Honoring Women's Rights ~ Week 28

Ocean Wave

 

 

We are quilting along with Barbara Brackman's

Block of the Week, Grandmother's Choice.

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com

 

 

This is how I made my block, the instructions

are a bit different from the original.

 

 

Fabric Requirements:

 

Fabric A: White Print

5 - 3 1/4'' squares - Mark a

diagonal line on back.

 

Fabric B: Blue

5 - 3 1/4'' squares

 

Fabric C: Floral

1 - 2 7/8'' square - cut on diagonal

1 - 4 7/8'' square - cut on diagonal

(you will only need 1 half)

 

Fabric D: Coral

1 - 2 7/8'' square - cut on diagonal

1 - 4 7/8'' square - cut on diagonal

(you will only need 1 half)

 

 

Make Half Square Triangles:

Pair Fabric A and B 3 1/4'' squares

with right sides together.  Sew 1/4''

away from each side of drawn line.

Cut on drawn line, press seams to the

Fabric B.  Square to 2 1/2''.

 

 

Quarter Unit #1 - 4 Patches

 

Layout half square triangles as shown and

sew together in 2 rows.  Press seam in row 1

to the left and seam in row 2 to the right.

 

Sew rows together.  Square to 4 1/2''.

Make 2.

 

 

Quarter Unit #2 - Step 1

 

Layout units as shown and sew the half

square triangle to one of the triangles as

shown.  Press to the triangle, trim off the

little dogear.

 

 

Quarter Unit # 2 - Step 2

 

Pin the other triangle and sew to above unit.

(I stress pinning this because it is easy to sew

this to the wrong edge...)  Press to the triangle.

Trim dogears.

 

 

Quarter Unit #2 - Step 3

 

Sew the large triangles to the units and

press seam to the large triangle.

Square to 4 1/2''.

 

 

Layout units as shown and sew together

in 2 rows.  Press seam in row 1 to the left

and seam in row 2 to the right.

 

 

Sew rows together and square to 8 1/2''.

 

Check out everyone's work on Dustin's Flickr site.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/grandmotherschoice/

 

 

I've always been interested in the WAVES,

maybe that is due to my own time spent on

the high seas when I was a Sea Scout as a

teenager.  That's me above, on our boat, The

Seahorse ~ I'm the one with her hand clutched

to her throat...

 

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See you next Sunday!

~Ellen