Polaroid/ photo blocks with Betsy

Take some of your favorite material and make them into Polaroid photo quilt blocks! You can use white or ivory material as your photo frame, with dark grey or black material to create the shadow, and finishing off with your choice of background color.

Lighter colored background fabrics work better as they enhance the shadow effect.

There will be a couple of different size blocks you can make to create either a stand alone block for a bag or pillow or create slightly smaller blocks to combine.

People can also bring extra center squares (the photo part of the block) to share so we all have more fun options to choose!.

Polaroid block materials:

1 - fussy cut 2.5” center square for your “photo” (finished block = 7.5”)

white or off white material:

2 - 1” x 2.5” strips

1 - 1” x 3.5” strip

1 - 1.5” x 3.5” strip

Background fabric:

2 - 2.5” x 4”

2 - 2.5” x 7.5”

If you would like to make a Polaroid square with a shadow:

1 - fussy cut 4” center square (finished block = 8.5”)

white/off white material

2 - 1” x 4” strips

1 - 1’ x 5” strip

1 - 1.5” x 5” strip

background material:

1 - 1.5” x 1” piece

1 - 1.5” x 5” strip

1 - 1.5” x 7” strips

1 - 2” x 8.5” strip

1 - 2.5” x 1” piece

1 - 2.5” x 7” strip

shadow material (black of gray):

2 - 1” x 4.5” strips

And a couple of extra fussy cut 2.5” or 4” center squares to share!