Alycia is hosting a QOV Sew-Along called The Ribbon. She released Step 2 last Wednesday and it is to make the hourglass (or quarter square triangle) blocks.
Alycia's instructions are to mark the center diagonally then sew a scant 1/4 on either side of the line of opposite colors. This makes one set of hast's. You then place two hst's together so the colors are opposite, mark, sew scant 1/4 inch. I'm not a fan of this method as my 1/4 seam always is off and so is the resulting block.
😢
So I went searching the World Wide Web for the method to make hourglass blocks with 4 patches. Thanks to Preeti and a 10 year old post, she describes her method here. Preeti even includes a chart for multiple sizes! One down side of this method is that all the edges of the blocks are BIAS.
Enough said...pick your poison, quilt friends. 👻
I've made 23 out of 31 hourglass blocks that are needed for The Ribbon Quilt. To the left are Alycia's instructions, the middle are my blocks and to the right are my trimmings. I did need to pull out my large Strip Tube Ruler from Cozy Quilts to trim my blocks to 8 inches unfinished.
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