The time has finally arrived. Whether you are cutting your Nautical blocks to the Tumbler shape or leaving them whole, it’s time to start assembling your blocks.
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Category: 2013 Sampler Quilt Blocks
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Nautical Tumble: Assembly
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Nautical Tumble: Marking, Stitching, Cutting The Tumbler/Thimble Shape
My idea for setting these blocks has been to trim them to Tumbler/Thimble shapes and now is the time to do the trimming!
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Nautical Tumble Block 25 – Tall Ship S.S. Quilter
Oh! This has been fun! These blocks have sure been an adventure. Thanks for sailing along with us as we have tumbled through these Nautical blocks. And though this is our 25th and final block, the Tumbler Trimming instructions will go up tomorrow (FINALLY!) and the setting instructions for this beautiful quilt will be up next Saturday! So don’t sail off into the sunset yet! (more…)
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Nautical Tumble Sampler Quilt Block 24 – Fish Tales
We need some fish in this Nautical Tumble Quilt, don’t you think? So this block has a whole SCHOOL!
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Nautical Tumble Quilt – Block 23 – Pelican
“A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.”
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Nautical Tumble Quilt: Block 22 – Number Signal Flags
This is so much fun! This block allows you to send a coded message to the future at the same time you are giving a glimpse of history!
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Nautical Tumble Sampler Quilt Block 21 – Shipping Lanes
We are revisiting the Log Cabin quilt genre with our Shipping Lanes Block this week. A few weeks block we did the Hatches of Patches BullsEye Log Cabin Block. Shipping Lanes is just the same… But Totally Different!
This Log Cabin has a Fields and Furrows set where every other block is turned 180 degrees. The result looks like those Shipping Lanes found in certain areas of the open sea (to me!)
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Nautical Tumble Sampler Quilt 20 Island Porthole
This block is a bit different. Instead of things concerned with a ship, this is the view from the ship. The island is my rendition of Santa Catalina Island… you know, 26 miles across the sea… from the SoCal coast. It may not be a perfect likeness, just my impression of beautiful Catalina!
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Nautical Tumble Quilt: Block 19 – 9 or 16 Hourglasses
Time is running out… Better make some Hourglasses! This block has some options… (more…)
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Nautical Tumble Sampler Quilt: Block 18 – Lyle Hess Cat Boat
Isn’t this a handsome boat? Just made for a leisure day exploring the coastline… The gentle sea, magnificent rocks, and a good companion. Maybe that is what Lyle Hess, the Southern California Boat designer, had in mind when he designed this 16 foot beauty. I know a day like that is what I was thinking about as I made my block!