leaves)
12 diamonds, 0.75" (p. 115)
4 x 6.5" (printed landscape)

Fabric 3 (flower)
6 starpoints, 0.75" (p. 97)
5 x 6"

Fabric 4 (centre)
1 hexagon, 0.75" (p. 82)
4.25 x 5" (will yield 4, but it is the smallest sensible size)


Make the diamonds that are to be inset between the star-points. Each of these pieced diamonds consists of two triangles and a diamond of background-fabric, and two diamonds of the leaf-fabric.



Make the star-flower, as you made the Texas Star block and inset the sewn diamonds as you did the unsewn background-fabric diamonds on that one.

Hexagon bonus block # 9

Star of the East
Barbara Brackman # 241.1 / 3716

Uses Collection 3

Fabric 1 (background)
6 diamonds, 1.5" (p. 122)
5.5 x 6.25"

Fabric 2 (focus A, dark)
6 half-diamonds, 1.5" (p. 125)
4.5 x 6"

Fabric 3 (focus B, medium)
6 half-diamonds, 1.5" (p. 125)
4.5 x 6"


Join the half-diamonds from the two focus-fabrics, to form a total of 6 diamonds.

Join them as you would a normal 6-pointed star. Make sure that you alternate the colours on the two focus-fabrics.

Add the backing-fabric. If you hand-piece, this can be done with one continuous stitch.

Finished.

Hexagon bonus block # 7

Triangles Galore
Size of block : 3" finished side

Uses Collection # 3

Fabric 1 (background)
12 triangles, 1.5" (p. 143)
5.75" square

Fabric 2 (focus)
12 triangles, 1.5" (p. 143)
5.75" square

Print and cut apart

Make 3 triangles of each colourway.

Join the triangles, alternating the colourways.

Finish.

Hexagon bonus block # 6

Texas Star

Finished size of block : 3" to the side.
Uses Collection # 3

The version on the right is made by Linda, and she has added half-triangles as a setting, from the Inklingo KISS 101 collection.

Fabric 1 (background)
6 diamonds (p. 122), 1.5"
5.5 x 6.25"

Fabric 2 (focus A)
6 starpoints, (p. 97), o.75"
5 x 6"

Fabric 3 (focus B)
1 hexagon (p. 82), 0.75"
Small scrap, or smallest piece that priter will accept. With my printer, that is 3 x 5", which will yield 2 hexagons.

Another nice, traditional hexagon-block. It is basically a hexagon-flower with an attitude, and like the hexagon flower, it can be hybrid pieced, or you can use Cathi's tutorial.

Start by making the star.
The arrows on the picture on the left shows how I pieced mine.

First the green arrows, adding 3 starpoints to the centre hexagon
Second the orange arrows, inserting the remaining 3 starpoints into the mix, and finishing the star.
Finally the red arrows for the outside diamonds. They can be added with one, continuous thread.

























This block can be made in a version that is 4" to the side, if you use the 1" Starpoints and hexagon from Collection 1, and the 2" diamond from the KISS collection102.

Hexagon bonus block # 5

Hexagon Pinwheel
Uses Collection # 3
Finished size (of side) : 3"

Fabric 1 (background-fabric)
4.5 x 5.5" (for triangles)

Fabric 2 (focus-fabric)
4.25 x 10.25" (for half-hexagons)
OR
6 x 7.25

From p. 143 in collection 3, pick
the ink-colour that works best
with your fabrics.
Cut a 4.5 x 4.5" piece of
background-fabric and same size
freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

From p. 107 in collection 3, pick the ink-colour that works best with your fabrics.
Cut a 4.25 x 10.25" piece of background-fabric and same size freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to front (right side) of fabric.
Print.

Start by joining the triangles to the half-hexagons, forming new triangles with a finished size of 3". Make 6.


Lay out the 6 triangles, so they form the pinwheel.

Join them in two sets of three.

Join the two sets.

Finished

Hexagon bonus block # 4

This one uses Collection # 3, and - again - Linda has helped out and made a block in a different colour-way to mine.

Finished size is 3" to the side.

Fabric 1 (background)
5.5 x 6.25"

Fabric 2 (focus A)
3.75 x 5"

Fabric 3 (focus B)
4.5 x 5.5"


From page 122 of Collection # 3, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your fabric.
Cut a 5.5 x 6.25" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.
Print 6 diamonds with a 1.5" side.

