Each week a designer will be presenting a 6″ (6 1/2″ unfinished) block on the theme of sewing.

This is my week and I’m happy to share a scrappy patchwork block with you.

I originally came up with this block when finding a way to use up the waste triangles in projects. I took the cuttings, sewed a 1/4 ” seam then trimmed the half square triangles to a consistent size and then arranged them to form an “S”. I had seen the “H” quilt by Kaffe Fassett and thought it would be fun to have an “S” quilt because my first name – and maiden name – both start with S. 

I have a collection of these S blocks from the last 11 years of my quilting life and still haven’t made a quilt with them! LOL! This photo is from my post in April 2012 🙂

For the blog tour I thought about words related to quilting that start with S: 

sew

stitch

seam

scraps

selvage

scissors

and Starlight! My newest quilt pattern 🙂

I realized this simple patchwork block would be a great addition to this tour’s variety of sewing themed blocks.

You don’t have to use waste fabrics; for this project I used leftover background fabrics and colors from the blocks I had already made so my S would match the other blocks.

Earlier in the tour I designed an alternative patchwork block in case there were other quilters looking for more pieced blocks. Also, I pretty much include a churn dash block in everything I make 🙂 This block can also be made using scraps from other tour blocks so it coordinates.

Here is the collection of blocks from the tour that I have made so far! At this point I have enough for a fun sewing themed cushion cover or wall quilt. We’ll see what I decide 🙂

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Last week’s block was from Sara at Our Crafty Life

Week 46 was Andi from True Blue Quilts

Week 45 was Becca from Sugar and Sand Company

The blocks will be free for the duration of the tour – 52 weeks  and is wrapping up soon.  Designers may ask you  to sign up to a newsletter to receive their block. I encourage you to ~visit~ the blogs and check out the designers’ work. While blocks are free, designers do put in time and it’s great to receive feedback 😉

Next week’s designer is Melissa at The Quilting Room with Mel

then it will be Laura at Orange Blossom Quilt Design Company’s turn

followed by Carolyn at Appliqués Quilts and More

then Kathryn from Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio will finish up the tour