More Blocks from 52 Weeks of Improv Blocks with Cheryl Arkison

Here are some more of my improv block from Cheryl Arkison’s year long Quilters Playcation Adventure Sew Along on Instagram. #qpadventuresewalong

These are all blocks with water themes.

The block above is 31/52. The inspiration for this block was a glacier in a mountain pass. Initially I sewed patterned strips all the way to the top of the block. But when I saw someone else’s block which clearly had a sky over the glacier I realized that made a much better glacier block. So, I took my block apart and added a bit of sky.

Here is Block 35/52. The inspiration Cheryl Arkison had for this block was Ripples on Water.

Block 35/52, Ripples on Water

Block 17/52. The inspiration was a segment of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

Block 17/52, Segment of the Golden Gate Bridge

And finally, here’s a link to a post about one of my favorite blocks, Sailing at Sunset.

So far I’ve shown blocks which are mostly representational. Next time I’ll share some blocks which are pure improv without a specific theme.

Sailing at Sunrise/Sunset

This is block # 34/52 of the Quilters Playcation Adventure SewAlong #qpadventuresewalong being offered on Instagram, Tuesdays at 12 noon EDT by Cheryl Arkison. The theme for the week of August 23rd, 2022 was Sunlight. I decided to make a different block than the sun block Cheryl designed as I already have a sun with rays in my block #11.

I search images online of sunlight on water and sunlight through leaves. This free photo in pxhere.com stopped me in my searching tracks. I had a stack of solids just these colors near my sewing machine.

Image from pxhere.com

I initially just sewed strips of color together to make a block that looked just like the photo. But then decided that it would be a much better block if I added one white sail to the foreground. So I picked out the seam of the bottom blue strip and added the white triangle. Due to the additional seams around the sail, the block got smaller, but the blocks in this improv quilt are all different sizes, so this size of this block doesn’t really matter.

What does matter is that the block changed from a just OK block to a beautiful one! And that’s what matters.

It the perfect block to say Good-bye Summer!