After seeing a picture on Pinterest of a quilt block that
looked like a bunch of Polaroid pictures scattered across the floor, I thought
this would be a super cute way to showcase fabrics that I love. It also would
mean fussy-cutting and a lot of waste, something I don’t love. However, I
decided to grab a stack and start cutting. I would have clicked on the picture
on Pinterest, which probably would have led me to a tutorial or something, but
instead decided to wing it. Sometimes the less information I have the more
informed my decisions are… when it comes to quilting that is!
For the Polaroids themselves, I decided to fussy-cut a three
by three inch image with one by three inch strips of white on either side, a
one by four-and-a-half inch white strip on top and a one-and-a-half inch by
four-and-a-half inch white strip on the bottom. This creates a four by
four-and-a-half inch Polaroid. I then gathered various shades of grey and
started cutting out strips to create the outer edges. At first I was cutting them
out on angles and sewing them together to create the wonkiness and scattered
look, but then I figured that if I simply cut rectangles and chose my direction
afterwards it was less of a headache. I highly suggest the latter approach if
you plan to make these yourself. To further the scattered look, I threw in a
blank grey square and plan to have anywhere from one to three of these in
future blocks.
I highly suggest that if you love this block as much as I
do, you visit the blog Stitched in Color (http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2012/04/polaroids-on-cloudy-day.html)
and read about her approach.
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