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Old 04-10-2015, 06:42 AM
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PaperPrincess
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Originally Posted by Genden
Actually that is not the instructions. The dark nine patches are enlarged by sewing to each side of the nine patch a unit consisting of square piece in the center with a triangle cut from a square (diagonally in half) on each side with a another triangle (this triangle is from a square cut diagonally twice.) sewed to the bottom of the square. This makes a square block when these units are sewed on all four sides of the dark nine patch. Then you make criss cross blocks, side blocks and corner blocks. This requires sewing small pieces, lots of them that are 2 3/8" squares and triangles, some cut two from the 2 3/8" squares and some 4 cut from the 2 3/8" squares. Then these blocks are sewn in horizontal (not diagonal) strips. To me they have made it more complicated than it needs to be and too many little pieces to cut, handle and sew. That's why I am exploring an easier way and hoped someone had made this quilt.
Huh???
OK, I enlarged the picture, and I see what you are talking about.
There's no reason why you can't strip piece it. Do you need help figuring it out?
I don't think writing to the designers is going to help. You don't need their permission to use a different construction method & they probably are not going to rewrite the pattern just for you...
Curious to see if you get a reply.
I will say that this is a darned cute pattern!!
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