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| An issue from 1995 |
Having finished my BOMs and sandwiched them ready for quilting as you go I'm avoiding getting down to the next quilting stage. I am working my way through old magazine runs tearing out anything of interest and discarding the rest. This piece on tessellation caught my eye and I thought it would be good to use with a long held pack of 29 fat quarters from the Sweetwater elementary collection. I'm not particularly fond of these but need to do some using up and I think they would suit a teenager or boy.
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| Leftover pieces |
My oblongs will finish at 6 by 12". Because of the tessellation and interlocking planning is tricky so I started with on point 1" trimming pieces, then a diagram on graph paper and then stuck the fabric to the centre of its corresponding cross. |
First attempt
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The cunning plan
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The plan was invaluable when laying out my pieces on the floor at which point I needed to do some stitching and some unsticking and resticking on my plan. Once fixed I picked up the 12" blocks and piled them on my board separating each with kitchen paper or napkin and each rows worth with a square of fabric, ready to sew.
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| Blocks layered up ready to sew |
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Layout
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Although the sewing isn't challenging I shall have to be careful about the arrangement as the cross pieces are matched with four different corners which link up to form further crosses.
1 comment:
I did that pattern ... similar with the same results ... and put it together by rows. The hardest part was keeping the rows in order once the sewing began. I did a bag with tessellating maple leaves that was similarly complicated.
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