I have gotten so many requests on how I did this block, that I decided to repost and try to explain.

The best I can tell you is to look on youtube for 10 minute block. I made this one unique, because my 4 outer [purple] blocks were all the same color. On all the tuts that I have watched, they are usually 2 different colors, positioned in opposite corners, with a third color in the center for contrast. So then using the 10 minute block method, I used the white fabric to come up with the window in the middle.

The trick after that, is before you roll the edges of the white over, you lay a piece of colored fabric over the white, roll the edges, and secure them down. I did that with a decorative stitch on my machine. My 'Uncle Art' [arthritis] tells me not to go there with hand stitching.

If you are interested in the size, my purple blocks and the colored inserts were 4 3/4 square and the white block was 8 square. This resulted in a finished square around 9 square. I played with the size, because I didn't want the bigger block that you are shown on the youtube clips.

Hope that you can understand my note. If not, PM me and I will try to explain better.

Thanks to all for the wonderful comments. Now to hope that the granddaughter will like it as well.

I love this quilt and the tut sounds pretty straight forward. Thanks for sharing.

thanks - bookmarked :thumbup:

thanks for the tutorial..and the quilt is beautiful!

Thanks for the explanation. I bookmarked to try later. :-)

Wow love the quilt...yum yum batiks....Your explaination tut is perfect....great job.... :thumbup:

It's Beautiful!!! Purple IS my fav color, so my heart jumped when I saw this one!!! I LOVE it!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Thanks so much for the tute:-)

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Thanks, will check that out.