More Tiny Triangles

I've made another 4 FW blocks, Snowball, Spool, Country Farm and Attic Windows. These are all straightforward 9-patch blocks.

However when looking through the blocks I haven't yet done I realised that there were still several that need half-square triangles that finish to an inch. I had a go at making some by drawing around a paper template:

but they are difficult to draw and I don't stitch a very straight line with my dodgy wrists so although they were O.K. I have reverted to my usual method of drawing a grid. I started with two ten inch squares and drew a 2" grid and then drew in the diagonals so that they went in opposite directions on adjacent squares because you can then stitch a continuous line.

 It is a bit of an intellectual challenge to work out where to go in order to keep going - a topology problem slightly more difficult than the ones I use to do with my class of infants!




Then you cut on all the lines.
you do have to trim them to one and a half inches but you can do them as they are needed, not necessarily all at once!

And if you choose a fabric with a diagonal stripe you end up with two sets, stripes going in different directions!

Fame at Last!

They've put up my pic and instructions for making a Bookwrap on the wordpress bookwraps site here!

 

version 1

Playing with tiny triangles today, just trimmed 50 of the little blighters, put in a new blade halfway through and wondered why I didn't do it sooner... I am planning to make Farmer's Wife Star Gardener block.  

 

 

 

 

 

I laid it out on the table and it didn't look right:

I realised I had the half square triangles rotated so the dark was where the light should be.

I started to turn them round, then found another interesting combination before arriving at the correct layout.

 

 

version 2

 

 

 

 

 

I just hope they don't all get mixed up again when I sew them together or I'll have yet another version...

version 3