Grandmothers Pride

Quilt Block

Grandmother's Pride

Beginners Guide to how I Rotary Cut

To make this block you need two different fabrics a dark (feature) fabric and a light (background) fabric.  

From the dark (feature) fabric cut:

9 x Two and seven eighth inch squares.

From the light (background) fabric cut:

4 x Two and seven eighth inch squares.

4 x Three and a quarter inch squares -
Cut these squares in half on the diagonal (corner to corner) this gives you 8 triangles. These go around the outer edge of the blog.

And

2 x Two and a quarter inch squares -
Cut these in half on the diagonal (corner to corner) this gives you 4 smaller triangles which form the corners of the block.

Use quarter inch seams throughout. 

How I use my Quarter Inch Foot

Lay the squares and triangles out next to your sewing machine. 

You need to stitch them together in diagonal rows  ( see pics above and below) nice slippers! 

Stitch the rows together

And you'll end up with this.

Quite a neat little Block don't you think?

And you can use it in so many ways.

You could simply add a border and it could become

A cushion front

A Table Mat

A Bag Front

Or

Repeated with Sashing to make a little Quilt

Added into a Sampler Quilt

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There's them spotty socks again!

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Fidget Quilts

I hadn't heard of Fidget  Quilts until a few months ago.  And once I had I wanted to find out what they were. A Google search quickly educated me about them.
They are small lap sized quilts (about 20") with items such as buttons, zips, pockets etc securely stitched on for the recipient to fiddle with and so sooth restless hands.
Typically they are made for people with Alzheimers/dementia or any other condition where the user would be comforted by occupying restless fingers.

Coincidentally at around the same time a friend of mine asked if I knew anyone who made Fidget Quilts as she wanted one for her mum. Of course I jumped at the chance to make her one myself.

I then took it to my Quilting class to encourage others to make them.
They are lovely projects to make. They don't take too long and you get to be quite creative and playful. 
The three pictured are my original one and the first two that class members have made.