Activities: block of the month
Block of the Month 2008-2009 features blocks representing various areas of our lovely country. We'll start in New England, travel down the east coast, visit the Adirondack mountains, wade the seashore, smell the wildflowers of the prairie, climb the Rockies, taste the southwest, touch the Arctic, dance through Hawaii and rejoice in arriving home.
Want to come along?
Blocks will include various techniques, from simple piecing to appliqué, embroidery, and paper-piecing. When a difficult block is offered, we'll try to provide a simpler pattern as a second choice.
Here's how it works
Sign-ups begin in July and are limited to 40 members. Each month, for a cost of $2 we will provide participants with a pattern and instructions for the block, along with a fat quarter of neutral tone fabric to use as you'd like.
- Block #3
Carolina
Lily
- Block #2
Amish
Hearts
- Block #1
Maple
Leaf
- Block #6
Corn and
Beans
- Block #5
Swamp
Angel
- Block #4
Fruit
Basket
- Block #9
Hibiscus
- Block #8
Coyote
- Block #7
Delectable
Mountains
Your blocks will be yours to keep so you can use them at the end of the year in a sampler quilt or in whatever way you wish. We'd love to see them, though, so as you finish your block each month, show it to us at our table at the Guild meeting and we'll enter your name in a raffle to win 5 additional fat quarters!
Block of the month runs for 12 consecutive months, starting in July and ending the following June. If you are interested in taking part, please sign up at the BOM table at the July meeting. Please bear in mind that your signature indicates an interest in the whole year's project. If you change your mind and don't want to participate later in the year, please let us know so that someone on the waiting list can take your place.
Thank you! Pat McCandless and Ginny Boan, Co-Chairs