QUBE Sampler QAL Block 3

it’s time for block #3

It’s not hard, just a lot of pieces and you have to watch for the bulk in the middle 🙂

You’ll need two colors plus white

Then QUBE shape #2, #4 and #5

In white I cut out 8 of shape #5

Then with one color (blue in this sample) I cut a 5 1/2″ WOF strip from a FQ and cut out 4 of shape #2 (one layer) and then 4 of shape #5

with color two (grey) I cut out a 5 3/4″ WOF strip and cut out 4 of shape #4 (one layer) and 4 of shape #5

When making a block I try to sew as much together as I can before getting up to iron.

Here I sewed the whites to the edges of large triangles and then 4 sets of small HSTs in the two colors

Iron toward dark on the HST blocks and toward white on the flying geese blocks

When working on the center of the block, I had the stripes on the grey go in the same direction AND the seams are ironed OPEN from now on.

Here’s the finished block. Again I paid attention to the direction of the stripes and had them all going in the same direction.

That’s it! block #3 is done.

Here’s my 12″ batik version

Last week I got several no-reply comments about printing the directions and I think one way of doing it, is to copy a picture of the block, either the real picture or a sketch from EQ and then copy it into word, you can then print it or keep it and add notes which dies are used where, if that is too hard I’ll think of something else 🙂

how far have you gotten on your blocks?

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