Old 05-22-2017, 08:10 AM
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Faintly Artistic
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Default Anyone interested in a no waste, easy granny square quilt tutorial?

Hi all,
I recently cut all of my scraps into usable sizes and ended up with a decent sized stack of 2" squares. I decided they would look good in a granny square quilt, so I started looking up how to make one. The traditional method of making the blocks then cutting off the 16 outer triangles to make the block square didn't appeal to me because of all the waste. So I looked up a "no waste" method which had you create setting triangles for each block (16...UGGH). So, I started laying the squares out on the design board and started thinking about long diagonal strips and knew I would sew the wrong ones together at some point. Then I noticed that it's just a bunch of 9 patches on point. I'm including a couple of pictures to show that, but is anyone interested in a tutorial? I have never written one, but am ready for the challenge. It's a great block to use up scraps...[ATTACH=CONFIG]573485[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]573486[/ATTACH]
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