Thursday, February 9, 2012

Broken Dishes Block

I finished another block for our Underground Railroad quilt, called Broken Dishes.  I'd really like to find out someday how this block got it's name.  It must be a funny story.  Years ago when I learned to quilt, I made a template, cut it out and put the block together by hand.  This took a long time. As so many of you know, we have new and faster ways to do this now.  There are even many tutorials that are shown on the internet.  I took some pictures of one faster way as I put this block together for the ladies in my group.

3 comments:

  1. Etty, it's funny that we both used the same fabrics for this block. I did mine by making 4" strips and sewd diagonally along the strip. Fast and Easy.

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  2. Nice job!I haven't made this block yet, or it's not in my Underground Railroad book. I might add it anyway! Does it come out to be 12 1/2 inches square?

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  3. I remember before there were such tools as rotary cutters. Now as I look back how antiquated we were in our methods. I so appreciate progress.

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