Old 10-15-2007, 02:09 AM
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ShellyQ
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Thank you so much for the encouraging comments :D , as far as the building blocks Patt goes, I drew this up myself. I started by playing with the whirligig patt on isometric graph, moving lines around and colouring bits different to see what would happen. I have posted a diagramme on the second page of this thread.

I have recently seen examples of this quilt on the web, It seems to be most often called Honeycomb Waffle, I'm not sure how this works for copyright, as I came up with the patt independantly, I feel quite comfortable using it in any way I see fit for myself, but am not sure how it would affect sharing and on public forums such as this.

I have searched and searched to find some instructions for this quilt to answer your questions. I remember some one posting a link, but can't find it. All I've been able to find is a book written by a Sara Nephews so here is the link for that anyway http://softexpressions.com/software/books/BigBkBuildBlocks.php if I do find anything else I'll post it here

Fish: The triangles on the larger square are made using the sew and flip method, so you start out with a square the same size as your alternating 4 Patch and 2 smaller squares, each half the finished size of your larger square plus 1/2". Place the smaller square onto the corner of the large, square and sew diagonally across the small square from corner to corner. Press top layer of sm square towards edge, presto finished triangle, no triangle cutting :P You can pretty much make it any size you like. Thankyou so much and I'm so pleased that you liked it
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