Time To Play Block Builder!

melissa • March 14, 2013 • 3 Comments

 By Scott Hansen

Have you grown weary of your Sudoku brain puzzles? Tired of the same old Crossword riddles? Bored out of your cotton-lovin’ mind with Jumble and Word Search dilemmas? Have we got a game for you! It’s time you tried our Generation Q Block Builder Game! And you can soooo do this!

In every issue we give you a creative quilt-related challenge, Block Builder, to keep those little grey cells in your head churning. We give you a starter block with some lines or shapes already in place, and you use those lines and shapes as a starting point to make up a brand-spanking new quilt block.  Add your own lines and shapes–and a little color–and send it to me at  scott@generationqmagazine.com. Then we pick our top five favorites and print them in the next issue.  So simple!

Our current issue’s starter block is this:

Print up a couple of the starter block pdf’s from here and have at it! Get some friends to play along, too, or have your kids do their thing on a few sheets. (It’ll keep them occupied for a few milliseconds and you get a chance to appear in our next issue…. win-win in our book!) Entries are due to me by March 31.

If you are still puzzled by how to play our quiltoid Block Builder challenge, check out this how-to post on our website.

And check out the winning entries from our last issue’s challenge on pages 12-14 of our latest issue, Spring 2013.  Who knows? We might like your block so much that we want you to build it into a whole Playdate project for an upcoming issue! It has happened already to one lucky winner, and it could happen to you!
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3 Comments

  • Jean • 11 years ago
    COMMENT #1

    How fun! I’m on it! 🙂

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  • quiltzyx/sue • 11 years ago
    COMMENT #2

    Oh boy! I can’t wait to get home & print this one out to get started.

    EVERYone should do this, it’s fun & really gets your creativity going – and it’s EASY too!

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  • Robbin Golden • 11 years ago
    COMMENT #3

    I really enjoyed all the creative prompts you’ve given me. You have a wonderful site and I can’t wait to get your emails. Wonderful!

    Reply

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