Many quiltmakers like to make six inch quilt blocks in order to use a greater variety of blocks in a sampler style quilt. Another reason might be to test out the look of a block in a smaller size in order to save on the fabrics (just in case the block looks very different than in your imagination).

Whatever your reason for creating six inch blocks, the pieces are all just smaller versions of larger sized quilt blocks -- such as the most popular size, the 12" quilt block. This is what makes quiltmaking so exciting -- you are the designer and get to choose all the components.

Sunshine

Sample Quilt Layouts

The two sample quilt layouts shown below featuring the Sunshine block both use diagonal settings, with very different results.

The quilt layout featured on the left uses a standard on point block setting, and surrounds each block with sashing strips. The replacement of some of the pieced blocks with blank blocks gives an added pop of colour.

The quilt layout illustrated on the right adds large corner triangles to each block. Careful placement of the colour of these large triangles gives an extra design element to the quilt.

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