{"id":3943,"date":"2017-03-29T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:29:19","slug":"baby-blocks-and-big-quilt-bee-blocks-2017-03-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2017\/03\/29\/baby-blocks-and-big-quilt-bee-blocks-2017-03-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby blocks and big quilt bee blocks – 2017.03.29"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I’ve been working on blocks for a couple of group projects.<\/p>\n

My guild, the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild, has an ongoing project to make baby quilts<\/a> to give to our members when they have babies.\u00a0\u00a0 The current project is using square in square blocks<\/a> in rainbow colors.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month I made 4 blocks and took them to the guild meeting.\u00a0 We had a table covered with colorful blocks, but I neglected to take a photo of them.\u00a0 This week I made 6 more blocks.\u00a0 They’re quick and easy to make, and I love how they all look together.<\/p>\n

\"VMQG<\/a><\/p>\n

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The second group project I’m working on is Canada\u2019s biggest Quilt Bee<\/a>. \u00a0To celebrate Canada\u2019s 150th birthday, the Canadian Quilting Association is inviting quilters make blocks, quilt tops and\/or finished quilts.\u00a0 The goal is to make and donate 1,000 quilts for kids at Ronald McDonald Houses across Canada.<\/p>\n

The blocks are 12.5\u2033 slab blocks with at least some of the Canada sesquicentennial fabric in each one.\u00a0 On the weekend, I bought some of the Canada fabric, and today I made 6 blocks.\u00a0 They are quick and easy to make, and I’m using fabric out of my scrap collection.<\/p>\n

\"Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

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This was my first opportunity to test my theory about how my new scrap strategy<\/a> will work.\u00a0 I have several 11\u2033 black fabric storage cubes labeled with color cards. Each cube holds 2 jumbo size zip-lock bags full of scraps.<\/p>\n

I pulled out the bag of red scraps and then the one with black scraps.\u00a0 When I was finished sewing the 6 blocks, my cutting table looked like this.<\/p>\n

\"messy<\/a><\/p>\n

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I put all the scraps back in the appropriate bags, and plunked them back in their respective storage cubes.\u00a0 Five minutes later, my cutting table looked like this.\u00a0 It’s working for me!<\/p>\n

\"clean<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks for stopping by.\u00a0 Today, I\u2019m linking up with these blogs \u2013 click on the links below, where you\u2019ll find many other creative projects to inspire you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"Esther\u2019s<\/a> \u00a0 \"Sew<\/a><\/p>\n

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Updated April 14 – linking to this blog celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday:<\/p>\n

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This week I’ve been working on blocks for a couple of group projects. My guild, the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild, has an ongoing project to make baby quilts to give to our members when they have babies.\u00a0\u00a0 The current project … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[62,49,60,18],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wip-wednesday","tag-baby-quilt","tag-cqa","tag-organization","tag-vmqg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-11B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2059,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2014\/06\/21\/weekend-finish-2014-06-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":3943,"position":0},"title":"Weekend finish – 2014.06.21","author":"TerryAske","date":"June 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished my Converging Corners quilt. 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