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DK Quilt Guild: Sets and Borders [1]
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Date: 2025-06-22
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I’m getting geared up for another summer of sewing kid-sized quilts to donate, and as always, I don’t do well with repetition. So when I found a book that was just about different ways to put blocks together, I have decided to try a couple ideas. It’s Sensational Sets and Borders” edited by Sally Schneider, with 6 authors and a contributing editor, which likely accounts for the diversity of ideas.
The first one I wanted to try was “Twist and Turn” — when I Googled that, there were several different patterns shown, but the one this book referred to looked like this:
It sets blocks on a slight angle, that is (theoretically) adjustable by the quilter. I ran into problems almost immediately, though — instructions say to make the narrow triangles by adding 5.5” length to whatever length the block is. The example was a 6.5” block, add 5.5” and get 12” for the long rectangle to be cut diagonally for triangles. This was my first practice attempt, with a 4.5” square:
As you can see, there is almost half the triangle not used. In their example, it looks like there’s no more than 2” extra. So I don’t think their “set length” of 5.5 inches is correct. But I’m not sure how to calculate what is correct. The book does include a “troubleshooting and hints” page for each segment, but it doesn’t address my problem:
Has anyone else tried this kind of off-kilter block set? I’d love to know what I’m doing wrong. In general this book is really wonderful — full of illustrations and measuring hints. OTOH, this is the first one I’ve tried, so maybe their measuring isn’t so accurate. 😄 I will be trying other ideas in this book later.
I need to make the quilts simple enough to finish a bunch before Xmas. Here’s one basic center block that I will fill out with sashing:
Kids love animal quilts, and I got a lot of charm quilt squares from my cousin, so I’m trying to mix and match them.
What are all of you up to? This is an open thread.
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