I had trouble visualizing the answer to her question. I am happy to report it turned out to just be a simple cutting issue. In order to arrive at the answer I ended up making a pillow.
This block is FAST! It looks far more complicated than it is. The illustrated techniques in Picnic for cutting and piecing make it a breeze. I think choosing three purples/violets from my stash to get the transparency took longer than the cutting and sewing did.
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| Testing the transparency with darks to the outside. |
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| This time the lights are to the outside and the dark is in the center. The medium remains the intersection. |
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| Individual pieces ready to be sewn. |
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| Pieces sewn together, each column is about 17" long. |
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| Columns shifted for joining together. |
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| Matching up those dog ears!! |
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| The columns are sewn together. They are designed to be trimmed to size later. |
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| Using a ruler to check how and where to trim to 15 1/2". |
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| Here I am trimming the block 3/4" off the top point. I repeated for the bottom point. Keep the side edge of the block square with markings on the ruler. |
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| Trimmed to 15 1/2". Ready for the additional background to be added. |
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| Just a little flat piping added for color, a bit of rounding at the corner, and the pillow is complete. |
