Originally Posted by
MartiMorga
That all looks easy enough, except the pockets for the advent gifts are missing. How about instead of HST try something similar to the pinapple technique. Have a square and sew a folded square on top when assembling?
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I had not a clue what an advent gift was, nor that there were pockets to put one in.
Ah, and that now explains the color placement of the HST blocks in the borders.
Yep, your solution would work perfectly.
That would require 24 squares of each color, instead of the 12 indicated above.
And I would cut them all at 2.5" exactly since there is no diagonal seam allowance to worry about.
Fold and press the red squares in half on the diagonal.
Place on a white square, and sew it with 1/8" seam allowance on the red sides.
(I think doing this extra step will just make handling the HST blocks easier.
I suppose you could pin the two pieces while sewing 2 blocks together, but it doesn't seem like that much more work to not have loose, flapping edges.)
Then you can just prepare the borders strips the same way as posted previously.
And now you really have to take care of the positioning of the blocks, because if a block is upside now, you can't put a gift in.
Which seems to be the whole purpose of the quilt, right?
