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Old 10-23-2020, 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by seazteddy
I found a bag of pre-cut tumbler blocks, so decided to make a small quilt. I sewed pairs. but when I went to sew the pairs together they didn't go together. I don't understand how pairs can go together but pairs can' go together. Can someone help?
Originally Posted by Julienm1
If they are all the same size and you are sewing in rows, second one has to be flipped top to bottom and off set a little for the to sew even across top and bottom.
Here's a link https://www.diaryofaquilter.com/2020...utorial-2.html
Originally Posted by seazteddy
the blocks are bigger on1 sides, 1 smaller and 2 same size. Missouri star has a tutorial and called them tumbler blocks....
As Dunster pointed out "There seems to be a confusion between tumbler and tumbling blocks." I had forgotten about tumbling blocks until ckcowl posted hers.

Julie posted a good link and the full size picture of how to offset the edges is at https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaTZ1fwPr...0/IMG_6493.JPG

I did a drawing in Paint. Hopefully, your pieces are more consistent then what I was able to do. If you sewed the pairs (indicated by black lines) together on the side indicated by the red arrows, you should have a parallelogram (indicated by the blue line). Then you should be able to sew them together as indicated by the green arrows.



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