Your April Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles (3 this month!)

Welcome to another group of quilt jigsaw puzzles from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in this month’s puzzles were all entries in the 2010 New From Old quilt contest and featured in this video, the first in our Label Love series.

Tip: for best results, solve the puzzles on a desktop computer or laptop. If you are solving on a mobile device, click on the puzzle piece icon in the lower righthand corner to solve on the Jigsaw Planet website.

Grandmother’s Curtains
by Star and Sophia Prim of Huntsville, Utah

A combination of vintage, recycled and new cotton fabrics, wool felt, beads, hand
applique, machine applique, hand-stitching, machine quilting.

When my daughter was three and money was tight, I made her a simple dress out
of some old vintage curtains. She loved it, and I loved seeing her in it, knowing that
it cost nothing and I had given new life to something old. Looking out the window, you can see a little
girl wearing her new spring dress made from the same fabric as grandma’s curtains.

My New Sues
by Kathy Guardia of Grottoes, Virginia

Vintage feedsack fabric, my own handdyed fabrics with some commercial fabric –
hand applique turned and raw edge – hand embroidery; machine quilted

20 years ago I found this treasure in the bottom of a cardboard box full of fabric purchased at an estate sale in Florida. A dingy plastic bag with one completed Sunbonnet Sue sewn on a stained dishtowel and about a dozen Sues cut out of vintage feed sack fabrics never finished. So I introduced the Vintage Sues to my hand dyed fabrics and a few commercial pieces to come up with My New Sues.

Pink Basket 2010
by Mark Lipinski of Califon, New Jersey

Vintage hand pieced basket block, ribbon and floss embellishment, completed with new
fabrics.

I found this vintage, hand-pieced, 1930’s pink basket block for $6 at an antique shop, The Rusty
Rooster, during a teaching/lecture engagement for The Washington Stars Quilt Guild in Olympia,
Washington in May 2010. Scheduled to lead a quilting retreat at the Thunder Bay Resort in Hillman,
Michigan in June, I brought the block with me and with some support from my fellow retreaters (and in
traditional quilt-making style), we managed to design and quilt this new block from the old.

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Welcome to another quilt jigsaw puzzle from Quilt Alliance! The beautiful quilts in the puzzles have all been entries in past Quilt Alliance quilt contests. Be sure to sign up for our blog notifications, so that you don’t miss any of the upcoming puzzles.

How To Trim Flying Geese Without A Specialty Ruler

If you don’t have a Bloc-Loc ruler, you may find trimming these flying geese challenging. But by following these steps, you should be able to get four accurate geese in each color!

First, line up your ruler so the point of the flying geese unit will be trimmed exactly ¼” above the point. Try to line the unit up as straight as possible on the other three sides.

Next, flip the unit over. Line up the edge you just cut on the 2” line of the ruler as shown below, and trim the excess from the top.

Flip the unit right side up again. Line the lower left corner up with the 3 ½” mark on your ruler as shown above. Trim the excess on the right.

Finally, flip the unit over again so the point is pointing towards the 2” line. Align the left edge of the unit with the 3 ½” ruler mark as shown above and trim the excess on the right. Your flying goose unit is now ready to be pieced into your block!

Quilt Documentation Tip

Andrea’s block story is all about the importance of quilt guilds. Quilting can feel solitary, but guilds bring us together. It’s a topic of conversation that was discussed with two Birthday Block of the Month Designers in a recent Textile Talk where the participants all shared emotional stories about their love for their guilds.

Did you know that your guild can document your quilts as a group? Consider hosting a quilt documentation day in your guild! Follow these instructions and have members share three minute stories about one meaningful quilt in the Quilt Alliance’s signature Go Tell It documentation program. You could even host a screening so all of your members can see the videos! Get in touch at: qsos@quiltalliance.org

See You in October for Month Seven!

Thank you so much to everyone who has participated in the Quilt Alliance’s Birthday Block of the Month so far! Our designer for next month, the seventh block we’re making together, is Bonnie Hunter herself!

Be sure to tag @quiltalliance and @3rdstoryworkshop on Instagram with your block photos this month, and use the hashtag #QuiltAllianceBOM. And leave any questions about this month’s block in the comments below!

4 Comments

Le Rowell on May 2, 2020 at 2:02 am

Bring on the puzzles. So much fun to see Mark Lipinski’s quilt to solve! Thanks!
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- Amy Milne on June 17, 2020 at 2:14 pm
  
  Thanks, Le! xo
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Darlene Summerton on June 17, 2020 at 1:36 pm

Just finished the puzzle that Kathy Guardia submitted. We have been friends for 30 years and found out this week that she is dying. She is a true artist always using all medias to create. Silk, paper, leather, you name it she would try to create something outstanding. She will be missed!
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- Amy Milne on June 17, 2020 at 2:15 pm
  
  We are so sorry to hear this, Darlene. Thanks for sharing.
  Reply

Your April Quilt Jigsaw Puzzles (3 this month!)

Grandmother’s Curtains by Star and Sophia Prim of Huntsville, Utah

My New Sues by Kathy Guardia of Grottoes, Virginia

Pink Basket 2010 by Mark Lipinski of Califon, New Jersey