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Conception

Blocks, Tumbling is a playful take on the traditional Tumbling Block. I've often thought that block name was a misnomer, since Tumbling Blocks so often appear so static, stacked in rigid rows. I wanted to make blocks that actually tumbled. After seeing an unnamed graphic online showing shapes falling from a void, I decided to recreated the idea in quilt form. 

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Creation

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Blocks, Tumbling was designed by hand and on Adobe Illustrator. Blocks were created using English paper piecing techniques as well as needle turn applique.  I used Architextures prints by Carolyn Friedlander for Robert Kaufman Fabrics as well as Kona Cotton Solids. It is filled with Warm & Natural Batting and quilted with Aurifil 50 wt thread.

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