I just think everyone has done a tremendous job on your quilts! It’s quite amazing, and probably the biggest take-away from this project, how diverse these blocks have turned out, especially considering we worked in small parameters. Good on you!

Amazing blocks, pines!

Thank you, Helen. I was thinking about sashing last night, so will work on that layout today. Karen (gradyk)

pines, I have been loving all your blocks from the very beginning. Anticipating when I will get to see a in-progress layout of all your blocks. You have a wonderfully unique way of making the blocks your own style. I just love it. Looking forward to your Big Reveal. HelenW

Gradyk, Don't give up on your layout. I think it is just a work in progress. When I made this concept idea in EQ8 it did not start out looking like anything I would make, but
after reworking and reworking it, I think in the future I will make it. The black needs a strong presence to make the colors pop against the back ground. Try auditioning it
with different sized sashings in black. HelenW

I am still working on the final blocks for this quilt. It needs 36 total pieced blocks and with these two blocks I have completed 30. I have not been working from the book, but have been using EQ8 to obtain my block patterns. Theese two are 1662c and they come from an add on to the original program called BlockBase by Brabara Brackman. So 1662c on the left and the modified version on the right.


pines/elaine

Thanks Alex, I have enjoyed this project very much. The quilt top is together while I think about borders. I have learned a lot. My biggest takeaway is the glue. I tried it today on a block with curved piecing and I’ll tell you, it was a game changer. I am ready to start the baskets. I have never done them before.

I have spent the weekend working on this amazing quilt. I decided on this block setting. Going to extend the Star points into the border. The white HSTs are on the outer edge. Thinking about a possible further border. Can’t decide yet. I’ll let the quilt tell me.

Love the way the Sequoia Sampler turned out.

This quilt has really challenged me. Some of the Kaffe fabric bundle was way outside of my wheelhouse. However, I kept on making the blocks, learning the color wheel, and stepping way outside of my comfort zone. Alex, you have taught me so much during this process, from pinning, to glueing, to color choices and finally for taking a chance. I knew that this quilt had to be a way for me to express how this pandemic has impacted our lives. I have 2 houses in the quilt. One represents my house, the other, my family and friends who I have seen for a limited time from a far. The blue and green house I had to design and figure out the size of fabric needed for each section. Thank you once again Alex for showing us how to use graph paper to design a block. One block says “we are all in this together....just separately. It has a little mask on it representing the 500+ masks that I made for hospitals, small businesses, and family and friends. And of course I had to put a Quilting Quarantine 2020 block in there The signature block, COVID-19, I did my way. I turned the flying geese to make a star and made the signature portion to read straight rather than on a slant. Now I just need to figure out how I want to quilt it. Thank you Alex! I hope one of the pictures adds properly.

This is the first time I have ever put blocks on point; and to be honest, the first time I have done these types of blocks with flying geese. Not perfect, but they will do. As you can tell, I have fallen in love with the Brassica fabric and decided to make a border out of triangles using the Brassica. Still have the top and bottom to complete , then on to making the back with my leftovers. Maybe the colors are too much??? But I think a pandemic quilt needs to lift my spirits as the colors do.

Made some progress. Will add triangle once rest of quilt laid out. An older applique project, sheep are supervising, lol.

Gradyk. I really like your setting and the black background fabric. Keep working on this as it has promise! For me personally, I might try the Kaffe fabrics for the setting triangles instead of the black. Possibly combine two smaller triangles to form one large setting triangle to continue the color families.

Do to my husband’s health issues, I haven’t been able to sew on the Kaffe and Alex mystery quilt. But I have so enjoyed sharing the journey with everyone and have still learned a tremendous amount. I fully intend to make this quilt someday. Thanks to Alex and everyone who participated and shared their work. I hope people will post pictures of their finished tops.

I still have borders to go but have learned so much! Can’t figure out how to upload pic

I still have borders to go but have learned so much!