Update at 11 February 2017
To be clear, this isn't my tute. I'm including it in my list of tutes as so many people have shared it as such via Pinterest so I'm taking this opportunity to be really clear that the original pattern is by McCall's Quilting and the direct link to it is here.
Update at 1 June 2018
I've had several requests for details of the fabrics used for this block. I'm afraid, it's not good news.
The cream background fabric was provided by the Queen Bee who asked me to make the block, I've spoken with her and, unfortunately, she doesn't know what it is.
The red fabrics are fat quarters I bought in a fabric store in Cirencester, England approximately 10 years ago. They don't have selvedge edges so they're also an unknown.
Update at 20 Aug 2018
Thanks to Quilty Constance, who left comment #27 notifying me that my original link to the pattern on the McCall's website was no longer available. It has changed to a new link on The Quilting Company website and I've updated my direct link above to reflect this. It looks like this change may have happened late last year so my apols to those who've visited this post in the last 8/9 months, only to suffer disappointment - I hope you each successfully navigated your way around The Quilting Company's website and found the pattern.
Celtic Twist Block
February Queen Bee Kim passed me the fabric for her Celtic Twist block at our last NYC Metro Mod Guild meeting back on 2 February (oh and while I'm mentioning our last guild meeting there's a great post on our blog detailing our Show and Tell, be sure to pop over and take a look). This is the latest I've ever been getting around to sewing my block, but at least it's still February, just!
Kim pointed us to the instructions on our Guild blog here and gave us a cream print fabric to use for the block background. She asked us to use fabrics from our stash to add the 4 coloured twists to the block and also that all 4 fabrics used should be the same colour but different solids/prints
Background fabric with 4 red fabrics that I chose from my stash.
I'd noted from the blog posts of other Bees in our Hive who'd already made the block that this one's a bit of a brain twister. I found the instructions a bit tricky, purely in that they direct you by using 4 shades of green and, once you move on to the instruction diagrams the 2 darker shades start to look quite similar as do the 2 lighter shades. I scribbled my own colours next to their key chart and this worked well for me.
I laid all the pieces out in the finished design before I sewed anything together and at that stage, I realised that the 2 floral prints would be next to each other so I swapped 2 fabrics around to make the block more balanced - you can see my change in my colour key chart above.
Background fabric with 4 red fabrics that I chose from my stash.
I'd noted from the blog posts of other Bees in our Hive who'd already made the block that this one's a bit of a brain twister. I found the instructions a bit tricky, purely in that they direct you by using 4 shades of green and, once you move on to the instruction diagrams the 2 darker shades start to look quite similar as do the 2 lighter shades. I scribbled my own colours next to their key chart and this worked well for me.
I laid all the pieces out in the finished design before I sewed anything together and at that stage, I realised that the 2 floral prints would be next to each other so I swapped 2 fabrics around to make the block more balanced - you can see my change in my colour key chart above.
The finished block.
I think it could look really great pieced together on point too.
I wonder what it'll look like with all the other colours around it as I've already seen that some of the Bees have completed it in Candy Pink/Bright Pink/Purple/Orange/Blue/Aqua. You can get some idea by checking out my Celtic Twist Pinterest Board as I've lined all the blocks made so far on there (thanks Gertie for leaving a comment that planted that seed! ;) ).
Another quilt that I'm looking forward to seeing completed :)
Updated on Saturday, 7 March 2015
A pic of Queen Bee Kim with the finished quilt:
Celtic Twist Block
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