Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday.

I had many ideas for today’s post and then I tossed each one aside saying nope not today. I wanted to do a block but just wasn’t sure which block to highlight in today’s post. Something easy was my criteria and so I started browsing through the EQ block library where there are literally 100’s of blocks to choose from.

I kept looking and looking – didn’t want anything with half square triangles as I am kind of tired of them and thought I just want something simple. Finally near the end of the block list I found this one called Up and Down – a very quick and easy block to put together.

Next came the fabric selection and as a lot of you know I have a bit of fabric to choose from. I pulled out several pieces and just wasn’t 100% happy with what I had on the table. Then I looked down at the bottom shelf in the one cupboard and remembered this really cool fabric from Moda that I had bought at Thimbles & Things way back in January. Perfect I said to the Soda this will be perfect.

The fabric line is called Simple Marks by Malka Dubrawsky for Moda and has 6 prints and one solid. Kind of modern looking but also kind of ancient looking – a mix of both. Perfect for this block and the effect that I want.

The block size is nine inches that I have decided to use and probably should have gone with a 12 inch for what I want to do but oh well the pieces are cut and sewn.

The Block

This block can be made with a variety of fabrics or with just 2 fabrics – one for the sashing and one for the feature fabric.

Cut For One 9″ Block

• Blue solid – ONE (1) 2″ x WOF strip sub cut into: TWO (2) 2″ x 3 ½″ rectangles and TWO (2) 2″ x 9 ½″ rectangles

• Print – TWO (2) 3 ½″ x 8″ rectangles

Fabrics cut and ready to be sewn together

Sewing The Block Together

Fabrics placed in position in the block

1. Sew a 3 ½″ blue rectangle to the top of one and the bottom of the other 3 ½″ x 8″ rectangle. Press the seam towards the blue rectangle.

Sew the small blue rectangle to the feature fabric rectangle

2. Sew a 9 ½″ blue rectangle to the right hand side of each of the units made in step 1. Press the seam towards the blue rectangle.

Sew the long blue rectangle to the side of the unit just made

3. Sew the units made in step 2 together. Press the seam towards the blue rectangle. Block measures 9 ½″ unfinished.

Sew the two units together made in previous step to create the block

So I made 3 blocks and here they are – 2 prints per block – love the look so far. Now back to the sewing machine to make more. The 3 blocks together measure 27 ½″ x 9 ½″.

Three blocks made with 6 prints, 2 per block

So simple and easy – definitely a quilt that can be made in a day and I don’t say that about many quilts. Depending on the size a good stash blaster as well – hoping to use up 8 metres of fabric with this one – woohoo!

Happy Quilting!