We're Gonna Do The Twist And It Goes Like This - My February Bee Block

Update on 11 February 2017
To be clear, this isn't my tute. I included it in my list of tutes because so many people have shared it via Pinterest. I'm clarifying that the original pattern is by McCall's Quilting, and the direct link is here.

Update on 1 June 2018
I've received several requests for details on the fabrics used for this block. Unfortunately, I don't have 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 on 20 August 2018
Thanks to Quilty Constance, who left comment #27, notifying me that my original link to the pattern on 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. This change may have happened late last year. My apologies to those who've visited this post in the previous 8/9 months, only to suffer disappointment. I hope you 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 previous 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 for the block background. She asked us to use fabrics from our stash to add the four coloured twists to the block, and she said all four fabrics used should be the same colour but with different solids/prints.

Background fabric with 4 red fabrics that I chose from my stash.

From the blog posts of other Bees in our Hive who'd already made the block, 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 colours on their key chart, which worked well for me.

I laid all the pieces out in the finished design before I sewed anything together. 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.

It could look great when 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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