Colour Mix Quilt with Frieda!

Colour Mix Quilt with Frieda

Making this quilt was a wonderful experience. Many thanks to my friend Frieda Oxenham who organized the project. In 2020, Frieda announced she was going to participate in  #the100dayproject -starting on April 7. She wrote, “I'm going for making 100 blocks for this 100 day project. I will make one 4.5” x 4.5” block every day, which should not take more than 15 minutes from the cutting to the sewing. The only shapes I will use are squares and rectangles. The blocks are super simple and I would love it if you followed along using your own choice of fabrics. This design I’m using will work with any fabric, patterned or solid. Or mix them up! I'm calling my project isolation quilt (made during the pandemic) and you can follow that hashtag on Instagram to see all my quilt blocks.”

A blog post with additional information is HERE. Find more quilts linked at the bottom of the page.

I jumped at the chance to join Frieda! I’d recently completed my first quilt made of patchwork squares of my son’s recycled button-down shirts. That first quilt was quite a learning curve, but when it was done I wanted to make another quilt. Frieda’s quilt project was perfect. It didn’t take long to finish a block each day and I learned new quilt making skills.

All of the individual blocks are shared in this album: Colour Mix Quilt Blocks. A sample of them are below.

An album sharing ALL 100 of the individual quilt blocks is here: Colour Mix Quilt Blocks — The 100 Day Project.

This project ran from April to July of 2020, using Frieda Oxenham’s quilt block designs. It gave us purpose and enjoyment during lock-down/shelter-at-home (covid pandemic). Having one quilt block a day to complete gave me needed structure while staying home. Learning how to make a pieced block was easy following Frieda’s daily instructions & examples. The first quilt I made for my son used large 8” squares, so this project with 4.5” squares was a natural progression. The finished size is roughly 48” x 50”. It’s on our living room couch & we use it daily!

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