When I was growing up, there was a cheesy joke: What is Black and White and read all over? A newspaper! Because when you tell the joke you don't know you are saying read and not red. :) Okay what does this have to do with quilting you ask - Well I will tell you.
The Quilt is Black and (Off) White... The read all over is the fact that when I finished all the components (blocks and pieced sashing units) to assemble the quilt, the triangles that were the ends to each row do not fit.
Here I've laid out a few blocks to see how the row go together on the diagonal.
I read - and read - and measured and Re-read and texted a friend. Here's the instructions for #4 fabric.
Here are the layout instructions -
I don't know what's wrong, this pattern was a block of the month and is really old so there may have been a correction and I didn't get - but the cutting instructions do not work no matter how hard I tried. I can't cut a 5 1/4" sq twice and get it to fit a 4 1/2" block. SO.... I have enough fabric and ended up cutting more pieces. I did have to change the smaller triangles to #5 fabric instead of #4, but actually that way the whole outside is the same fabric so it works fine. Here are the first few diagonal rows sewn together.
I keep you posted on how the rest of it works.
Blessings,
Lynn
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