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It's so exciting to finally get the Childhood games started!! I went with the game that more people suggested than any other, Hide and Seek! I am excited to use this fabric where the animals seem like they are playing hide and seek in the forest.
The light for the block is the lightest green in my bundle.
Was it one of your favorite games as a kid? Do your kids or grand kids play it? Any fun variations? tell me in the comments below!
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just deleted one of them Brenda
do another one and change your fabrics to be more similar to mine
I’m using my 1930’s fat quarter bundle that I’ve been saving. I just picked 3 fabrics that I liked and then chose the fabric that I thought was the cutest to showcase by using it for the 4 large squares. I’m thinking that I should have paid more attention to the instructions of choosing the light, medium and dark fabrics for certain parts of the block. I would have liked it better if my square units looked like they were floating the way yours look, Pat. I see lots of others that have the same look as mine, the squares look recessed and the other pieces kind of form a diagonal “8” and the squares look like one big square in the back. It’s ok. I would just like to learn how you can pick colors that will seem to float or pop out and how to pick colors that you want to recede to the background. I would love it if you would talk about that on one of your chats, Pat. ❤️ thanks!
I love this!
I don’t know what I did wrong, but I posted a picture of my block twice. It’s showing up on the list of pictures as #8 and #26. I don’t know anything about “ Inlinkz”, but it looks like signing up for Inlinkz is the only way to post a picture, so that’s what I did. Am I doing it the hard way? Thanks for your help, Pat.
We always played hide and seek after dinner with the neighborhood kids until the parents started calling for us and that is my favorite memory, when the mothers would start calling us home. This has started a conversation between me, my sisters and brothers about favorite game memories. One brother remembered when we used to play this game with the dog. One would hide and the rest would tell the dog to find the missing one, he always knew who to look for and ran around the house sniffing till he found them. The only time he had trouble with this was when they would hide on a bed under covers, he just couldn’t figure that one out.
I lived on a dairy farm growing up. We played Hide n’ Seek outside in the corn fields, barns and trees that surrounded our home! In the winter we played in the barn! Lots of fun places to hide! I’m going with a farm theme for that reason I need to find some more farm fabrics! But, it’s a process so I’ll wait till each block comes out to decide if the fabric I have in my stash will work or if I’ll need to take a trip to the fabric store! Or darn! LOL
I made 2 quilts with this pattern.one I did a flower in the center and just a couple of months I did teddy bears in the center I used a jelly roll and cut enough for both quilts at the same time.
Another favorite outdoor game was Tag. Sooooo many versions to choose from!
My friends & I grew up across the street from the school yard. We played Hide & Seek around the school grounds, but it was most fun after dark. I remember the school steps being Home.
The Girl Scouts I work with play a version in the woods now called ‘Camouflage’.
We played this version as well. It was funny seeing people try to fit in tight spaces, like a clown car!
We used to play a version called “No Witches Are Out Tonight” of course we could only play it when it was close to dark out! We used the street lights to come in at the end of the night, but we had a captains bell on the front porch and we always had to be in ear shot of the bell in case Mom needed us home for something.
I’ve played all the games mentioned as a child. One I can remember was “Olly, Olly, Auction Free Free Free”. It involved kids on the front side and kids on the back side of the house. One group threw a ball over the top of the house and yelled the Olly Olly Auction Free Free Free phrase then ran to the other side to retrieve the ball before the others did. Anyone else? It’s been 70 (gasp) years, so I might have the sequence or phrase wrong. We used to love playing out in the neighborhood at night. When I had a family, my kids knew it was time to come in when the street lights came on.
that is so fun!
Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen or made a block like this. It looks great! I loved Hide and Seek when I was a kid and my kids love it now. We play it around the house at least once a week. It’s so easy-no board, supplies, equipment needed!
At night when we played Hide and Seek, we called it “Ghost Comes Out at Midnight”!!!
A timeless, classic game. Love playing with my 2 year old grandson, as he thinks hiding under a blanket or behind my chair he can’t be “found” as he giggles and jumps all over. Special times for sure.
My youngest daughter said she and her girlfriends would play hide and seek at a sleepover. They would play it in the dark in the house. She hid in the bathtub but it was dark enough they didn’t see her.
We loved hide and seek and so did our children, and now grandchildren! We used to play a version called Sardines. One person would hide and everyone else had to find them. When someone found them, they wouldn’t tell anyone, just join the hider, until all but one were squashed together like a can of sardines in the hiding place. The last player was the loser! 😀
Very nice block!!! Tfs!
Yes we played hide and seek with all the neighbors. Even remember playing a version of one hider. I love watching our grandkids play their version of hide a seek in the house….okay I play too. Great start to this quilt, I plan to make a story book to go along with my quilt.
Never mind…I just found the answer to my question.
It looks like this block was made using just the fat quarters and not the background fabric, is that right? I just want to make sure I am putting it together correctly.
I don’t think there really is a ‘background’. The ‘white’ fabric is shown as only 8 small squares.
that is so fun!!
have fun Anita!
i love this!! Smart parents
no Marcia it is the very light green. I did say that in the article
Hide and seek was played a lot in my neighborhood. We often played it the way Tricia P. describe in her post. Fun memories! Now it’s one of my grandkids’ favorite games to play with us. They are 2, 4, and 5 years old. I LOVE it when they all get under the covers on my bed. They think I’m not going to see that giggling, wiggling hump sticking up! Lol!
Is the light in this block the background fabric?
What a funny memory! Thanks for sharing!
Need to go see what I want to use as a theme on this one, still working on other projects of Pat’s, fun fun fun
When we were kids we would get together with all the neighborhood kids and play “Big Fat Gorilla” it was the opposite of Hide and Seek – one person would hide and the others would go out in groups to find the “Gorilla” when the person was spotted, you yelled BIG FAT GORILLA and everyone tried to beat the Gorilla back to base. Originally we called it “bloody murderer” but our parents put a quick stop to us yelling that up and down the street at night. LOL
What a great block to start this new sewing adventure. Thank you so much for creating this for us!
Such a great way to use some feature fabrics. The colors are beautiful in this one.