QUBE QAL block 9 and 10

It’s time for Block 9 and 10!

at first I was going to separate them, but they are very similar, so why not cut them out and sew them together at the same time?

Block 9 I call a stingray, it sort of looks like one doesn’t it? especially in Blue!

Block #10 is almost the same but with background sides so now it looks like a dagger doesn’t it?

As you can see too, these are BLUE so they are both in a new row and you’ll be making 4 of each one!

You’ll need the companion Angles set for this too!

From the background fabric (white) cut out

8 of shape #5

16 of shape #8

and 4 + 4 reversed of shape #14 (if you fold the fabric twice when cutting you’ll get half of each)

From Color A (blue) cut out

8 of shape #5

and 8 of shape #15

From color B (a different blue) cut out

4 + 4 reversed of shape #14 just like above.

Here’s my 6” version cut out

for the “blue” I used a turquoise and for shape 14 I used a solid so I didn’t have to pay attention to right or wrong sides

Here’s my 8” version in scrappy blues and yellow background

For the 9” version I used this directional bunny as my “blue” and I cut 4 one way and 4 another way on die #15 then realized they should all have been pointing one way, oh well, it doesn’t really matter.

I also didn’t have enough of a FQ to cut out the background so I cut enough with two FQ scraps and I had some red left that I used for the #5 triangles (another sort of mistake I realized later, you’ll see at the end)

The 10” version I used just red and yellow and the black floral background fabric

with the 12” version I used blue scraps and white on white scraps, since the pieces are large I had to really search for big pieces, but I made it work

Then star sewing together the HSTs from the #5 triangles, you can’t mess those up, there’s only one way they go together

And then I started the stingray/daggers by sewing one side triangle #14 to the sides of the “blue” #15 kite shape

Then finish the stingray/dagger kite blocks

Then after that you sew the HSTs and rectangles to the kite blocks like this, iron the seams open as the “stingray” will get bulky right by the “tail” otherwise.

Do you see my mistake in the 9” bunny blocks? they are both daggers now, oh well, no one will know on this quilt!

and here’s the 12” blocks, the white is very scrappy but it’s white on white so you can’t really tell from the picture

Then sew them together into sets of two like this

and then into a long row with all 8 blocks

And then sew this row to the bottom of your quilt top so far

Here’s my 6” qube version

and 8” version

and 9” version, I then noticed the red was the scraps leftover from the row before- that’s what I get for making several blocks at a time and not doing them close together, it doesn’t look bad but I didn’t plan on it…