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Puzzling Piecing

Posted in Quilting

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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

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

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

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!

January 14th, 2015

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