Thursday, July 23, 2026, 10:00am – 11:00am, Marion Public Library, Meeting Room B, 600 S Washington St, Marion IN.
Judy Martin’s PowerPoint presents more than 100 images of her original quilts that illustrate creative ways of arranging quilt blocks. Many of the examples create secondary patterns where blocks meet, obscuring the rows used for construction. The quilts shown include strippy quilts and medallion quilts, as well as ones with straight or diagonal rows of blocks, with our without sashes or alternate plain squares. Some have pieced sashing or pieced alternate blocks. With the exception of the medallion quilts, all are sewn in rows, though few of these look like rows of blocks. Many of Judy’s sets make the blocks appear to float on the background. Numerous quilts combine small and large blocks. Several quilts combine two to as many as five block types, sizes, or colorings. She sometimes pieces the backgrounds of her star quilts. The presentation includes a number of her Log Cabin variations as well as stars and other non-Log Cabin quilts that have Log-Cabin-like setting possibilities. For some of these, Judy presents drawings showing multiple arrangements of the same blocks and bits so you can see how much of a difference the set can make.
