Patience Puzzle Gallery
Scarlett's Celtic applique block design, Patience Puzzle, is block #249 on page 50 in the spring 2011 issue #3 of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine. The May 2011 100 Blocks Blog Tour visited many of the block designers' blogs and websites and this site was featured on May 6th. If you missed any of the previous issues of this series, you may still be able to buy them from Quiltmaker or get the digital versions directly from Quiltmaker.com.If you make any projects using Patience Puzzle, please email a picture to Scarlett and she will be happy to post it in this gallery!
Glendale Quilt Guild of Glendale, CA - January 12, 2012 workshop
Colleen's tablerunner |
Asian print tablerunner |
Blue stripe tablerunner |
Batik tablerunner |
Ann's Celtic Rose block. Ann took a workshop from Scarlett about 12 years ago and she made this block. She brought it to the Patience Puzzle workshop to share. Ann choose to work on the Celtic Circuits center block design during class. |
Orange stripe tablerunner |
Chester Piecemakers of Chester, CA - August 7, 2011 workshop
Sports theme |
Large scale print |
Dark background with bright colors |
Here are six of the nine blocks made in this class. Some students are thinking of making three or more blocks with their chosen fabrics so that they will have a longer tablerunner. |
Here's the block from another student, with the setting triangles that will be used for the tablerunner when the second matching block is finished.
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Here's some ideas for quilts that you can make using Patience Puzzle. Scarlett used EQ7 to design some quilt layouts for you. The fabrics are various types; prints, batiks, etc., from assorted manufacturers, since these quilts were designed with fabrics downloaded for EQ7.
OriginalEQ7 graphic of two blocks set on point. |
Sample tablerunner made by Scarlett |
A batik version - EQ7 |
Reproduction fabrics, scrappy - EQ7 |
For a small project, Scarlett made two Patience Puzzle blocks, set them on point and added bias strips in the ditch, matching the bias' fabric colors. This small quilt or tablerunner measures 18" x 36".
Here's a 16 block layout of Patience Puzzle. If you twist and turn the blocks so that the colors of bias tape line up, you get an overall pattern of linked rings. This layout uses the 4 colors of bias as shown in 100 Blocks, but with two yellows/golds and two tans/browns. If you use only 4 fabrics for the outside strips around each block, then you'll also get a secondary pinwheel pattern in the patchwork.
Here's an on point layout for Patience Puzzle. This EQ7 layout has 2 colors of bias, so it's easier to match up the blocks. The patchwork strips around the blocks were placed at random.
