Corn off the Cob Quilt Block – November Block of the Month

This Corn off the Cob quilt block is part of a challenge to make a 12″ block using the colors in a color card with the theme of Food. I decided to show a block named after a traditional Thanksgiving food.

Corn off the Cob Quilt

This was the Super Sunday mystery quilt of 2013. It’s a very easy block, with a lot of great variations! It makes a fast and easy baby quilt or a quick charity quilt. Use up your scraps!

A graphic example without sashing

Pat made this as a charity quilt

Melissa used scraps for her border

Melanie stair-stepped her design

This is mine. It became a charity quilt.

Karen set hers on point

Here is the basic Corn off the Cob Quilt Block

You can see that this would make a great stash buster or scrappy quilt. For reference, you can get about (4) 4-1/2″ x 12-1/2″ rectangles and (8) 2-1/2″ x 4-1/2″ rectangles from one fat quarter. (More if you have big fat quarters.) So, for the sake of argument, you can get (2) blocks from each FQ with some smaller rectangles left over. Of course, you can’t put the same color on the top and the bottom of the block so you will need at least (2) FQs to make (4) blocks.

Let’s play with some ideas. But first…

Things you will find helpful:

• A strip cut ruler
• A 12-1/2″ square ruler
• Best Press or other spray starch
• A walking foot

Here is a quilt with straight-set blocks

Here is the same quilt with blocks in sashing

Here is the block set on point in a quilt

Assuming a 12″ block, your side setting triangles would need to be made from an 18-1/4″ block cut on both diagonals. The corner setting triangles would need to be made from a 9-3/8″ square cut on the diagonal. Here is more information on setting a quilt on point.

Here is the Corn off the Cob quilt block used as the center of a Square-in-a-Square block.

Here is more information on How to Make a Square-in-a-Square block.

Which one did you like the best?

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