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Old 05-20-2019, 06:37 AM
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Iceblossom
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Those are basically Houndstooth or Windmill blocks with the addition of the black sashing between the blades.

When I made my houndstooth quilt I made slightly overlarge two strips of fabric and then skewed my ruler to make the angles. I used a piece of tape on my ruler for the shape I wanted. This would just add the narrow fabric in between, all straight line sewing but you do have to be a tiny bit careful with the slightly bias edges.

Later I found a specialty ruler on clearance that would do basically the same thing but slightly different proportions from my block.

I had planned to make a houndstooth way back in the early 80s, but it took awhile to collect the fabrics and be ready. Just when I was ready M'liss Rae Hawley came out with her first Fat Quarters book, and although I had never seen one in a show, at fair, or anywhere else -- there it was in the book! So I wasn't going to make it because everyone would assume I got the idea from the book. LOL, I was complaining about it to one of my friends at the quilt guild meeting and the lady in front of us was cracking up. Turns out it was M'liss who was the speaker at that meeting. Anyway, she wrote up some nice instructions.
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