There is a lot of trimming and not much concern for precision of piecing because once the three pieces are together, you trim the sides (often like a lopsided square) to the wonky shape you want. When creating these little blocks I’m sewing straight lines but they are often lines not at 90 degree angles so the pieces might be smaller at one end than the other which gives you angled lines in your piecing. You can do whatever works for the colors of the quilt. Sometime I might add a 4th strip to a block to make a color transition work better or I just save it for another quilt. ![]() No matter my prep I always find I make blocks that don’t fit well with the color progression, just set those aside. You place them on your design wall and watch the colors meld and expand. I usually start in the middle, in this case, with some yellow and gold 3 piece blocks, then start piecing some yellow with one piece with orange, then 2 orange and 1 yellow…etc. When creating a quilt like this, you need a game plan for the way you want the colors to flow. The second photo is a close up where you can see the “blocks” easier. There are 4 sides but the sides are often not “square” as per the lines on your cutting mat, not 90 degree angles. These three pieces are sewn together randomly into a block which is then cut into an off kilter square. ![]() The first pict ure shown is a very large (for me) art quilt, 40″W x 60″H, composed of about 180-200 smallish (before sewing together roughly 3.5″ x 4.5″) random sized blocks usually with 3 pieces in each block. This blog will focus on the Small Random Shaped, 3 piece blocks. I don’t want you to easily figure out how it went together but instead to see the colors first, not the structure. I want the lines of the piecing to be secondary, almost in the background. I want you to see the ebb and flow as the colors blend into and out of each other. My goal in piecing a mosaic art quilt is to draw your eye to the colors.
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