Originally Posted by
feline fanatic
When looking at the picture of the pattern I believe the instructions are incorrect and that you should be assembling in horizontal strips (take each 6.5 x 3.5 "brick" and sew them on the 3.5" side to create a long row of bricks. each row will measure 3.5" high by however long you decide to make it, determined by how many bricks you put in each row) and offset each horizontal strip by half a block when you join your assembled rows. If you make strip sets and then cut them you will lose the stacked brick look and will end up with a look similar to chinese coins.
Maybe I used the wrong terms. You cut 6.5 X 3.5 bricks, then assemble them into strips that go top to bottom. Then you sew those strips together offsetting each strip by 1/2 a block. (I can't post a photo, as it's in a magazine.)
i was thinking you could make up strip sets of 6.5 inch wide fabrics (say 5 or 6 strips) and cut them into 3.5 inch strips, mix them up and turn them and get a good mix.
I'm going to try it. I can't see where it wouldn't work.
bk