Amaze Your Family and Friends with a Quilt Made Using This Block
Most quilters shy away from this block because they think it is "too hard." Using the tips and techniques divulged in this resource, making your quilt will be fun and painless using this intriguing Storm at Sea block. Plus, you can make a traditional-looking quilt or something really fun and modern, using the same block - just by putting the colors in different places.
From: Penny Halgren
Dear Friend, It's easy to have a kind of love-hate relationship with certain quilt blocks. On the one hand, that particular block is really interesting and creates some fascinating illusions when placed side-by-side in a quilt. Yet on the other hand, the block looks like it would present some frustrations when you sew it together. Maybe it is a Drunkard's Path with all of it's curves, possibly it's an appliqued flower, or maybe it is some kind of tree block with a bunch of half-square triangles. Whatever it is, believe me, I know the hesitation. For years, I avoided the Storm at Sea quilt block. The block is full of triangles and diamonds. On their own, that might not be such a challenge, but the thing is that not only do all of the patches have bias edges, but the points are all next to each other, so if your seam allowances aren't just right, the points on the triangles and diamonds get cut off, and the patches and the block look really bad. But, still "that" block lingered in the back of my mind, because I knew it couldn't really be that difficult! After all, quilters without rotary cutters, and fancy measuring devices sewed the block using oil lamps for light!
When I first saw a quilt made with the Storm at Sea block, I was intirgued because it is a block that has only straight seams, yet it looks as if it were made using curved piecing. How fun is that? Still, it looked rather intimidating. But, then, I decided that maybe making it huge would make it easier. And, instead of making a quilt, I would make a pillow cover. Then for the center square, I decided to piece a sailboat block together instead of using a square of fabric, making it somewhat more interesting without adding too much complication. When I decided to try the block, there wasn't a class or workshop. It's as if all the other quilters thought it was too hard, too. I remember sewing and ripping for hours just to get the points right. I would sew the triangles onto the sides of the diamonds, and then realize that there wasn't a good 1/4 inch seam allowance at the tips. It was either too big or too small. The squares in a square started going together OK, but then when I sewed one to a diamond patch, it cut off some of the points on the square, too. And I ripped again. Making it big made it somewhat easier, but still, I didn't have any secret, inside tips or techniques for matching up the points or making sure that the patches were the right size to fit together as I sewed the block. It would have been nice to get some tips for sewing those patches together, but nobody was there, and there wasn't even a book to help. Let alone get some creative ideas. At that time, the only quilt I could imagine was one with a bunch of blocks using the same color combination. Interesting, but not as fun as it could be.
So, maybe you can imagine my delight when I ran across a brand new quilting resource, A New Light on Storm at Sea Quilts by Wendy Mathson. I was so excited, that I made it Penny's Inner Circle Book of the Month. That means that all Penny's Inner Circle members of www.TheQuiltingCoach.com got this fabulous resource automatically as a benefit of membership. Wendy Mathson has been around the quilting world for several years and loves to teach quilters easier ways to make quilts. And she shares her techniques for the Storm at Sea block and quilts in this new treasure. Wendy is my kind of quilter. She remembers what it was like to be a beginner, and she makes things as easy as possible and as clear as she can - especially for this block. She includes detailed instructions for sewing each patch, and shows you how to fix the patches that don't come out right - something I have never seen in a book before. In addition, most book writers leave it up to us to figure out how to press the seam allowances for the flattest quilt top. Not Wendy - she includes tips for pressing the seam allowances, because how you press the seam allowances can affect how pointy the tips on your triangles and diamonds are. And, her illustrations include pictures of actual fabric - not those color blobs that leave to your imagination which is the right side of the fabric and which is the wrong side. In this treasure, you'll know right away how to cut the fabric and how to sew the patches together. A New Resource, A New Journey This brand new resource is barely in quilt shops. As a matter of fact, maybe your quilt shop got it in and sold it out the moment it arrived, because this is certain to become the premier resource for trouble-free stitching the Storm at Sea block and creating beautiful heirloom quilts. You can reserve your copy right now and probably still have it before any of your quilting buddies get theirs. In A New Light on Storm at Sea Quilts by Wendy Matheson you will see exactly how to:
If you want to make a beautiful and unusual quilt using a block that other quilters shy away from, this could be the perfect resource. Many quilters will never even try a quilt using this block because they think it will be too hard. Others have tried and given up. I know a quilter who cut out all of the patches, sewed one block together, and then boxed up the patches and put it on the back shelf in her closet. Using the tips and techniques in A New Light on Storm at Sea Quilts by Wendy Mathson making a quilt using this block will be fun and painless. And a glance through the gallery in the book will give you hundreds of ideas for beautiful quilts to make. In addition, Wendy includes grids you can use to color in your own design. Who would have guessed how different this block could look just by a different arrangement of the colors in the patches. Below are two examples of quilts made with the Storm at Sea block. On the left is a fairly traditional quilt, and on the right is the same block made to look completely different. Included in A New Light on Storm at Sea Quilts are tons of ideas for different ways to make this block into a quilt. From a flower garden to a fish pond to Christmas ornaments, it's all there - stirring your imagination or to use to make your own quilt.
Same Block - Completely Different Look
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