Tetris Quilting

On saturday I was fortunate to spend most of the day at the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild. We took along our hand sewing for the first part of the day and then the second half of the day was workshop time. Pure quilting goodness!

In the afternoon I attempted to re-do my attempt at a tetris quilt. Unlike some quilt designs a Tetris quilt isn't very forgiving when it comes to seams lining up and I wasn't happy with what I had done. So I unpicked my 2.5 inch squares and I thought I would try the technique that Elizabeth from Oh Fransson used with her postage stamp quilt.

Using a pen, I ruled out a cube on a piece of iron on interfacing The cube was 6 x6 with each square being 2.5 inches in width and height. Pinned down the bits of fabric and then once I got the design right, pressed them onto the interfacing.

Then I ironed each seam, sewed it and voila! Instant Tetris quilt block within an hour. This block will turn into a pillow and I am thinking of getting some soluble interfacing so that I can use this technique to make a baby quilt with.

What do you think?

Patchwork Posse

Last term I noticed that one of my students was playing Tetris in class rather than doing the Humanities work I had set her. This sparked a conversation about the following post on my blog about the Tetris Quilt.

image via Rabbit style news

I asked her if she would like to learn how to make something like this and she said yes!

So I got her to play the game (outside of class of course) and take a few screen dumps to work out a design. We worked out how much fabric she would need and then I sent her off to get fabric during the "student non attendance period" (ie. school holidays).

And today at lunchtime we have our first "workshop" at lunchtime with my sewing machine, iron and rotary cutter. Our aim is to make a cushion as a trial, providing I am not too busy, every Wednesday Lunchtime might be the goer for our Patchwork Posse ... cheesy but appropriate if you know the student.

I am going to use the "block" method. Nine squares equals a block and see how it goes. Any advice on teaching patchwork?

PS... and talking about Tetris, check out this low-tech version ... can someone in the UK buy it for me and send it to me?

Space Invaders Quilt inspirations

I stumbled across this web site where someone had done a space invaders quilt ... definitely a project that I would enjoy doing!

via by metanoia_cw

I have tracked the development of this quilt through her blog and it is going to look absolutely great! The last post saw The Quilted Hen doing the stippling ... eep! Most sites talk about stippling, but there is a good picture of the set up on her blog.

A bit more searching and look what I found! A Tetris quilt ... and another one!

by leanne_david2004

And I even found a tutorial on how to make one! Too many possibilities!