August 2009 Challenge: Rotate and Fussy Cut! (Page 1)

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Designed for club EQ challenge, August, 2009: Rotate and Fussy Cut!

The "official" name for the applique block in the center is "Plumes," according to the entry in the EQ6 block library. But the figures have always looked like carrots and celery to me. The border print by Andover was the inspiration.

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

Designed for club EQ challenge, August, 2009: Rotate and Fussy Cut!

The Kaleidoscope fabric by Hoffman was the inspiration for this quilt design. It was a fun challenge to arrange (fussy cut) the print to create the swirly designs, which are more evident in an enlarged view.

St. Charles, Illinois, USA

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This quilt was originally developed as a challenge for my local guild using a charm pack. Using all the fabrics in the pack made the file too big for the challenge, so I had to limit the number of fabrics.

Springfield, MO.

Digital fabric for this contemporary quilt was designed by Barbara Gilstad

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

This is a block from the Dear Jane quilt collection. I've used the same fabric throughout for the appliqued block and border, "fussy cutting" to bring out the different elements. Added one other border accent (black) and a background fabric (palest blue).

Robert Kaufman Florentine fabric fussy cut into 90 degree triangles. I think the blue setting squares really set off the golds.
This quilt won a blue ribbon in the 2009 Florida State Fair.

Tampa Florida

Whenever I see a flock of chickens, I think of the delightful song, "Pick a Little, Talk a Little" from Meredith Wilson's 1962 movie "The Music Man".

I drew a block with a large center square out-lined with flying geese. I popped the fabric 'Farmyard' by Makower U.K. in the center amd used coordinating solid colors to surround it. This might make a good display quilt for a collection of novelty fabrics but I used only one fabric in this quilt to keep the file size down.

Sunnyside, Washington

This is the type of quilt I make as small gifts. It measures only 11.5" square and the inner 'border' is paper-pieced, making it easy to sew.

For the center, I started with "Two-Tone Shoe" from the EQ library and tweaked it. The fabrics used are 'Asian Harmony' by Lonni Rossi and 'That's it Dot-Black/Misc. Collections' by Michael Miller Fabrics L.L.C., both in the EQ fabric library.

I did simple 90º fabric rotations and positioned them with fussy-cut.

Sunnyside, Washington

I learned two new tools, Fussy Cut and Rotate Fabric

Plano, TX USA

This is actually a quilt that I have just finished. I found the fabric online so I could use the real thing when I was designing. I used both rotate fabric and fussy cut tools.

Bracebridge, ON Canada

I saw this quilt on a Fons and Porter quilt show and fell in love with it. So I drew it into EQ so I could have a perttern for it. I love indigo's and oak leaf patterns. It was a challenge drawing the oak leaves.

The stripes on diagonal brought a whole new feeling to this quilt.

At the last minute, I had to add the Chief in applique -- it just wasn't complete without him.

Guildford, England

This is named after the very pretty fabric which features a young girl in an orchard (perhaps). Anyway, I thought this was a fabric that cried out for the fussy cut tool, and I liked the idea of using it in both colourways. The Kaffe Fasset striped fabric in two complementary colours uses the rotate and fussy cut tool to create "windmills" in the corners between the blocks.

Guildford, England

I'm not sure why, but I drew these blocks even though I am sure they are already in the library. I designed this quilt some time ago, so maybe I just wanted the drawing practice!

Anyway, I wanted something simple that would show off the large scale and border print used here. Using the rotate and fussy cut tools, I was able to place the fabric in the border so that it looks like two separate borders, but is in fact just one large one.

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

Portland, Oregon

Washington State

This cardinal fabric was in my stash, so when I discovered it in the EQ6 Fabric library, I started to play with the fussy cut tool. The striped print creates a nice picture frame when rotated.

North Eastern Ontario

I like using striped fabric in quilts as it gives movement to the design. I rotated and fussy cut the stripe fabric to create the background behind the circles. For the flowers I traced a picture of the large flower from the floral fabric to create a motif. I placed the applique motif on the quilt and then colored it with the large floral fabric fussy cutting the fabric so the flower fit on the applique.

Ontario, Canada

Another quilt that I've actually made! The 4-patch "posie" blocks were constructed as described in the "4-patch Stacked Posies" pattern, but they were used in this layout that I designed. The actual quilt was made using a quilt-as-you-go method, so I could quilt each block separately before the quilt was assembled. The backing blocks are courthouse step blocks (hence the name), and the construction makes the quilt coompletely reversible.

I cleaned up my original design project for this challenge (I had only created the kaleidoscope effect in a few of the blocks in my original design), and "removed" the quilting motifs that I had placed over the 4-patch posie squares, as they obscured the kaleidoscope effect.

The posie fabric in this quilt is the actual fabric that I used in my quilt.

Toronto, Canada

This is an EQ experiment that I have actually made in fabric! When I purchased the "4-Patch Stacked Posie" pattern, I wanted to try the technique on a small project before attempting a full-sized quilt, so I used fabrics from my stash, and constructed this table runner. I found fabrics in EQ that were similar to those I had in my stash, and was able to rotate and fussy cut the print to see the kaleidoscope effect of the 4-patch stacked posies.

The triangle ends of the runner were constructed as suggested by Barb Vlack in the September 2002 EQ Challenge. Because of the design, the "blocks" on the end show as 5-patch kaleidoscope blocks, but I actually used 5 of the 4-patch squares when making this quilt.

Toronto, Canada

Sparks, Nevada USA

Sparks, Nevada USA

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