GPDU -- MONTH 9 One Vase and One Shoo Fly Block

 We are really making progress on Garden Party Down Under, the 2022 Block of the Month, for The Quilt Show.com. 

It's not too late to start--this pattern is FREE to Star Members of  The Quilt Show. Designed exclusively for The Quilt Show, by designer Irene Blanck, you can join now, get all the patterns throughout this year and work on this quilt as you wish. After December 31, 2022, the pattern will only be available for sale from the designer or shops. Why not get it FREE--along with all the other benefits of Star Membership.

Here is my Month 9 urn block and the final ShooFly Block from my sample quilt made last year:

Here is Irene's Month 9 urn and ShooFly Block:

Using a window template, cut from plain paper, allows you to audition vase/urn fabrics.  Here are two completely different looks:

Remember, there will be a rim of fabric along the top edge of the urn--a dark solid would work well with both of these choices:

By now, most everyone has determined their favorite method for stems, circles, leaves, flowers and the vases. Mine was made with turned edge machine applique, using Print and Piece Fuse Lite for the patterns. This reverses the design--not really much of an  issue with this block. 

If you need to review, all of the videos and blog posts remain available and the Facebook LIVE broadcasts are also online, find them HERE -- on YouTube.

Our monthly Facebook LIVE chat will be Friday September 2, 2022, at noon Central time. Join us if you can LIVE or watch later. If you are with us LIVE, I am happy to answer your questions--or post them here and I will answer as part of the LIVE chat. 

Next month we will make TWO smaller vases, each block will be 14" H x 6" W. We will also start the Diamond Borders. Irene used needle turn hand applique for her diamond borders. I chose to machine piece the diamond borders, cutting each Diamond and background Triangle to accurate size and machine piecing as usual. There will be instructions for both methods.

Let's quilt.

Barbara