this week’s first block is New Hampshire, it’s EASY!
I think all the pieces are already cut
grab (4) light blue of #8 rectangles — 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ rectangles
grab (4) red of #8 rectangles — 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ rectangles
grab (4) red #6 squares (or cut from 3 3/4″ WOF strip, I didn’t take good notes on this block)- 3 3/8″ square
grab (16) white #5 triangles — 2 7/8″ triangles
grab (1) light blue #1 square — 4 1/2″ square
again it’s pretty easy, sew together the light blue and red rectangles and then diamond blocks from red centers and white triangles
and sew the block together like this with a light blue center
Here’s some info about the Granite state
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Admission to Statehood:
June 21, 1788 (9th State)
Of the thirteen original colonies, New Hampshire was the first to declare its independence from Mother England — a full six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed.
New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die”. The motto comes from a statement written by the Revolutionary General John Stark, hero of the Battle of Bennington.
The highest wind speed recorded at ground level is at Mt. Washington, on April 12, 1934. The winds were three times as fast as those in most hurricanes.
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field in 1719.
In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough.
New Hampshire adopted the first legal lottery in the twentieth century United States in 1963.
New Hampshire’s present constitution was adopted in 1784; it is the second oldest in the country.
On December 30, 1828, about 400 mill girls walked out of the Dover Cotton Factory enacting the first women’s strike in the United States. The Dover mill girls were forced to give in when the mill owners immediately began advertising for replacement workers.
Levi Hutchins of Concord invented the first alarm clock in 1787.
The karner blue butterfly, lynx, bald eagle, short nose sturgeon, Sunapee trout, Atlantic salmon and dwarf wedge mussel are on the State’s endangered species list.
It takes approximately 40 gallons of sap to make approximately 1 gallon of maple syrup.
The Haverhill-Bath covered bridge is the oldest covered bridge still standing in the New Hampshire U.S. It was built in 1829.
The Amoskeag Mills in Manchester houses the biggest United States flag ever created. It was made in 1914 and stretches ninety feet in length and fifty feet high.
In 1938, Earl Tupper of Berlin, New Hampshire created Tupperware.
and some silly facts
Some of the toughest laws have nothing to do with humans. In New Hampshire, cattle are forbidden from crossing state roads without a fitted device to collect their feces.
New Hampshire visitors and residents must never “maintain the national forest without a permit.” This means there is to be no litter collecting, beach raking, or hauling away of trash without applying for a permit first. Do-gooders and nature lovers beware!
When you check into a hotel, make sure to use nothing but your actual name. Doing so under an assumed name is considered illegal in this state.
Seaweed belongs on the beach, so leave it there! Picking it up is considered illegal
When dining out or going for drinks, make sure to ignore the music. If you are caught tapping your feet or nodding your head to keep time you could be considered a criminal.
If you’re in NH on a Sunday and wonder why it is so quiet, it may be because the operation of machinery is illegal on Sunday.
Next block is New Mexico and there’s more diamond blocks!
With dark blue cut a 5 1/2″ WOF strip and cut out (3) #2 squares, save 2 for this block. –2 1/2″ squares
Light blue should already have (2) of these squares cut — 2 1/2″ squares
With red cut a 5″ WOF strip and with die #1 cut (4) squares– 4 1/2″ squares
grab (4) #6 squares– 3 3/8″ squares
and grab (16) white #5 triangles– 2 7/8″ triangles
sew a four patch from 2 light and dark blue small squares and 4 diamond blocks with dark red center squares and white triangles
then sew the block together like this with red squares in the corners
and here’s some information about “the land of enchantment”
Entered Union (rank): Jan. 6, 1912 (47)
Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
The world’s first Atomic Bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo. North of the impact point a small placard marks the area known as Trinity Site. The bomb was designed and manufactured in Los Alamos.
Hatch is known as the “Green Chile capital of the world”.
New Mexico is one of the four corner states. Bordering at the same point with Colorado, Utah and Arizona.
The state of New Mexico shares an international border with the country of Mexico.
The leaves of the Yucca, New Mexico’s state flower, can be used to make rope, baskets and sandals.
The Navajo, the Nation’s largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million Acres.
To a certain degree New Mexico’s Indian Reservations function as states within a state where tribal law may supersede state law.
The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States.
1 out of 4 workers in New Mexico work directly for the Federal Government. State and local governments are also major employers.
After WWII Los Alamos and Albuquerque had many new laboratories. Hundreds of highly educated Scientists and Engineers moved in the state. New Mexico soon had a higher percentage of people with Ph.D.s than any other state.
Since New Mexico’s climate is so dry 3/4 of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don’t wash away.
The town of Deming is known for its annual duck races.
Tens of thousands of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns. The largest chamber of Carlsbad Caverns is more than 10 football fields long and about 22 stories high.
On the same desert grounds where today’s space age missiles are tested, ten-thousand-year-old arrowheads have been found. New Mexican history has ranged from arrows to atoms and has embraced Indian, Spanish and Anglo cultures. Few states can claim such a distinctive past.
“Smokey Bear,” a cub orphaned by fire in 1950, buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976
(the site where I found fun facts, didn’t have a link to anything)
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