Blocks & layouts

jacob's ladder?, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I was trying to figure out the name of this block - it's not a Jacob's Ladder, is it? I think Jacob's Ladder looks sort of like this but is more complex. Anyway, this seems to be the block in the Victorian Ladies quilt. (Look a couple of entries down.) And then it is sashed with the same kind of block that you would use in a Storm at Sea Quilt - which is what I think of as a Peaky and Spikeblock - and that's what makes the stars. And the ladies themselves are the sashing squares. Does that make sense?

(I don't know if you normally do it differently if you're making a Storm at Sea quilt, but the way I know to make a block like the sashing blocks is to use a tri-recs tool. Which is what I used for the units in my quilt, too, but they are an alternate block rather than a sashing there.)


Aside: Does anybody have EQ6? Is it notably more user-friendly than EQ5? Because I played around with this in EQ5, and I did get as far as making this little block, but I couldn't figure out how to put the block into a layout, and I ended up just getting frustrated. Which is pretty much what happens every time I try to use it.

Fish Scraps

Quilt above made by Rahna Walker Summerlin; from the exhibit "Do You EQ?" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

Fiesta Stars

Fiesta Stars, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Karen Overton. Shown at Lakeview Quilters Guild's Mayfest quilt show.


Great colors.

Polar Prowler

Polar Prowler, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

This quilt made by Patricia Goffette of Washington. From the 2004 International Quilt Festival.

Do You EQ

Quilt above is "Let Your Light Shine" by Linda MacDougall; from the exhibit "Do You EQ?" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.


I showed this picture to somebody who wasn't a quilter, and they liked the quilt but they didn't understand the name of the exhibit. I had to explain that it was an exhibit of quilts designed with a certain type of design software. I forget that not everybody knows these things!