Puzzling Piecing
I’m working on a new baby quilt that looks like a very large, squared-off puzzle. It boils down to a bunch of 8″ blocks, but I haven’t yet found a way to batch process them—I have to make each one individually to make sure it has the right fabrics to match up with the next in line, as a piece of each block’s fabric needs to end up in two different adjoining blocks.
![puzzle-detail1](http://raevenfea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/puzzle-detail1-1024x768.jpg)
But, I did sketch out the whole quilt with fabric placement, so it’s moving along steadily without too much ripping. Here’s a blueprint for the blocks.
Pieces (of each fabric):
2: 3.5″x8.5″ strips
1: 2.5″x 4.5″ strip
2: 2.5″x2.5″ squares
![puzzle-block-diagram](http://raevenfea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/puzzle-block-diagram-1024x768.jpg)
As you can see, the 2.5″ square of each fabric get pieced into the adjoining blocks—either top and bottom or left and right.
![puzzle-detail2](http://raevenfea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/puzzle-detail2-1024x768.jpg)
16 down, 26 to go for my 48×56″ quilt.
It’s a great block if you have reasonably-sized scraps and love to piece small chunks at a time!
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