This design is by Tania, a new quilter who is participating in the NewBee. She came up with a lovely design and I’m helping by writing a tutorial for the bee.
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Block size: This tutorial makes one 9.5″ square block.
Materials: Three colors of fabric. In this tutorial Fabric A is purple, Fabric B is blue and Fabric C is yellow. You’ll need one 10″ square of Fabric A, and scraps of the other two for one block.
Cutting: From Fabric A: cut one 9.5″x5.5″ rectangle and one 7.5″x4.5″ rectangle. From Fabric B: cut one 3″ square and one 2.5″ square. From Fabric C: cut one 3″ square.
Place the two 3″ squares right sides together and cut along one diagonal.
Sewing: First seam two of the triangles together along the diagonal.
Press the seam. I pressed to one side here, but it will be easier to sew the rest of the block if you press this diagonal seam open.
Once pressed, you want to square this piece up to be 2.5″ square. To do this, place your ruler so that the 45-degree diagonal lies on the seam. Trim to remove the dogears and to reduce to 2.5″.
Now lay out the pieces of the block in this order.
Sew the triangled square to the remaining square of Fabric B as shown. Press the seam away from the triangled piece.
Then sew this piece to the small rectangle of Fabric A. Again, press the seam away from the triangled piece.
Finally sew this to the larger rectangle of Fabric A. Press the seam away from the triangled piece.
thank you so much for writing this up for me!!!
Seems very straightforward! Though with making the triangle piece, doesn’t it make sense to use the other half for a second block? In other words, this method seems to lend itself to making two blocks at once!
With that tutorial, quilting doesn’t seem too hard! Someday I shall have to try it. And come back here for the tutorial…
Do you know Anna Williams’ work? If not, you should check out her quilts.
love this. thanks for the tute. this block was made for solids! that was sweet of you to do too!