January general meeting / Challenge Blocks

January 2025 Challenge

It’s a new year – a fresh beginning – and nothing better than starting with a challenge!

We have all made quilts, admired quilts, and thought about the next quilt we want to make. When you are selecting a pattern, do you ever wonder where that particular block or blocks originated? What the history of that block might be? Well, hopefully this challenge will help you with that.

Here is the challenge:

1.        Select a block – any block. It can be traditionally pieced, paper pieced or whatever method you prefer.
2.        Research the history of your chosen block.
3.        Make the block. Use good quilting fabric – any colors will work. The block should measure 8 ½ inches unfinished to measure 8 inches, when incorporated into a quilt.
4.        At the January guild meeting, you will show your block and tell the history of the block. That way we will all learn a little more about the blocks we use to make our quilts.
5.        When selecting your block, don’t worry about someone else making the same block, it will all work out!
6.        We will collect the blocks at the end of the meeting and hopefully will have enough blocks to make at least one charity quilt and perhaps more than one. The quilts will be scrappy and beautiful!
7.        Please accept our challenge and make an 8 ½ inch unfinished block by the January meeting!