Honoring Women's Rights ~ Week 43

A bit of "Taking Care of Business"

On July 1 Google Reader will cease to

exist, so if you follow this blog on Google

Reader we will no longer be connected.

I took the advice of other bloggers and

went to  www.bloglovin.com and just clicked

a button to switch to that site and I get to

keep all the blogs I follow very easily.

Then I added Bloglovin to my favorites

list so I can easily access them.  I hope you

will do the same or something similar so

we can easily stay connected. Thanks ~ Ellen
 

 

Gentleman's Fancy

 

We are quilting along with Barbara Brackman's

Block of the Week, Grandmother's Choice.

 

http://grandmotherschoice.blogspot.com

 

 

This week I made the block according to the

given directions even though I am triangularly

challenged.  I could have made this with half

square triangles but you would not have been

able to fussy cut.  My block is wibbly-wobbly

but it is finished!!!  Did you hear my screams

all the way in Australia?

 

 

Sew a Fabric A small square to opposite sides

of the Fabric D fussy cut square.  Press seams

 to the outside.

 

 

Sew Fabric A small triangles to the remaining

sides of the Fabric D fussy cut  square,  press

seams to the outside.  Square to 4 1/8''.

 

 

Sew a Fabric B small triangle to each side

of a Fabric C large triangle as shown, press

 seams to the outside.  Trim dog ears.

Make 4.

 

 

Sew a Fabric A large triangle to the top of the

unit we just made as shown. Press seam to the

Fabric A triangle.  Do this to all 4 units.

 

 

Sew 2 small Fabric A triangles to the above

unit as shown, press seams to the outside.

Trim dog ears.  Make 2 of this unit.

 

 

Sew 2 of the above units to the center diamond

in a square unit.  Press seams to the outside.

This is the center diagonal unit.

 

 

Sew the 2 remaining triangle units to each side

of the center diagonal unit, matching seams.

Press to within an inch of its life ~ with starch!

Square to 8 1/2''.

 

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

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

 

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