Welcome to the Turnabout Patchwork Blog Hop! Turnabout Patchwork provides 23 quilt patterns and the knowledge necessary to create your own designs with the techniques presented. According to the author of Turnabout Patchwork, Teresa Mairal Barreu, "Turnabout Patchwork is all about playing with blocks—making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block ... to yield numerous patchwork designs. It’s a technique that allows you to expand your design capability yet doesn’t require you to master a library of block patterns..." Because I have a really fun Little Red Riding Hood backing and a couple of coordinating prints in my stash that I wanted to turn into a quick baby quilt with an interesting pattern design, I chose the Coordinated Strips Block. The Coordinated Strips Block is a great choice for using 2 1/2" strips. Let's face it, if you're like me, there's quite a few jellyrolls that have joined your sewing room. I discovered very quickly that even edges are very critical in this block, or things will not line up neatly in the following steps. Therefore, I recommend that if you will be making multiple blocks, cut full width of fabric strips (instead of 8" ones), sew them into strip sets, and then crosscut into 8" sections that have perfectly even edges. You may be giving me some eye roll given the photo below, but do as I say, people, not as I do. After some diagonal slicing, I was ready for some repositioning and sewing. This led to a new arrangement. Next I assembled a Four-Patch from the units attained in the previous step. While I've started off with just one block, each block in the book has a quilt pattern and two or more variations. Be sure to check out the other blog hop stops involved: January 30 - Quarter Snow Ball Arrowhead Jen Shaffer blog: Patterns by Jen Lorinda Davis blog: Laurel, Poppy and Pine Sweet Bows Kate Colleran blog: Seams like a dream Sandra Healy blog: Sandra Healy Designs Tutti-frutti Moira de Carvalho blog: Quilt Design Duo Lynn Kane blog: Puppy Girl Designs Sun Dunes Sarah Goer blog: Sarah Goer Quilts Tammy Silvers blog: Tamarinis February 1 - Modern Shoofly Flying Rainbows Gretchen Wylegala blog: Snug Harbor Quilts Flying Butterflies Anorina Morris blog: Samelia’s mum Raewyn Barge blog: Stitching Farmgirl Flying Flags Tammy Silvers blog: Tamarinis Becca Fenstermaker blog: Pretty Piney Flying Confetti Laura Piland blog: Slice of π Quilts Sarah Ruiz blog: Saroy February 2 - Half Square Triangles (HSTs) and squares Rose Garden Star Anne Boundy blog: Said with Love Swirl Joanne Harris blog: Quilts by Joanne Sarah Myers blog: The Quilted Diary Houndstooth Becca Fenstermaker blog: Pretty Piney Diamond Star Sarah Vanderburgh blog: Sew Joy Creations Sarah Scott blog: Piccolo Studio February 4 - Striped Fabric Block Shells Gail Sheppard blog: Quilting Gail Julie Burton blog: Running Stitch Quilts Xs and Os Linda McLaren blog: The Quilting Biker Sarah Scott blog: Piccolo Studio Jaws Cheryl Brown blog: QuilterChic Arrowhead Stephanie Jacobson blog: Steph Jacobson Design February 6 - Coordinated Strips Peaks Afton Warrick blog: Quilting Mod Diamond and Crosses Linda McLaren blog: The Quilting Biker Brandy Pettit blog: Pampered Pettit Knots and Crosses Leanne Parsons blog: Devoted Quilter Andy Knowlton blog: A Bright Corner February 8 - Double Disappearing Nine-Patch Holiday Trellis Sherry Shish blog: Powered by Quilting Stepping Stones Bobbi Bridgeman blog: Snowy Days Quilting Anja Clyke blog: anjaquilts Two for One Mania Hatziioannidi blog: Mania for Quilts Cross Sandra Starley blog: Textile Time Travels Anjeanette Klinder blog: Anjeanette Klinder Now's your chance to win an electronic copy of the book and a pattern from Teresa's pattern store. a Rafflecopter giveaway
