Help Identify Block
07-08-2018, 10:40 AM
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Help Identify Block
Can anyone identify this block? I found it online years ago. It puzzles me how it goes together. It looks like it might include "Y" seams. Does it look familiar to anyone?[ATTACH=CONFIG]597438[/ATTACH]
07-08-2018, 10:49 AM
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It looks familiar; I might have made it in a inch finished square in Laura A. Hird's series. You might check out the site of www.quilterscache.com and see if you find it there. Meanwhile I will see if I can find it or maybe some else on this site does know it or can find it.
07-08-2018, 01:27 PM
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Break the block into quarters. Here are directions for each quarter:
1. Sew a pink half square triangle to the end of a 45 degree diamond.
2. Sew that unit to a red half square triangle, meeting the side of the diamond with the hypotenuse of the red triangle.
3. The outside triangles are quarter square triangles. Join two together along the short side.
4. Add to the unit created by steps 1 and 2.
No Y seams required.
When “half square triangle” is used, it means a 90 degree triangle, not a completed half square triangle unit. Don’t have time to do the measurements right now;maybe someone with EQ can weigh in.
1. Sew a pink half square triangle to the end of a 45 degree diamond.
2. Sew that unit to a red half square triangle, meeting the side of the diamond with the hypotenuse of the red triangle.
3. The outside triangles are quarter square triangles. Join two together along the short side.
4. Add to the unit created by steps 1 and 2.
No Y seams required.
When “half square triangle” is used, it means a 90 degree triangle, not a completed half square triangle unit. Don’t have time to do the measurements right now;maybe someone with EQ can weigh in.
Last edited by Krisb; 07-08-2018 at 01:41 PM.
07-08-2018, 05:07 PM
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It's a very interesting block. It could be converted into Square in a Square in a Square block very easily. I drew the block as originally shown in EQ7. The second picture is the outline of the pieces in the block. The third is the colored version.
Edited to Add: No Y seams in the final draw. All pieces added to the first square are QST's. It would be a much easier pattern to sew. The problem will be keeping the 3D aspect that the solid pieces give. I would try this on a test block to see if you like the variation.
Edited to Add: No Y seams in the final draw. All pieces added to the first square are QST's. It would be a much easier pattern to sew. The problem will be keeping the 3D aspect that the solid pieces give. I would try this on a test block to see if you like the variation.
Last edited by Barb in Louisiana; 07-08-2018 at 05:10 PM.
07-09-2018, 09:08 AM
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Barb's drawings are very helpful in breaking down the block. I first saw all half-squares which would be do-able, but would require a design wall and very careful placement of colors. Much more difficult.
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