Colorburst Squares

Today (Wednesday), Thursday and Friday I feature 3 blocks from a quilt I designed about 20 years ago. It was part of a series I called Magic Stax. I chose 10-1/2" squares of different prints (I started with batiks), put them in piles based on the number of patches the resulting block will have (ie, 2-5). I draw the cuts onto a 10-1/2" piece of freezer paper, iron it to the top of the pile and then using my ruler, slice into the pile along the lines. Then I shuffle the patches. Take a look here for my Stained Glass Pickup Stix:

Magic Stax Pickup Sticks

Let's see the blocks for THIS WEEK:

Colorburst Squares quilt

Block #1 made with a current Benartex collection:. Looks like a simple Cobblestone block.

Colorburst Squares #1 - 10"

Block #2 (comes tomorrow). Same size center square but the outer logs are irregular.

Colorburst Squares #2

Block #3 (comes on Friday in the calendar). Only has strips on 3 sides of the center square

And how do these look like in a quilt? I put it together and had it quilted and was donated to my local guild (Reston, VA) for our charity outreaches.

Dancing Squares: 60" x 60"

Tomorrow I'll share more of these quilts in different fabrics. They really are fun!

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