Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) 2025 Round 4

Wendy of Pieceful Thoughts gave us the prompt for this week which is a "Sliced Square with Insert, for lack of a better name". The interpretation for this block is whatever you want to do. I had always wanted to try and make a block where you slice into it wherever you want to and add a strip of fabric. Some quilts with this method are called, Pick Up Sticks (or Stix), Sticks and Stones or other names.

For my blocks, I added 2-3 slices of 1-inch wide cut fabric inserts to each of the 14 blocks that I made. You can use any width of strips you want to add or even a mixture of various widths too. On some blocks I stitched scraps together to create a scrappy insert. The first slice was easy to do. The slices that cut across the first slice was a bit tricker to align the strip so it didn't look wonky. I did pretty well with it and only had to rip out 2 to redo because they were a bit too wonky. While these are not perfect, they look good overall and you really have to look closely to see a few lines that are just sightly off. I am glad I finally tried this method and the blocks do give a fun and playful feel to the quilt. I wouldn't do an entire quilt like this, but using them as an inner or outer border or along with another block is a fun option for certain quilts. I think it might be easier to just appliqué the strips in place or use ribbon instead of fabric strips, which is an idea for achieving a similar look like this again in something else.

Closeup of a few of the sliced blocks I made.

So far I am loving how this quilt top is evolving.

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Two more rounds left until this quilt top is done. Curious what the next 2 prompts will be? Me too!

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