The Desperate Housewife’s Quilt – Block 19 Lightning

Welcome to week 19 of the ‘The Desperate Housewife’s Quilt’. Todays block is about foundation piecing. I cannot get enough of this technique. It has unlimited possibilities. 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. Also, I have this nifty button under each post that allows you to save the post as a PDF.

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Be sure to visit this week’s Guest Blogger and their wonderful block.

My guest this week is Lauren from I Want to Cut you blog. Lauren has made this fab block called ‘Burst’

Make sure you pop over and have a look at this great block.

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Lightning

The storm season is upon us. Unplug your computers, store the torches and candles.

Techniques explored

Foundation Piecing

Materials

Small pieces of blues and yellows.

Making the block

In previous blocks I have shown the technique I use for foundation piecing. The important steps are:

Use a very small stitch so you can rip off the paper easily when done
Cut your seams back to 1/4″as you go
Press with a dry iron as you go

The foundation template for the block can be found here . Remember, do not scale or ‘Fit to Page’

Let’s Play

The Block – 8″ finished

On Point with rotation and colour play

Horizontal Layout with rotation

Horizontal with rotation

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks block. Next week it will something to be thankful for.

*** 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 ***