Appleton Dance

Here is my second Mini-toot video tutorial. I made it to demonstrate the first block on Moda's new FaceBook site,   "Moda Blockheads -- Public Group" .  The block is "Block 1: Whirligig - Kansas Troubles Quilters, Lynne Hagmeier, Designer" .  A PDF file with complete directions can be downloaded from the Internet by clicking on this link . This design is not optimum for a mini-tutorial, but since I wanted to make the block, I thought I might as well take the photos and use the free Adobe Spark application to make another video. I think my first mini-toot, "Cross Block" , is really cute; and I am learning more about the video process as I go along. I made the "Cross Block" mini-toot because it showed an improvisational block, and I wanted to make this "Whirligig" mini-toot because it uses a "layered" patchwork technique that I wanted to investigate.  In this "layered" patchwork method of making the Whir...

Modern, improv "Cross" block mini-toot by Linda Theil, created with Adobe Spark The Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild recently announced that the entire guild is invited to make blocks for a quilt that will be awarded to a guild volunteer this year. They chose the "Cross" block because it is fast, easy, and beautiful; but also because it is a great example of a modern, improvisational block. When I saw Kathy Schmidt's post, "Modern AND improv -- Great!" on the GAAQG blog, wanted to try it right away. So I looked up all the links Kathy provided in her post -- there are a lot of tutorials out there about how to make this block.  I thought wouldn't it be cool to to have one of those cute, short, video tutorials on how to make this block -- so I thought I'd try the Adobe Spark video option using photos I took while putting together my red and gold sample block.  I could save and download the video I made, and could even get code ...