Pattern Included for Sudoku Quilts
Workshop Details for Sudoku Quilts
Not familiar with Sudoku? No problem! First, we discuss the game and give you a few examples of puzzles to work on. While you complete the puzzles, you can think about how they relate to patchwork quilt blocks.
We consider the simplest Sudoku puzzle and how to use common patchwork quilt block designs to make a quilt based on the puzzles. We introduce basic concepts of reflective symmetry and how they affect the outcome of a quilt design.
Then, we consider using color as a replacement for the numerical identifiers of Sudoku puzzles. Once again, symmetry enters the equation even as we begin comprehending the unlimited possibilities for Sudoku Quilt design. We also play with Modern Quilt colors and ideas for how Sudoku Quilts can satisfy those criteria.
And finally, you learn to design an original asymmetrical quilt block pattern to use for making more complex quilts. If time permits, you can start making your original Sudoku Quilt design as a patchwork quilt top, then carry it home to finish later.
In no time at all, you will see how easy and fun it is to translate any Sudoku puzzle into a design for a patchwork quilt!
Sudoku Quilts is for anyone who loves to play games and wants to try their hand at designing.
We consider the simplest Sudoku puzzle and how to use common patchwork quilt block designs to make a quilt based on the puzzles. We introduce basic concepts of reflective symmetry and how they affect the outcome of a quilt design.
Then, we consider using color as a replacement for the numerical identifiers of Sudoku puzzles. Once again, symmetry enters the equation even as we begin comprehending the unlimited possibilities for Sudoku Quilt design. We also play with Modern Quilt colors and ideas for how Sudoku Quilts can satisfy those criteria.
And finally, you learn to design an original asymmetrical quilt block pattern to use for making more complex quilts. If time permits, you can start making your original Sudoku Quilt design as a patchwork quilt top, then carry it home to finish later.
In no time at all, you will see how easy and fun it is to translate any Sudoku puzzle into a design for a patchwork quilt!
Sudoku Quilts is for anyone who loves to play games and wants to try their hand at designing.
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Supplies for Sudoku Quilts
In Sudoku Quilts, you will design an asymmetrical block of finished dimensions 8" x 8". To do this, you need several sheets of paper; any 8" x 11" paper will do. Additionally, you will need:
The quilt shown above, Dena's "Whirlygig," measured 39" x 39", and it used an 8" square block. You will need enough fabric to make your blocks with appliqué, sashing, and borders to make a quilt of equal size.
In addition to your fabrics, you need:
- A pencil and pencil sharpener or a mechanical pencil
- An eraser
- A pair of paper scissors (please, not your good dressmaker shears!)
- A small roll of masking tape to secure the paper to the work surface
The quilt shown above, Dena's "Whirlygig," measured 39" x 39", and it used an 8" square block. You will need enough fabric to make your blocks with appliqué, sashing, and borders to make a quilt of equal size.
In addition to your fabrics, you need:
- A sewing machine and your usual sewing kit of needles, pins, seam ripper and thread snips, plus whatever other tools you like to use
- Rotary cutting equipment: mat, ruler and cutting knife
- Dressmaker shears
- 1 yard of black, white, or other solid color fabric to use as the background for the appliqués
- 1 1/4 yard of a print fabric to use for the sashing and borders
- A generous handful of scrap fabrics to use for the appliqués
- Approximately 1/2 yard of fusible web or other heat-activated adhesive to secure the appliqué shapes
- Thread to match or contrast for sewing on the appliqués and piecing the quilt top