Thursday, December 29, 2016

Sleuthing a Block




There's a block I found on Pinterest that's haunted me for a long time.

At least a year.

It was published in a magazine in 2012,
along with the tutorial.

I've searched for the magazine on Ebay with no luck,
so I finally pulled out some scraps and tried to dissect the block to make my own.

Here's the block as it's found on Pinterest:


I just love the look when the white right angles meet up as they sit next to another block!

I figured this would make a cool quilt using scraps.
I've got plenty of them!

As the block went into beta mode, I came up with this:


It was OK, but not the same dimensions as the Pinterest original,
so back to the cutting board I went.

I made the white strips wider and the colored strips narrower.

My next prototype came out perfect:


I felt like Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory!
I broke the code!

I'm not exactly sure what I'll do now that I've figured it out.

It will stay in the back on my mind and on my to-do list,
but it will definitely be used soon!

*Day 29 of 31 Days of Blogging Challenge


2 comments:

  1. Way to go! I am impressed! I am looking forward to seeing an entire quilt made with this block. What a great job you are doing on the 31 day challenge!

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  2. Oh but half the fun is doing the math for blocks and trying to figure out an easier way to make them. I'm wondering if it might be a Fons/Porter pattern which they usually make a "Quilting Quickly" you tube?

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