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One, two, three triangles are pieced to create an amazingly versatile block! Don't worry about bias edges, choosing colors, or figuring out yardage - Cheryl's beginner-friendly steps, helpful charts, and complete instructions for a variety of sizes make your job super easy. Start with a small and simple project, then move on to a more ambitious quilt. This block has so many looks, you'll never get bored!
- Anyone can master this simple triangle block, then progress from easy table runners to complex-looking bed quilts
- One easy block, vary the colors and the layout, and reap unlimited design possibilities!
Excerpt:
Can I tell you a story about how I made the Play Time quilt shown at left? Once, just for fun, I made a beautiful quilt from Jan Krentz's book Hunter Star Quilts and Beyond. Of course, I didn't want to do it exactly like hers so I made a bunch of half-square triangle blocks to put around the outside for a border. Only I failed to measure the quilt center to make sure they would fit where they needed to go. Let's just say that the quilt now has plain borders and I was left with a stack of these blocks in all of my favorite colors of dark batiks. So, I dug through my fabric stash to make squares of a single light fabric. I put the light squares on top of the dark half-square triangle blocks, cut them diagonally, and stitched them along the bias. The result was two blocks with three triangles each (two quarter-squares and one half-square), but the blocks were mirror images.
I used those first Y Blocks to make the Assorted projects from Fun with One Block QuiltsPlay Time quilt and found as I played with them that they could be used to form lots of interesting patterns and designs. That made sense since these units have long been used in many traditional patchwork quilts. They can be used to make stars and pinwheels, diagonal lines, and much more. They were generally just fun to play with and a great starting point for a burst of creativity. I found I could design quilts that ranged from very traditional to very artsy just using the Y Block with a few half-squares and plain blocks thrown in once in a while. This was really exciting, but I soon noticed that they didn't get along with their neighbors very well. That one long diagonal seam was not nesting with the seams in the next block all the time, and the result was lumpy, unmatched seams. Fun with One Block Quilts addresses that issue and supplies some great tips for perfectly matched, no-fear triangles every time!
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