Make a Unique Quilt Block with ScanNCut
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One of the quilt guilds that I belong to is gathering 100 Ruby Red Blocks.
The basic idea is to create a small quilt or quilt block -- made up of red and white fabrics only -- which will be attached to a canvas.
Each of these blocks will be sold
at the show to benefit the guild.
I decided to spend an afternoon putting mine together.
I started by creating
an owl file by importing
a free clip art design (just do a web search for "free owl clip art" to find your own owl!) into
ScanNCutCanvas.
I edited the file and pulled apart the various pieces of the owl so that I had a series of shapes to cut.
The process is similar in this video:
As you can see, my pieces didn't all fit on the mat, so I ended up cutting the pieces in several
passes.
This was a fine choice because I needed to use a bunch of different fabrics to make my owl.
I first cut
some commercial fabrics:
The ScanNCut did a great job cutting out all those little pieces for the owl.
However, after looking at it, I decided that I had cheated.
There were blacks and golds and nothing was really white except for the background.
The problem was, I just didn't have enough red fabrics....what to do?
I could have gone shopping, but you know how it is when you're in the middle of a project.
Who wants to leave the house?!
So, I painted some plain white fabric with red and white paints and cut out my owl parts once again:
Much better!
I even painted some white-on-white fabric pieces and pieced four patterns together to create my background:
Then, I did a bit of raw edge applique and added some borders of commercial fabric, according to the guild instructions for the blocks.
You can see the stitching a bit more easily in this photo:
I think it turned out super cute!
The painted fabric makes this project totally "me."
And the ScanNCut made the whole thing quick and easy.
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