The most common type of all quilts must surely be those made of small pieces of fabric stitched together - with the appliqué quilts coming in second place.
I have no idea how many patterns there are for pieced blocks but I guess there are thousands and thousands. I am sure you have heard names like Log Cabin, Double Wedding Rings, Tumbling Blocks, Drunkard's Path, Star of Bethlehem, The School House...
Here are a few examples from the shows at Tokyo Dome:
So for the 13th Green Man block I give you a postage stamp-style block. This type of quilt is made of very small pieces, as the name suggests, and usually of many different prints all jumbled together - a true scrap quilt.
Mine is slightly different, I have used the small size of the pieces, but have selected the fabric carefully and built the face of the Green Man with them. I used remnants from an old corduroy shirt, too. It is not the easiest of fabrics to include in patchwork, especially on this scale. The pieces, which measure 2cm x 2cm, are all hand stitched. There are squares and a few triangles, and the mouth is made out of three small rectangles, that together measure 2 x 2 cm. For the eyes, I used Japanese tenugui fabric.
To be continued...
6 comments:
2cm blocks! That's really tiny to work with but they do make a good Green Man.
This is another interesting block.
That has worked splendidly, but it must have been terribly fiddly!
A different take on the green man, I rather like him.
What a great way to use up small bits of fabric.
Hope you had a really good thimble for all that stitching?
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