The Desperate Housewife’s Quilt – Block 15 Chocolate Box
Welcome to week 15 of the ‘The Desperate Housewife’s Quilt’. Todays block is about log cabin techniques and adding corners. Remember, this is not a quilt-a-long. Just follow the blog every week and pick and choose which blocks you would like to make. I will be injecting some uniqueness into traditional blocks, applique, three dimensional, crazy and thread-art blocks. If you make a block please post it on the Flickr group for everyone to enjoy.
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Be sure to visit this week’s Guest Blogger and their wonderful block.
This weeks guest is one of the happiest people I know – Melissa from Happy Quilting.
Melissa is a mum of 5 (as of 24th September 🙂 and wife to an amazing husband. They all enjoy living in beautiful Southern Utah, U.S.A. Melissa discovered the on-quilting community about 2 years ago and was hooked. Her love of Quilting and the amazing people that Melissa met through this wonderful on-line community have made her the happy and very successful quilter she is today.
Melissa has created a fun block reminiscent of the Brady Bunch TV Show.
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Chocolate Box
Chocolate is the food of the gods. Decedent and naughty. Calming and exciting.
Techniques explored
- Log cabin
- Adding corners to blocks
Materials
- 5″ x 20″ piece of solid fabric for background
- 3 – 5″ x 5″ pieces of brown fabric, one dark , two light
- 2 – 2″ assorted coloured squares for centres
Cutting
From the background solid cut:
- 2 – 4 1/2″ x 4 1/2′ squares
- 8 – 1 1/2″ squares
For the centre trim down the 2 – 2″ assorted coloured pieces to 1 1/2″ squares
From the light brown 5″ squares cut”
- 4 – 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ rectangles
- 4 – 2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ rectangles
From the dark brown 5″ square cut:
- 4 – 2 1/2″ x 1″ rectangles
- 4 – 1 1/2″ x 1″ rectangles
Making the corners ( snowball )
- Place a 1 1/2″ square on one corner of the 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ rectangle and draw a diagonal line across the 1 1/2″ background square
- Sew on this line.
- Fold back the square to form a triangle
- Press and trim back to 1/4″ any excess fabric.
- Repeat for other end. Make 4.
Making the chocolate
- Sew the dark brown 1 1/2″ x 1″ rectangles to the top and bottom of the centre square. Press the seams to the darker fabric.
- Sew the dark brown 2 1/2″ x 1″ rectangles to the sides of the centre square. Press seams to the dark fabric.
- Make sure the block is square ( 1 3/4″ )
- Sew the light brown 2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ rectangles to each side. Press seams out.
- Sew the light brown 4 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ rectangles with corners to the top and bottom. Press seams out.
- The block will measure 4 1/2″ square.
Assembling the block
- Sew a chocolate block to a solid block to make row 1
- Sew a solid block to a chocolate block to make row 2
- Sew the rows together matching seams
Let’s play
The centres of this block can be many colours to reflect a box of assorted cream filled chocolates.
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| The Block |
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| On Point |
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| Horizontal Layout |
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| Horizontal Layout with random replacement by solid block |
I hope you enjoyed this weeks block. Next week I will be getting in the spirit of Halloween.
*** Copyright 2011 Jane Davidson. Please remember that these blocks and any blocks designed by guest bloggers should not be used for commercial purposes ( sold as a pattern, published etc) without the written consent of the owner ***
