What is this block called

[Deegles]

Re: What is this block called

The quilt originally posted by Deegles looks to me to be a bit different from Hearts & Gizzards. That one looks like curved pieces. This quilt acts lushly looks to me to be straight lines (yippie!!).
Why couldn't this be done by cutting the ends off a HST and swapping them for another center in contrasting color?
I hope that makes sense....

After studying this for quite sometime, I believe it is the drunkards path block on two corners using solids and prints.

As soon as I free up my time and get three more projects done, I think I am going to tackle this. I did sketch out this pattern on graph paper. Will a circle still be a circle after it ends up with eight seams? I think so, but I will have to work out this science in the quilting Lab!

[mischiefkat]

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Did some more research on this block. Like Quentin The Quilt said this block is Hearts and Gizzards....aka Dutch WindMill. For those who save magazines the pattern is in the August 1994 copy of American Patchwork and Quilting. Kathy

[CraftySweetPeas]

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After studying this for quite sometime, I believe it is the drunkards path block on two corners using solids and prints.

As soon as I free up my time and get three more projects done, I think I am going to tackle this. I did sketch out this pattern on graph paper. Will a circle still be a circle after it ends up with eight seams? I think so, but I will have to work out this science in the quilting Lab!

Maybe that is how it is done! The blocks on the original picture you posted seems to be straight seams - I think we WANT to see circles, but there are just enough sides that we "do" see them as circles. The pictures in the links posted seem to be started with curved seams.

I think you might be right about the Drunkard's Path. And then will you just slice each 1/4 in half to get the two end pieces? Or can you start with a smaller "corner" section and put two of those pieces together to get the look of the "triangles" on both ends? (Thinking out loud - trying to type as fast as I'm thinking....I hope it makes sense!)

[Monique]

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Here is the pattern for the Hearts and Gizzard block:

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/quilt-patterns/quilt-blocks/hearts-and-gizzard

[true4uca]

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I'm sure I saw a Kay Woods video ( a few years ago) on how to do a Hearts & Gizzard block. Of course I can't find it now.

[Preeti]

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Forgive my nit-pickiness here. The hearts & Gizzards block forms a flower in the center with petal like shapes.
But the picture provided by Deegles shows a smooth circle in the center. I think I can figure out how to make this block...
1. Take two 10" squares (one color, one background) and place them one on top of another, right sides up
2. Mark 3" from all corners and trace a quarter circle arc on two opposite corners.
3. Keep the two squares together and cut out the corner quarter circles for both squares
4. Swap, so the color arcs are with the background square and vice-versa.
5. Sew the two arcs to the main body of the square for both color and background square.
4. Make HSTs with the above squares.

[mischiefkat]

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I found this on the net. It is called Turkey Giblets. Looks very much like the block in the Mystery Quilt. What do you think? Kathy

http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TurkeyGibletsBlock.html

[Hulamoon]

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I found this on the net. It is called Turkey Giblets. Looks very much like the block in the Mystery Quilt. What do you think? Kathy

http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TurkeyGibletsBlock.html

I think it's a lot closer!

[Deegles]

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I found this on the net. It is called Turkey Giblets. Looks very much like the block in the Mystery Quilt. What do you think? Kathy

http://www.quilterscache.com/T/TurkeyGibletsBlock.html

That looks close. I found the snowball 2 block on quilterscache and it is almost as well. I liked pretti's idea. Thank you pretti!