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Old 02-21-2014, 12:14 PM
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I have been in a block exchange over the past year, and have only 1 block left to acquire. So now I need to think about how I am going to put this together. The problem is, 1 block is 18 inches square. I have been putting them up on my wall, to see how they are going to look together, which I am not really pleased with. So, I tried putting them up on point and don't ask me why, but I like that visual. But the problem is that the triangles that would be at the edges are VERY big, and I am wondering how to inset a smaller block in that triangle. I hope you understand what I am asking. Any help that anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any and all suggestions.
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Old 02-21-2014, 12:25 PM
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Could you make a square that would fit inside the triangle? Two of the square's sides would be the triangles sides. [ATTACH=CONFIG]463668[/ATTACH]
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Old 02-21-2014, 01:14 PM
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I like Tesspug's idea.
You might play with different ways of piecing fabric to fill the spots.
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Old 02-21-2014, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by tesspug View Post
Could you make a square that would fit inside the triangle? Two of the square's sides would be the triangles sides. [ATTACH=CONFIG]463668[/ATTACH]
Thanks for the visual, that gives me something to work with, and I think I can make it work. I will do one in scrappy before cutting into the "good" fabric. I knew I could depend on someone out there to help me out. Thanks again.
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Old 02-21-2014, 09:38 PM
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Here's another graphic to help.
Make the triangles from squares large enough to allow their connecting edges to overlap, as shown on the graph with dashed lines.

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