Strips galore quilts – video tutorial

It’s strip time.

These 3 tutorials will show you how to make quilts using strips of fabric, either scraps or coordinated ones.

My book Turnabout Patchwork

“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.

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Hidden wells with 4 strips and ombre colours – video tutorial

Hidden wells is one of my favourite quilts. This technique was developed by Mary Ellen Hopkins in 1989 for her Hidden wells quilt. It can be done with a different number of strips in different or equal widths.

This time I’ve tried playing with colour to see what I came up with.

What do you think?

Fabric collection

I made this block as Michael Miller Ambassador and used their silky Cotton Couture solids in Cherry, Clementine, Apricot and Orange  from the Michael Miller Colour wheel fat quarter bundle I received..

Check out other fabric combinations on the video.

Other hidden wells tutorials:

My book Turnabout Patchwork

“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.

• Order Turnabout Patchwork on Amazon.

See all the quilts in the book in a real life project

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From 5 fabric strips to quilt block video tutorial (Hidden wells)

A while ago I made a similar block with 4 fabric strips of the same width. This time I tried with 5 fabric strips of different widths and this is one of the blocks I got.

The choice of fabrics is important. It works best with high contrasting fabrics and colours.

Do you like it?

How to make this block from 5 fabric strips

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Materials

• 1 red 1 3/4 x 10 inch strip
• 1 light green 2 1/2 inch x 10 inch strip
• 1 yellow 3 1/2 x 10 inch strip
• 1 light red 2 1/2 x 10 inch strip
• 1 dark green 1 3/4 x 10 inch strip

Block size

12 1/2 inch square.

Arranging the block

After the tutorial you get 4 pieces, two of each:

Arrange the 4 pieces to make the block:

 

Quilt layouts with this block

Order my book Turnabout Patchwork

“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.

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From 3 fabric strips to quilt block – video tutorial

Another experimental block or blocks this week.

I’m looking to give it a name. Some fellow quilters have suggested a number of them: Half stripped, The Zipper block, Ripper Zipper, Reflections, Chameleon, Disguised, Topsy turvey, Arrows, Tricuadra, The Envelope, Flip-a-Dee-doo-da!, My joy, Strip Tease, Robbins of life, Directions.

This uses the half square triangle (HST) technique again. The results are quite interesting. This is a block that is very versatile and has many possibilities.

How to make this block and others with just 3 strips of fabric

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High contrasting fabrics work best for this type of blocks.

Have a look at some  blocks that can be made with this tutorial (more arrangements can be seen on the video).

Some quilt layouts

From strips to quilt block: two blocks and the same

These two quilt designs are made with the same block. Can you believe that?

Both are made the same way though he result is quite different.

This is how you make them:

Block 1

Block 2

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Block 1

Block 2

You can see more quilt designs for these 2 blocks on these posts that I wrote a while ago:

• Doubly striped HST block
• From strips to quilt block