Susie's Sunroom: Patchique block #25

Monday, July 21, 2014

Patchique' Blocks 25 and 125

Sewing Along with Amanda, The Patchsmith

This week's Patchique' blocks were enjoyable for me to make. They do have some tricky parts in them, but luckily for me, Amanda, The Patchsmith, made the blocks first. She then looks the directions over and figures out the best way to make each block!

Block #25: Chigai igeta (Staggered igeta) (inspired by a family crest)

Block #25 Chigai igeta from the book Japanese Taupe Quilts page 49

Now when you look at this block in the book, it is very difficult to see differences between the two dark brown fabrics in this design. Her diagram was not much help on this pattern, either. But, Amanda figured out how to make hers, and then blogged about it. This is her pretty Block #25 ( a fusion of English country and Japanese colors and style): I love her fabrics!

Block #25 by The Patchsmith

Ahhh, now I can see the 'staggering.'

So I got busy, printed out Amanda's block, labeled the sections so I could sew the pieces together.....

I made my block, laying it right beside a picture of Amanda's block, with the blocks numbered in a grid.
I confused myself, because I made my light fabric assigned to Amanda's dark fabric in the picture. And visa versa.

I looked and all of the edges all lined up nicely. YAY!
Uh-oh. Did you see my mistake?
I didn't put the sections together in the right order. Boo!

Fortunately, I could rip out the seams easily on the bigger sections, and re-join them in the proper order!

Block #25 Staggered igeta Susie's Sunroom

It was well worth taking the time to fix the design.

Block #125: Kano rinpo (means Kano treasure wheel) (family crests featuring plants, leaves and objects)

Block #125 from Japanese Taupe Quilts page 107

Amanda's directions made this block a breeze. I found two Tupperware lids the perfect size of 7 inches and 4 1/2 inches in diameter, to make my donut circle.