BLOCK SWAP CHALLENGE

🎉🎉🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉🎉🎉

The beginning of a new year is a great time to start a new group project. Let's make 9-patch blocks for quilts for veterans.

It will be a monthly BLOCK SWAP CHALLENGE.

Here's how it will work: 

Make TWO 9-patch blocks each month, you keep one and bring the other one to our meeting to be swapped with someone else's block. (We will draw numbers to make the swap.) The two blocks you make each month use the same fabrics.

GUIDELINES:

Cut 1 red 3-1/2" square (any red)

Cut 4 dark 3-1/2" squares (let's use green, blue and brown fabrics - NO black)

Cut 4 light 3-1/2" squares (light fabrics, but NO white)

Your finished block will measure 9-1/2"

It will be fun to have a good assortment of blocks, and at the end of the year we will each have our 12 blocks and 12 from the swap. With those blocks there are all sorts of ways of setting them together to make a quilt for a veteran. 

Make your blocks with several fabrics or limit it to just two. Examples, below.

                                                     Example 1                                                                      

                                                    Example 2

I hope we get good participation in this project - the more the merrier, right?  No need to sign-up, if you want to be part of this, just bring a 9-patch block to the monthly meeting to swap!

Throughout the year, let's all be on the lookout for interesting ways to use the blocks - there are many - and we will share them with others. 

Let's talk more about it at our January 14 meeting. 

And remember, if Hanover County Schools close, we do not have a meeting.