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Fabric Gal notes: can anyone figure out what I meant?
I took notes during the Eleanor Burns show so I could do a scrappy
Fabric Gal quilt, but I can't make any sense of these instructions that I took down... "Cut strips 2.5 & 3.5 inches.Use 4 sets of 2 colors. Make a kind of wonky 4patch, then do the half triangle things with the resulting 4.5 by 5.5 rectangles, ending up with 2 block. Set like pinwheels." I think I get the 4-patch part; but then how should I cut it to "do the half triangle things"?? I think if I could figure out how to cut the four-patch I could get the rest.. It seemed so clear at the time. :-( I rememver that you end up with 2 blocks that have reverse color values from each other; but I can't figure out that d** cut! susan kraterfield see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge |
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Fabric Gal notes: can anyone figure out what I meant?
check www.applewd.com
the august block is still online for free download. that explains what it sounds to me like you're doing. i could be wrong but worth a wee check. increase the view to 400%, yes 4 hundred, so you can see how the lines across work. its simple when you see how it works. hope that helps. cheers from the sunny south pacific winter, jeanne -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r nzlstar on webshots gen.gen.co.nz "kratersge" wrote... I took notes during the Eleanor Burns show so I could do a scrappy Fabric Gal quilt, but I can't make any sense of these instructions that I took down... "Cut strips 2.5 & 3.5 inches.Use 4 sets of 2 colors. Make a kind of wonky 4patch, then do the half triangle things with the resulting 4.5 by 5.5 rectangles, ending up with 2 block. Set like pinwheels." I think I get the 4-patch part; but then how should I cut it to "do the half triangle things"?? I think if I could figure out how to cut the four-patch I could get the rest.. It seemed so clear at the time. :-( I rememver that you end up with 2 blocks that have reverse color values from each other; but I can't figure out that d** cut! susan kraterfield see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge |
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Fabric Gal notes: can anyone figure out what I meant?
Susan, how I love your question. I do my notes a bit more thoroughly now
that I'm antique but I have many times had no clue what my notes might have meant. Let's try this - and do it with scraps, please. Doesn't matter in deciphering your note what size or color you use but think on this manner: Lay a 2.5 square of white on top of a 2.5 square of red. Draw a diagonal line corner-to-corner. Stitch 1/4 " away from the line on one side of the line, then stitch 1/4" away from the line on the other side. Cut on the line. That may be what your note means. This will give you 2 half-square triangles. Polly |
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Fabric Gal notes: can anyone figure out what I meant?
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"Marjorie" wrote: Susan, how I love your question. I do my notes a bit more thoroughly now that I'm antique but I have many times had no clue what my notes might have meant. Let's try this - and do it with scraps, please. Doesn't matter in deciphering your note what size or color you use but think on this manner: Lay a 2.5 square of white on top of a 2.5 square of red. Draw a diagonal line corner-to-corner. Stitch 1/4 " away from the line on one side of the line, then stitch 1/4" away from the line on the other side. Cut on the line. That may be what your note means. This will give you 2 half-square triangles. Polly Polly, are you incognito? -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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