Shoofly quilts

Classic Quilt Blocks have been sewn for centuries, are easy to recognise and are every quilters favorite. Let's celebrate these gorgeous blocks and add them to our sewing projects! Welcome to Week Three of my Shoo Fly Classic Quilt Blocks series. My goal is to inspire you to create your own Shoo Fly quilt, so I've put together some variations of the block and some layout options for setting the blocks to use as ideas - these are for inspiration purposes only, no patterns! Let's be honest…

My husband's aunt, Margaret Elizabeth Betty Gray, died in June of last year at the age of 88. Her husband, Connor, was the older brother of Gordon's father, Gordon, Sr. Betty and Connor built a waterfront home on Mercer Island in the 50's and lived there until their deaths. Gordon's parents and

"The Shoo Fly Quilt Block, known for its simplicity and timeless appeal, has graced quilting projects for generations. Make this in 3 sizes. This square is generally considered suitable for beginners and intermediate quilters. Its construction involves basic piecing techniques like sewing straight seams and making half-square triangles. Despite its straightforward construction, this beloved block boasts a rich history and goes by various aliases, including Eight Cornered Box, Fifty Four…

Piece N Quilt: How to: Shoofly Quilt Block - Basics Quilt Block Tutorials

The shoo fly quilt block is a variation of a nine patch using both half square triangles and squares. This tutorial is complete with step-by-step pictures, video and a cutting chart for 4 different block sizes.

Disappearing Shoofly Quilt – Missouri Star Blog

We have cooked up some fun little patchwork projects. Covered (broken) Dish | Shoofly Pie | Summertime Squares For Covered (broken) Dish | Finished Size 12" x 13-1/2" From the sewing room of Temecula Quilt Co | Serves 1 Ingredients Pattern | Fabric for top | Back and binding Get cooking today order a kit or a set of Recipe Cards here For Shoofly Pie | Finished Size 13" x 15-1/4" From the sewing room of Temecula Quilt Co | Serves 1 Ingredients Pattern | Fabric for top | Back and binding Get…

82.5 by 95 inches block finishes 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches The background is cut four pieces 4 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches, two pieces 2 by 3 1/2 inches, and 2 pieces 2 by 4 1/2 inches. The shoo fly is cut from solids, one square 2 inches, and four squares 2 1/2 inches. The larger squares are sewn onto the larger rectangles in the sew-and-flip method. Block is sewn in three columns. All pressing is away from the triangles. In sewing blocks together, I only matched the corners, not the internal block…

Completed my Scrap Happy Shoofly Feb 2019! It was stuck in my 800 quilts that needed binding pile and the goal in 2019 is to get those done. I washed it and put on my bed! Below are some other photos of it in progress and the block pattern Gathering the fabric to start organizing each block made it so fun to sew them up! I am doing a lot of writing.. and when I'm doing a lot of writing my brain shifts gears and can pretty much either write.. or surf the internet.. yes.. that's how it works…