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This block is just amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?a...uDO8tk&v=L5Ixvjje310

That's soooo cute & easy looking to make. I've made pinwheel blocks using that easy method & they turn out really great. I think I'll have to try a quilt like this sometime.

Good one!!!!!

I watched the viedo.....GREAT!!! Thank you!

Wonder what that block would look like if you tried it with strips...what are those called?

neat idea...but my eyes could not rest...LOL...a great scrappy quilt idea though

I always look forward to the MSQ videos and this one is no exception! Thanks to them & you for sharing!!!!

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Is there some way to do this without working with bias edges?

Neat!

This is how I make my pinwheels! Loved the baby quilt.

I've used that method to make pinwheels and really haven't had any issues with the bias by starching the fabrics.

MSQC has an app for your IPhone - helps pass the time when you're in a waiting area!

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Is there some way to do this without working with bias edges?

Ooops. Thought I had it figured out. Made a sample. Nope. I'm fulla bull!!! Trying something else. Will be back later if I get it figured out.

One final edit. My thought was to make the squares the way I sometimes make basic 4-X squares. That is place two squares of fabric right sides together and stitch a quarter inch from each side if the diagonal. Cut between the stitching lines, press the seams so they nest when the two new squares are placed right sides together, then stitch again on either side of the other diagonal and cut apart to give two new squares.

In my original post I said to sew the second set of diagonal seams before cutting between the first two. Obviously not right!

Here's a sample made using 1.5" strips.

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Using the jelly roll would make it very busy. However, a two color quilt would be fabulous. All shades of blue with a white, for instance. Or reds, or yellows. I need to remember that idea.

I love their tutorials.

I love the idea of controlled colors for each set of strips. That would be stunning. I was also thinking using one solid fabric with a set of strips to tone it down a little.

I expect to see pictures in a few hours! LOL! I can't navigate the stpes down to my sewing room yet or I would volunteer.

Very neat. I can't wait to give it a try.

Isn't this great how much information we can try out and share within minutes!!??? Our grandmothers and great grandmothers had to wait months to exchange new patterns...covered wagons and Pony Express...even ww2 was probably weeks...and no videos!!!!

Bozie thanks for doing the strips...maybe one plain side would work out better.

I'm sure we'll all come with something...went to sleep dreaming about this.

I'm think that to get straight edges on eht sides, you would have to cut the sewn trips on the bias ...Bozie will figure it out I bet...

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I'm think that to get straight edges on eht sides, you would have to cut the sewn trips on the bias Frown ...Bozie will figure it out I bet...

Nope. My strips are cut and sewn together on the straight grain, (They were scraps and I didn't pay attention to if they were crosswise or lengthwise - but they were not bias.)

In pictures - here are two squares cut srom a strip set.

I laid them right sides together with the strips going in opposite directions (one up/down, one right left) then sewed on each side of one of the diagonals, then cut between the seam lines. That gave me straight grain only on the outside edges since the bias seams were sewn before cutting.

I pressed the seams in the new squares, layered them again right sides together with the seam allowances nested, then sewed on either side of the other diagonal. Again the bias is sewn before cutting and the outer edges are on the straight grain.

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I saw this a while back, and used a Stonehenge strip pack, just playing around to see if I liked it.

This is what I came up with -- I will make it into a full quilt eventually.

I cut those apart between the stitching lines to give a final set of squares, the ones I showed above. Once there are sewn together with more blocks I think the overall look will be the same as in the 3 Dudes version. The order of making the seams is just different.

Here's a pic of four of them side by side, not sewn.

Bozie, I like yours. But Nora, that Stonehenge sample is gorgeous! I love that line of fabric and it really is pretty for this pattern.

Wish I had time to try out this block. Hmmm, I guess if I would get off the computer, I might have some time.

I agree. Nora's Stonehenge is gorgeous! I love the subtle colors in those fabrics and her piecing looks perfect.

I didn't bother to sew my squares together. Was just showing how the piecing could be done to get blocks without bias edges. The blocks also could be made starting with bias cut strips but that entail sewing even longer seams on the bias for those who don't like to do that.

Bozie, YOU ARE WOMAN!!!!!!!

Nora, I love love love your blocks. So pretty.

When I looked at the video yesterday, it reminded me of the Hidden Wells quilt by Mary Ellen Hopkins. I found the blog where I first saw it.

http://www.reddawn.net/quilt/hwells.htm

I'll have to study on the two patterns to see if they are similar, but that will have to wait until the weekend. I'm definitely coming back for Bozie's non-bias instructions.