Baby Potato Chip

Every once in a while, you find a block that is easy and beautiful. Where did it come from? Is it an old block that just came to light? My new favorite block was found on Laura Kate’s blog Daily Fiber. Tracing it back, it was on Quilting Gail’s blog. Quilting Gail said that Barbara G. Harper was the designer. All three sites are worth a look. There is no name for the block that I could see so I named it the Baby Potato Chip block. That block came from Lea Louise. The Baby Potato Chip is one round of the Potato Chip Block with modifications. Inspiration comes from others that are far away and yet are a sisterhood of quilters.

I wanted to make a purple quilt. The Baby Potato Chip would be perfect. It could be made in eight units. I gathered eight different fabrics. six are purple and the other two are blue. There are 64 blocks, so each fabric was used for the center eight times. The second color was different than the center.

This is the Baby Potato Chip block. The center is 4 1/2″ by 4 1/2″. The surrounding rows are 2 1/2″ wide.

The purples, blues and black are dark so it needed a very light fabric for the sashing. I chose a white on white. Each block had a different orientation. They were sewn together in units of four with the colored pieces of the block toward the center.

The units of four were sewn together in units of four which made 1/4 of the quilt.

A 4 1/2″ black border was added to finish the quilt. It is 90″ by 90″ A very big quilt but could be made smaller by eliminating a row of four horizontally and vertically.

There is another version of a quilt made with this block in the above blogs. It is on the diagonal. At some time, I will make it. This block is so easy and fun to make. I’m sure that I’ll have another new favorite block in the future.

There are decisions to be made. Should I make another Baby Potato Chip block quilt. Should I quilt one of the community quilts. Should I finish a ufo top. I did organize the mile a minute basket the other night. There’s lots of ideas in there. This is where I need to make a list and see which one comes to the top.

Have a great day and happy quilting.