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QuiltStudio.ru - о квилте, пэчворке и лоскутном шитье. A caravan of noisy geese was stretching Part I


on the threshold of the holiday

We were talking until now about patchwork blocks of different levels, as well as their foundation there is a block that takes a single cell, the block of the first level has attracted frequently our attention. We agreed we will focus on the fact that our cells multi-levels blocks, and single-level, too, are square. In other words, our first-level blocks are the same length and height. But there are blocks which have the height is half the length. If we look back to our square cells, then in one of them can enter two such blocks added on each other like bricks. Lets see some of them:

a block from two stripes а). Two colored rectangles – if you sew these blocks, turning them constantly at 90 degrees, you can get “zigzag stitches”. There are other possibilities in this block, but today I do not want to tell about it.
a block from triangles b). These are the same rectangles, but inside each of them are a the big triangle in the center and two at the edge. This block has more possibilities, it creates a multi-levels blocks and are not only due to rotation or connection with other blocks of the first level. Due to the fact that each strip and its component consists of three parts, a block in itself can look quite diverse.
half blocks and their derivatives c). Let’s go back to the beginning and talk about half a block, which can be folded to form a block of the first level. As we can see, these halves can be connected not only with their counterpart. Joining together different types of half-blocks, you can create new types of blocks of the first level. A halved block, which in my scheme consists of triangles, is called flying geese. It is not difficult to imagine such a “goose”, if you imaginary distance from the image of the fir-tree, which is present on my schemes today.

The block “flying geese” is found often than you can imagine in patch technique. And it is not surprising that the patchwork-masters, trying to accelerate the process of manufacturing of such blocks, had invented a number of methods. I’ll introduce you to them in the future, but now I tell you about them, which I had never met before, and thats why I have no false modesty I can call this idea of mine little know-how. And so, we begin:

1 stage 1. We need to prepare for one pair of such blocks 1 large rectangle of fabric of the color of the “goose” and 4 smaller squares of fabric which will create the background of the “goose”. About the size I say below. As well as I had already had to do before we lay on the two opposite corners of the rectangle by one square and stitch on their diagonals. Stepped back to the width of the allowance, we cut the excess off. You can observe between the lines, that if the size of the truncated part can form a small block of 2(1/2K), then before you cut the spare, it is better to retreat from the first line 1.5 cm in the direction of the corner, lay a line parallel to the first, and then cut between them two in the center. Thus, you save the off cuts for something useful and pleasant.
2 stage 2. After ironing the seams and exposing the details, we apply two squares on the remaining corners of the rectangle and again perform steps from point 1. These squares come only in contact with each other, while they do overlap with those that were sewn before.
finishing stage 3. As a result, we obtain the same rectangle, but its angles are from other tissues. It remains only to cut the center of its long sides, and the result is 2 blocks of “flying geese“.
If we need such blocks from the same “geese”, but with a different background for them the squares which we put at the corners must be from the tissue that is needed. In other words we are applying not the same as in the photo but colored squares.
2 blocks of FLYING GEESE in mirroring
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