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I love colour. I enjoy choosing different color palettes across multiple mediums and using then in quilt designs, paintings / drawings or interior design. My favorite part is pulling fabric for a particular colour palette.

I am in the process of planning a blog series, starting January 2016, where we can focus on a particular colour each month. The blog series will include:

fabric pulls using the focus colour of the month (include name, designer, manufacturer)
color theory
inspiration sources
reference / research material (across multiple disciplines)
guest posts
Link-ups for activities

I hope we can have a lot of discussion, share, learn and have fun together. I am excited to get started. Stay tuned, more details to follow.

If you are interested in doing a guest post, please contact me at ml_wilkie (at) hotmail (dot) com.

This block tutorial comes from this quilt I designed “Through the shattered Looking-glass”. It uses a collection of scrappy improv blocks.

A single block can be any size but is made up of scraps that are sewn together with 1/4″ sashing, like so.

Tutorial:

Here are the steps I used to build a block.

Depending on the size of your block, use painters tape to mark out the edges of your block on a design wall (in this picture I just used a piece of batting). This is a technique I learnt from Nicole @ Mama Love Quilts.
Take scraps that are between 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 inches of various sizes, and shades/values of the color you chose and start laying them out within your marked area. Overlap your edges of your scraps to take into account for the 1/4 inch seams.
Take a photo of the layout to use while you sew.
When laying your pieces out try to take into consideration the construction of the block, you want areas that can act as straight lines.
Cut some white 3/4 inch sashing strips (Kona White). Based on your smaller quadrants you, take one blue piece and sew some sashing on one side. Trim. Take the next neighboring blue piece and sew to the other side of the sashing. Add sashing along your next side. Here are 3 quadrants (A, B, C) and the numbers represent the order in which I added the piece/sashing. Please Press your seams open as you go (this helps with the bulk of the seams).
Repeat, until block is at the size you want and trim to square the block.