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Old 01-05-2015, 09:50 AM
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Tartan
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The fabric you have chosen will give you somewhat the same blocks but you will have more dark ones then coloured. OBW take a lot of fabrics because you need 6 repeats of pattern on the fabric. OBW pattern is made up of equilateral triangles sewn together in half rows. It is tempting to sew the whole hexagon together but those are hard to sew to each other then.
There are books that will take you through the steps of cutting the fabric and stacking 6 layers on top of each other to cut on Amazon. There is also a cutting Tutorial on QB I believe but you will have to look for it in Archives. Archives are located on the main page of QB at the very bottom. Click on it and then Tutorials for a complete list.
As other have mentioned it is a hard pattern as your first but determination goes a long way. You might also watch some YouTube videos for general quilt construction tips. Good luck!
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