Currently I am making some 10.5 inch blocks with a fabric underlayment, with 2.5 inch black strip crosswise across the block and then selvage edge strips on both sides of the black until the square is filled. I whipped up over 50+ of these almost before I realized it.
Wow! So much fun.
Must take some pictures of those.
Now, however, I need to trim all of those 50+ blocks. BORING!
From now on, I will trim them as I make them. Yowser....
I started creating the blocks for the reverse side as I am going to make these up in a Quilt-As-You-Go style with the selvage edge blocks.
I am using a modified version of the Moda BakeShop pattern Labyrinth. I say modified because I need a bigger initial block.
Since my other blocks are 10.5 inches, I need an initial block size of 11 inches prior to cutting them in half and sewing them back together. So I used two 3.5 inch strips, one 3 inch strip (in the middle), and two 1.5 inch white strips to make the initial block.
The BakeShop instructions tell you to cut the blocks in different directions but NO. If you put two squares right sides together and do the cut, then they are cut correctly AND the sets of triangles are already paired for sewing together.
A much better way to do it!
I am going completely scrappy for the labryrinth squares also. So much fun!
Photos will be coming soon!
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