Girlfriend

Jan, I love your computer skills. Where on earth did you learn how to do that? Love it!

PATTIESPEARL

Jan, I may be going to have some free time, having a health problem. I may get a chance to sit and learn the type of things that you do. My, you are sharp!

yippie

I think your long strips are for making the bigger block. you cut the strips in to 3.5 square sew them together and make the bigger block it looks to me like the person rotated how the sewed them together. I do not know the name of the block however. Happy sewing yippie

auntlucy

Go to http://www.quilterscache.com/D/Doubl...hainBlock.html
I think your strip may be incomplete or something. If you have enough fabric, just follow her directions to finish the quilt. Her values are placed differently so you will have to use your existing block as a guide for making the strips.

JENNR8R

Couldn't you just make more of the blocks and use the strips as borders?

auntlucy

Oops! The link takes you to pagex3 of thexinstructions. Go to the bottom of the page and there is a link to page 2. You can back up to page one

Treasureit

THank you Auntlucy....this make a lot more sense to me! I couldn't understand this part...Now I wonder if there is enough material to make a decent size quilt. I will look.

wildyard

If you don't have enough for a "decent size quilt" you could always make one the size you can, then enlarge it with borders of your choosing till you are happy with it's size. I've been watching a group that starts with a center square and then sends it around to each other and they each add a border and have been amazed at the wonderful results.
Adding borders can be an amazing and artistic way to enlarge a quilt, whether starting with a block or one that is just a bit too small.

Rose Marie

Your strip set is for a second strip set with the colors opposite then cut to make a 9 patch.
For your block you just need a 2 color strip set.
That's what I see but I could be wrong.

Jan in VA

"Long strip in my plan"??? Not sure I understand what you mean. I'm assuming you mean the white strips - those between the darker blue squares on each side of the center square of BLOCK B. Those white strips are to be cut the same width as the blue strips that make up BLOCK A. Then they can be trimmed to fit each side of the center in BLOCK B. You will add a white strip to opposite sides of BLOCK B, then add a darker blue small square to the ends of 2 of those white strips that you will sew to the top and bottom side of each BLOCK B.

Does that help?

Jan in VA
(Thanks all for your comments on my graphics; I do them ALL in the PAINT program that is included with Windows on my laptop. Here at home, I'll be teaching a class in using Paint in a few weeks.)