Originally Posted by
dakotamaid
I watched that demo this morning. One question, when she showed her completed block there was no way you could sew those blocks together without cutting off the points of the periwinkle. Did I miss something?
if you watch closely you will see that by cutting along the bottom of the triangle paper she is also cutting off what could/should be the quarter-inch seam allowance for assembling the block.
if you lay your 1/4" line along the paper (thus cutting 1/4" below the bottom of the paper) you will not create snub-tailed kites when you assemble the block. my mental geometry is a bit rusty, but i think that might result in a rectangle that can be trimmed back to a square. since you would not be trimming at any points or point-joins, the blocks should all go together properly.