From page 99 of Collection # 3, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your fabric.
Cut a 3.75 x 5" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.
Print one hexagon with a 1.5" side

From page 143 of Collection # 3, pick the ink-colour that will work best with your fabric.
Cut a 4.5 x 5.5" piece of fabric and same size of freezer-paper.
Iron freezer-paper to the front / right side of the fabric.
Print 6 triangles with a 1.5" side.

Lay your bits out, so you can see that they are all there.

Join the triangles to the side of the hexagon, using one, continuous thread (green arrows on picture to the right)

Join the diamonds to the star, in another, continuous thread (red arrows on picture to the right).

Hexagon bonus block # 3

Uses Collection # 3 and finishes 3" to the side.

This one is called "Madison's Patch". I found the pattern in "The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America", and was fascinated, both with the hexagon shape, and the name.

In quilty circles, first lady Dolly Madison is quite well known, because she has her own star. What is less well known is, that her husband, president Madison, has a patchwork star too.

I am not aware of any other couple - presidential or otherwise - that have each their own quilt-block, so to celebrate the Madisons, here's the simplest of the two stars.

You can use any of the collections that holds both 60-degree diamonds and equilateral triangles; from 0.5" (where the star will finish with 1" sides), over the 1" size in collection 1, to collection 3, where you find the 0.75, the 1.50 and the 2.25" sizes.

I have chosen the 1.5" size from Collection 3, and it might be more economical to print for more than one of these blocks, since the minimum size that most printers can do, is quite a bit larger than what you need to print the measly few bits you need for this block. My printer's minimum size is 3.5 x 5", so I printed in excess for this block.

More versions of this block can be found here.

One block
Fabric 1 (background)
5.5 x 6.25" (6 diamonds)

Fabric 2 (focus A)
3.5 x 6" (3 diamonds)
4.5 x 5.5" (6 triangles)

Fabric 3 (focus B)
3.5 x 6" (3 diamonds)

Two blocks
Fabric 1 (background)
7.5 x 8" (12 diamonds)

Fabric 2 (focus A)
3.5 x 7.75" (4 diamonds)
4.25 x 7" (8 triangles)

Fabric 3 (focus B)
4 diamonds

On p. 122 of Collection 3, pick the colour that works best with your fabrics.
Iron freezer-paper to the right side of each of the 3 fabrics, and print your 3 different colours of diamonds.
On p. 144 of Collection 3, pick the colour that works best with your triangle fabric. Iron freezer-paper to the right side of the fabric, and print.





You can hand-piece this block, without breaking the thread at all !
First follow the green arrows, then the red arrows.
Remember : no sewing into seam-allowances. Stop and pivot at the cross-hairs on every corner.












And as an added bonus : here is Elly's way of doing this hexagon, entirely by machine.

Start by making the centre diamond, and two units each of diamond-triangle, and diamond-triangle-diamond.


Add the diamond-triangle unit to two opposite sides of the centre diamond.

Add the diamond-triangle-diamond unit to the remaining two sides.

Finished !

Hexagon bonus block # 2

The Hexagon Star or Starflower.
Finished side is 3"

- and again Linda has joined me, and have stitched this hexagon in a different colourway.

For still more ways to colour this block, you can see right here.

This block uses collection 3.

Fabric 1 (background)
5.5 x 6.25"

Fabric 2 (focus)
5.5 x 6.25"

This block uses the 1.5" diamond shape found on p. 122 in collection 3.

From this page, pick the ink-colours that work best with your fabrics.

Iron your fabric, to a piece of freezer-paper the same size.

Print.

This block is made like the LeMoyne star, only with 6 star-points rather than 8.

As with the LeMoyne star, to me, the simplest way to do this star, is by hybrid-piecing. I piece the star on the machine, and do all the inset seams by hand.

Machine-piecing :

Join two diamonds.
Press seam to one side.
Add a third diamond.
Press to the same side.

Repeat, making certain that you press the diamonds in the second set, the same way you pressed the diamonds in the first set.



Join the two star halves.
Press, and twirl the centre where 6 seams meet.


Hand-piecing

Join the outside diamonds in one, continuous seam, to the star-shape.

Press.

Finished.