Hello Quilters! Another month has snuck past us and it's time for the Fall 2021 CiL Block Drive. For September and October I thought we could reprise an old block drive from 2016 when many of you hadn't joined us yet.
The block is called a "tall nine patch" and you can find the tutorial for it here. Last time we made the blocks in a really light color combination. If you want to see how those quilts came out you can find them here and here.
This time I think we'll make the blocks in a saturated Fall color palette. Please draw your inspiration from the colors below.
So that's it, simple. Follow this tutorial in the color palette above.
I can't wait to see all your blocks! I have to admit I'm partial to the drives where you can't tell where one block ends and the next begins.
For anyone new to Covered in Love, we run these block drives every two months. Anyone can participate and make as few or as many blocks as you like. Email CoveredinLoveTx@gmail.com for the address and get your blocks in the mail by the end of October. Our blocks are combined together into quilts to be given to the families of dying patients in East Texas hospitals.
Thanks for sharing the secret of how those quilts were made. LOVE the colors you've chosen for the Fall Block Drive! Hoping to get my new studio up and running so that I can make a block (or 2 or 10.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this block. I hope to make at least a couple of them for you.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually tend to use these colors, so it will be good for me to stretch my color muscles, so to speak. I'll make some.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to pull some colors that I might have to make a few of these. I don't have a lot in these colors but think they will make beautiful fall quilts. Now that we have reached Sept. 1, I'm really thinking & wishing for an early fall around here.
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ReplyDeleteI'm on it!!! Such wonderful fall colors and perfect to cheer us up as summer ends. I can smell the pumpkin spice already!!!
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ReplyDeleteOh em gee
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite blocks
Easy peasy:-)
Love the block! Love the original colors! I have zero fabrics that match the fall drive. Not my colors for sure. Guess I will have to go shopping!
ReplyDeleteOk. Colorscare gorgeous! Enough to light a fire 😃 to get more quilts done so i can play along on this one!
ReplyDeleteI remember how gorgeous the quilts made with this block turned out! Looking forward to seeing them in this lovely autumnal palette :)
ReplyDeleteI'm having a hard time transferring the original colors to the fall colors. Can someone help? I love the block
ReplyDeleteDorothy, just forget about the original colors completely and look for fabrics in the fall colored scheme instead
DeleteOK Thanks, it makes it simpler for my "pea brain" :-)
DeleteHope you are getting a break at the hospital
Yay, I have a good selection of these colors. Is it okay to use prints with pattern to them (like leaves, fall flowers) and not just blenders?
ReplyDeleteI missed sending stars as t was too hot in my studio to sew much this summer (no AC here).
Pat