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Quilting: 5 L-Block Quilt Tops
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5 L-Block Quilt Tops

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Instructions

DESIGN YOUR OWN L-BLOCK QUILT. All of the designs shown are made with a simple L-block: a square of three to six inches and two rectangles stitched to two adjoining side of the square. The width of the rectangles was anything from one-half to one-fourth the width of the square on the quilts shown, but you need not be limited to those proportions. Try different proportions out on graph paper ...
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Category: Quilting

Type of item: Functional

For: Charity

Style: Mod, Classic


Materials

cotton fabrics

What was your inspiration?

For my charity quilts, I like to keep designs simple enough to be made fairly quickly, yet I feel a need for creativity, so I play a lot on my computer software with very simple blocks I can change and rearrange for interesting designs. Here are just a few of those I've done with a simple L-block.

 

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innerwave on craftsy.com
Mar 23, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Love this one! Through the black fabric it becomes such a depth, that it becomes a three dimensional appearance. The best of it is, that it is so simple. :-)
mary ann on craftsy.com
Feb 17, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
I love this quilt pattern! I am new to crafty and I do quilt. But I am.a pattern follower. Lol. I am not anywhere near designing quilts on my computer. Eeekkk! I have many charm packs and Ilove the quilt with all the white. Could you please let me know a pattern for this? Also of I use a 5 inch square what would I cut my rectangles. Sorry to sound so stupid. Hope to hear from you.
AllThatPatchwor on craftsy.com
Feb 17, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
No need to be apologetic about it. Different people's minds work in different ways. Math has always come easy for me (but Lord help me if I need to learn something highly dependent upon memory.)
AllThatPatchwor on craftsy.com
Feb 17, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
Looking at the second photo above, one can see that the rectangles are about half the width of the square after seams are stitched. Since your 5 inch charm squares would be 4.5 inches after stitching, rectangles would be cut 2.75 inches wide to finish at 2.25 inches. Cut one of them 5 inches long and the second one 7.25 inches long.
AllThatPatchwor on craftsy.com
Feb 17, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
Your finished squares in this case will be 6.75 inches. To decide how many squares you'll need, first decide how large you want the quilt and how wide a border you'd like. Let's say you want a 70 x 90 inch quilt with a ten inch border on all sides. That would mean your blocks should cover a 50 x 70 inch space. Dividing by your 6.75 inch block, that would be 7.4 blocks across by 10.37 down. Since it doesn't come out even, you'd decide whether you want to make it 7 x 10 and make your borders a little wider or 8 x 11 and make your borders a little narrower. So you'd make either 70 or 88 blocks.
Tanya W. on craftsy.com
Feb 15, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Beautiful!
2strings on craftsy.com
Feb 14, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
Wonderfully versatile block. I can't believe how many different layouts you've created! This is an idea I'll definitely copy.
AllThatPatchwor on craftsy.com
Feb 14, 2013   Flag as inappropriate
And this is just the beginning. I have at least half a dozen more I've designed on computer that look very different and that I'm really excited to try. But I have to get many other projects done first.