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    Old 12-05-2015, 10:56 AM
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    Originally Posted by ranger
    Patrice....are there any hints you can give me?
    I looked at the link to the instructions. Did you add the corner triangles to the windmill row before joining the the rows together?
    I think my problem may be the diagonal of the triangle. The fabric must have stretched because that side had too much fullness when I tried to sew the rows together.
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    yes ... added the corner triangles to the windmill row before joining it to the two big triangle-shaped units.
    i am not 100% sure it must be done that way. i'd have to make a third copy of the block to find out - which i don't plan to do at this time.

    did you starch your fabrics before you cut out your pieces? i always starch the heck out of my fabrics before i make the first cut. if i'm going to be working with any angles at all, i starch the double-heck out of it. the stiffer the fabrics the easier it is [for me] to cut accurately; match the pieces; and sew accurate seams without stretching things out of shape.

    i also used a lot of pins when it came time to join each of the large triangular units to the windmill row.
    i started by pinning each of the points where the triangles poked up against the corners of the square.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537089[/ATTACH]

    after making sure my "point pins" were as straight as possible i added pins on each side.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537090[/ATTACH]

    then i stitched between those pins and checked to see if they'd joined up properly. when they don't, i only have to remove a few stitches instead a whole seam. once i have them joined well enough, i sew the whole seam.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537091[/ATTACH]
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    Old 12-05-2015, 05:37 PM
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    Originally Posted by PatriceJ
    yes ... added the corner triangles to the windmill row before joining it to the two big triangle-shaped units.
    i am not 100% sure it must be done that way. i'd have to make a third copy of the block to find out - which i don't plan to do at this time.

    did you starch your fabrics before you cut out your pieces? i always starch the heck out of my fabrics before i make the first cut. if i'm going to be working with any angles at all, i starch the double-heck out of it. the stiffer the fabrics the easier it is [for me] to cut accurately; match the pieces; and sew accurate seams without stretching things out of shape.

    i also used a lot of pins when it came time to join each of the large triangular units to the windmill row.
    i started by pinning each of the points where the triangles poked up against the corners of the square.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537089[/ATTACH]

    after making sure my "point pins" were as straight as possible i added pins on each side.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537090[/ATTACH]

    then i stitched between those pins and checked to see if they'd joined up properly. when they don't, i only have to remove a few stitches instead a whole seam. once i have them joined well enough, i sew the whole seam.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]537091[/ATTACH]
    Oh...thanks so much!
    I don't usually starch fabrics but I think this block requires it.
    Your photos are a great help. So nice of you to take pics and post them. I appreciate it.
    Will try the block tomorrow after the starching.
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    Old 12-11-2015, 04:44 PM
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    very nice blocks hope to do the blocks in 2016 just didnt have time this year!!
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    Old 12-14-2015, 03:55 PM
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    here is December
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    Old 12-14-2015, 05:02 PM
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    you should be proud of that block. looks great!
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    Old 12-18-2015, 03:49 PM
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    thank you
    I have rally learned a lot with this
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    Super nice. great job. thanks for posting the info.
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    Kathryn - nice job on your block!

    Patrice - thank you so much for the "detailed photos" - hopefully my block will turn out remotely acceptable (ha, ha, ha!!). I'm about "3 blocks" behind - of course, I'm blaming the holidays for my slacking on the BOM's
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    there's no such thing as "behind."
    there is only "i haven't gotten around to it yet."

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    Old 01-08-2016, 06:51 PM
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    Originally Posted by PatriceJ
    there's no such thing as "behind."
    there is only "i haven't gotten around to it yet."

    I do like that "twist" . . .

    BLOCK UPDATE: I still haven't gotten around to it (yet!), but "tomorrow" is another day
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