12" block "Cracker Pattern" does anyone know where I can get it?
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12" block "Cracker Pattern" does anyone know where I can get it?
I have been searching all day long online to find a pattern for a 12" finished block with the Cracker pattern...I am having no luck Does anyone know where I can find it? Thanks....I did however find a bunch of cracker patterns with 6" finished blocks but I am afraid those are too small, and I want a large 12" block..thanks!
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What is a cracker block? Do you have a photo?
Edit: This should be easy to draft, even for a beginner. Just take graph paper 12 by 12 inches, draw out your pattern following the 6 inch pic, cut apart and add your 1/4 seam allowance.
Edit: This should be easy to draft, even for a beginner. Just take graph paper 12 by 12 inches, draw out your pattern following the 6 inch pic, cut apart and add your 1/4 seam allowance.
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http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpa...lt-pattern.htm
The block looks like this and I am having a terrible time calculating today with my head cold and I can't seem to find out what my 3 center pieces should be...I know the triangles are 6 7/8" square and you just cut it in half..its the 3 strips that go in the middle that I can't get to come out right, at first I thought they should be 3" wide but that ends up too short...I do have the length down though...not sure of any of that made sense I was just hoping that someone had the actual pattern I could save and put in my file..thanks though!
The block looks like this and I am having a terrible time calculating today with my head cold and I can't seem to find out what my 3 center pieces should be...I know the triangles are 6 7/8" square and you just cut it in half..its the 3 strips that go in the middle that I can't get to come out right, at first I thought they should be 3" wide but that ends up too short...I do have the length down though...not sure of any of that made sense I was just hoping that someone had the actual pattern I could save and put in my file..thanks though!
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Thanks that is the one I found too, but when I cut out of printing paper the shapes the 3.5" X 9" stipswas too big to come out on a 12" block...its a number a tish over 3" but I am not sure what that fraction is :/
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I drew out a 12x12 block on graph paper. The middle strips come out to be WITHOUT seam allowances to be 2 and 13/16ths by 8.5. You can always round that to 2 and 7/8th and trim down a bit. So I would cut my middle strips to 3.5 by 9, sew them together and trim down if needed. This block doesn't seem to be an exact science. The triangles would be 6 and 7/8th as you stated before. Try one in scraps and see how it goes.
Oh Courtney, we were both on the same track!!
Oh Courtney, we were both on the same track!!
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Thanks dakotamaid and everyone else! I think my issue sometimes is perfectionist...my blocks always have to be exact and when I run into a pattern that doesn't come out to be a finished whatever they say it is supposed to be and needs trimming I'm like ...... >:/ hahaha...that pattern that I did find said to do the 3.5 x 9 stips but I just thought wow there must be a closer # so you don't have to trim but maybe I will have to trim regardless. Thanks for the help everyone!
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