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Old 07-10-2009, 08:39 PM
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bearisgray
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Are you familiar with Doreen Speckman's Peaky and Spike?

It looks to me like it's a nine-patch - built from five four-patch units and four Peaky and Spike units. But the author isn't using the same angles that Peaky and Spike used.

The four-patch units could be strip pieced.

I'm having a serious problem with the dimensions given for the pieces.

The author states that this is a 14 inch block

The four squares will finish into a 4.75 inch unit. (5.25 inches "unfinished")

Are you able to redraft this into either a 12 or 15 inch block. It would make drafting and cutting considerably easier.

And I don't think there is an "easy" way to construct the triangle units.




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