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10-12-2014, 07:18 AM
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Took this picture at a club meeting. It's a simple enough block. However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to recreate it. Know it's triangles, but how to make them slightly off center (points not meeting) while keeping the block square is my mental block.
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10-12-2014, 07:28 AM
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It looks like you could take a square, cut it diagonally both directions, rearrange and resew. It looks to me like the offset is more of an optical illusion. But if not, you could just sew the two halves, then shift the seam a bit, sew the last seam, then square it up.
10-12-2014, 08:18 AM
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It looks like the centers don't meet because the dominant colour of the strip along the edge is changed when cutting out the triangle. So light strip on one piece is meeting the dark strip on another.
If you want to off set them though it would be simple to do. Over cut your triangles, sew 2 together to make half the block, sew 2 more together and then move one half down to the desired off-set, sew the halves together and trim the block to the desired square.
If you want to off set them though it would be simple to do. Over cut your triangles, sew 2 together to make half the block, sew 2 more together and then move one half down to the desired off-set, sew the halves together and trim the block to the desired square.
10-12-2014, 08:19 AM
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I zoomed in as large as my browser would allow. I agree with joe's mom. I think it's an optical illusion due to the striped fabric. If you zoom in and look at the fuchsia block on the right, and the green/tan one above it you can see that it's just striped fabric. The blocks wind up with the bias at the outside edges. Some of the blocks are quite square, with the seams hitting the corners perfectly. Looks like some of them got stretched a bit and the seams got misplaced.
10-12-2014, 08:21 AM
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It is just center seam that give the look of being off set. I would make my triangles at least 2" bigger, sew them together with the offset seam and then trim the block down to a square size. HOPE that makes sense. You will be dealing with a bias edge on ALL sides of your blocks.
10-12-2014, 08:21 AM
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It looks like you could take a square, cut it diagonally both directions, rearrange and resew. It looks to me like the offset is more of an optical illusion. But if not, you could just sew the two halves, then shift the seam a bit, sew the last seam, then square it up.
Simple pattern and looks to set together quickly---------except for the bias cuts.
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