Cheryl Arkison is offering a year of free improv quilting block classes—one a week on Instagram. She named the series, “Quilter’s Playcation Adventure Sew Along”, with the hashtag #qpadventuresewalong.

Each week she demonstrates how to make the block of the week, and shows examples in two different colorways. She’s encouraging us to take the block in our own direction and do whatever feels fun. It’s suppose to be play!

I’m trying to use my scraps and a stack of 10 inch Kona® Snow blocks as well as some other pastel background fabrics. Hopefully the only fabric I’ll need to purchase for this project will be a quilt backing…sometime in 2023!

The second block, the one on the upper right, was inspired by trees. And her blocks do look like tiered evergreens. This block is made the same way as the blocks in her “Scandi Village” which I recently made. Having just made a forest of trees, I wanted to do something that wasn’t a tree. So I turned two of my triangles upside down, creating a balancing act.

In the third block (lower left) Cheryl had the curvy strip running vertically.a When I pulled the geese fabric out of my scrap bag, it just made sense to turn my strip horizontally, creating a path.

The blocks aren’t sewn to a specific size and Cheryl has recommended that we wait til a later date to trim them up. So the blocks are ragged looking on purpose.

To learn more, check out Cheryl’s site and blog, Quilter’s Playcation and follow the instagram tags #quiltersplaycation and #qpadventuresewlong to see what folks around the world are making with her!

I’ll post the blocks I made once a month. These four are the January make!