To accomodate our continued commitment to safety we will use a modified format-dates and details to follow. The Annual Guild Challenge is NEXT month.After that, Housetops share the technique of joining rectangular strips of cloth so that the end of the strip’s long side connects to one short side of a neighboring strip, eventually forming a kind of frame surrounding the central patch increasingly larger frames or borders are added until a block is declared complete.” Read more about these dynamic quilts and the BOM on the blog or click here for PDF instructions. The Housetop, from the composite block down to its constituent pieces, echoes the right angles of the quilt’s borders, initiating visual exchanges between the work’s edges and what is inside… It begins with a medallion of solid cloth, or one of an endless number of pieced motifs, to anchor the quilt. Its all-around simplicity hosts many experiments in formal reduction and, at the same time, offers a compositional flexibility unchallenged by other multipiece patterns. According to, the Housetop and Bricklayer block refers to any quilt dominated by concentric squares. The “Housetop” style quilt, a style readily found among the Gee’s Bend quilts is the basis of this month’s block.
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