Test incorporating multiple strategy. have you ever attempted embroidery in your cover blocks so as to add circulate? have you ever drawn your individual undulating paper-pieced ducks? have you ever checked out shapes in your print materials and spotted how the layout can create circulate in line with the way it is put on your duvet? encouraged Spokes, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, 2011, 12˝ × 12˝ are you able to calm anything that's very busy by way of including a brightest or darkest worth? Does your unique block radiate? how will you upload to that by way of your offerings of colour? test gradating your colour palette. try out stripes or slashing. Pay shut consciousness to the way you lay out your items in the event you make textile— do you slant them or overlap them? attempt including anything that breaks a border to maneuver your eye from one aspect of the duvet to the opposite. loopy Dresden, Brenda Suderman, 2011, 12˝ × 12˝ Homeward certain, Chris Hudson, 2011, 12˝ × 12˝ eleven demanding situations to Get You Going eighty five Coming and Going, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, quilted via Linda Sekerak, 2011, 51˝ × 63˝ i began this cover proceeding for it to be completely Flying ducks. even as, I had made a mini cover for one more problem. I had them at the wall subsequent to one another. … And, good, the remainder is heritage! 86 quarter-hour of Play—Improvisational Quilts Medallion Quilts problem #10 Make a medallion duvet from a suite of formerly made blocks that by no means grew right into a duvet. have you made a small duvet and stopped engaged on it since it simply felt love it had to be higher, yet you didn’t understand what it wanted subsequent? have you made a few blocks after which made up our minds the colour palette used to be flawed, so that you solid them apart? How approximately pulling them again out to make a medallion duvet? occasionally I placed items away for some time and are available again to them later. Don’t get down approximately being caught. simply placed it away and look ahead to a brand new day—and new eyes—to spark notion in your subsequent murals. 15 Minutes to Play and consider What orphan blocks do you have got so you might make right into a medallion? are you able to combine previous blocks with new blocks to make a medallion? are you able to mix parts from or 3 different quilts to make one? have you ever began a cover and misplaced curiosity? How can that duvet be the beginning of anything new and terrific? Can previous blocks or an deserted undertaking develop into an ideal border? actual North, Victoria Findlay Wolfe with 15 Minute Scrap Bee block participants: LeeAnn Decker, Glenda Parks, Sujata Shaw, Margaret Cibulsky, Shelly Pagliai, Charlotte Pountney, Mary Ramsey Keasler, Helen Beall, Brenda Suderman, Lynn O’Brien, and Beth Shibley; quilted by way of Shannon Baker, 2010, 73˝ × 75˝ This duvet begun as diversified quilts. the entire blocks sat on my layout wall, part via part, for weeks. After leaving them for it slow and simply them from time to time, i started to gain that it's going to be one quilt—and a brand new sequence of play all started. I requested myself: What if I included the blocks into the cover? What If I made the celebs right into a medallion? What if I set them on element? What if I further the slashed pieced blocks round the border?