Hawberry Quilter December 2013 | Page 10

Block Central (.www.blockcentral.com) This website was recently featured on the Facebook page for the CQA (.www.facebook.com/ canadianquiltersassociation) and we think that we can guarantee that you’ll find something valuable on this site! There are two menu bars to choose from: the top one lists: quilt directory, block of the month, quilt blocks, quilt projects, coloring pages, blog, forum and advertise. The lower one lists: newsletter, swaps, articles, calculators, quilt tips, and a couple of info items. Just the calculator alone would make this worthwhile to link with once in a while, so that you don’t have to take the time to figure out; i.e. on the squares calculator, you type in what size your unfinished square will be and what the width of your fabric is and how many squares you need and it will calculate how many strips you need to cut (I know, it’s not hard to do on paper, but this is faster than my method - I draw myself a diagram!). WARNING! Don’t click on the letters on the left side to browse quilt blocks! You get into all