5 inch blocks
01-10-2012, 01:43 PM
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let the sashing tell the story... ignore the blocks and choose a color palette.... purple to mauve to lavendar to yellow, or forest to deep green, to olive to sage... whatever your favorite color range is. Then put the darkest sashing on the bottom row, move up one row and one shade in your palette.... if the blocks are only 5" you can use a sashing that's 4" and overwhelm at the same time you're creating the color spread that's lovely all by itself... the blocks could be in the center, in the corner, off center but in the same position in every square.... anything you do within a large frame will be set off and muted at the same time...
01-11-2012, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ro
hope someone can help. i want to use 5" squares for my disappearing 9 patch. i have 9 different fabrics. how many 5" squares do i cut of each fabric? thank you
01-11-2012, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ptquilts
scrappy trip around the world, or make half-square triangles out of them (the kind where you sew and then cut). Here is one, but there are other ways to set them together. Basically any Log Cabin set, you can use for HST's.
01-11-2012, 05:39 AM
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love the nickle books. just about any scrap pattern can be made with 5" squares - 4 patch - put 2 quares tog, sew two sides (opposite each other), cut down themiddle between the sewn tog sides , press to dark, put tog, stitch sides again, cut down themiddle = 2 blocks ( I have done this, but am not sure I am saying it right)
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