Quiltville's Miscellany:

Netherlands, 2006!

How Many Quilts?
Ponderings by Bonnie

Behind Her Scrappy Mind

A Quilter's Prayer

The Quilt That Love Built

Quilter's Will & Testament!

Quiltville's Vintage Machines!

My Earlier Quilts:

Bed Quilts

Small Quilts

Quilts for Charity  
Tips & Techniques:

Backing Yardage Charts!

Bed Size Chart

Before You Print It!

Bias Binding Cutting

Binding Hints

Border Hints

Bonus Triangles!

Cutting Squares from FQ's!

Cutting Squares from Yardage!

Cutting Quarter Square Tris!

Freehand Baptist Fans!

Folding The Stash!

Hexagon Tutorial

That Quarter Inch

Leaders & Enders

Mitered Border Chart

My Favorite 1/4" Guide

On-Point Settings

On-Point Sashing Chart

Straight Set Sashing Chart

Paralyzed By The Stash?

Scrap User's System

Scrap User's Testimonials!

Spin The 4-patch Seams!

Square in Square Tutorial

Square in Square Chart

That Quarter Inch!

Webbing The Top

Mystery Quilts:

Easy Street!
Intro
Part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
Part 7
Part 8

Orange Crush!
  Intro
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6

Old Tobacco Road!
    Intro
    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3
    Part 4
    Part 5

Double Delight!
    Intro
    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3
    Part 4
    Part 5
    Part 6
    Part 7

Christmas Lights!
(Quiltmaker Magazine Re-do!)
    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3
   
Quilts Journeys:

Dear Jane

Dear Jane at Sea

DJ Storm at Sea Sashings

Hexagon Medallion

Nearly Insane

Scrap Quilt Patterns:

Basket-weave Strings

Boxy Stars

Bricks & Stepping Stones

Cathedral Stars

Cheddar Bow-ties!

Chunky Churndashes

Crayon Box

Crumbs, Crumbs Crumbs!

Crumb Hearts!

Diamond Strings

Florabunda

Four-Patch & Furrows

Fourth of July

Fun With Bricks

Guilford County Block

Happy Scrappy Houses

Hidden Pinwheels

Hidden Spools

I Spy A Four Patch

Jared Takes A Wife

Little Monkey

Kiss in the Corner

Maverick Stars

Millennium Pyramids

My Blue Heaven

Nine Patch Split

Ocean Waves

Ohio Stars & Rails

Oklahoma Backroads

Out On A String!

Patches & Pinwheels

Pineapple Blossom

Pioneer Braid Borders

Playing With Jacks

Princess Crown

Random Ohio Stars

Road To Camp Gravatt

Scrappy Bargello

Scrappy Mountain Majesties   

Scrappy Trips Around World

Simply Strippy

Sister's Choice

Smokey Mountain Stars

Spiderweb

Spoolin' Around Blocks

Star Struck

Story-Time Stars

Streak of Sunshine

String Quilting Primer

String-X

Strip Twist

Trip Around The World

Weed Whacker!

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Part 3
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Building Blocks!
 
The first units are ready to put together!

The first picture shows the main unit.  Two 4-patches and a pinwheel! You need 82 pieced bricks shown in the above left.

The next picture shows a cropped brick!  Notice that the 4 patch and the pinwheel next to it are all facing the same way as in the full sized pieced brick, but on the far right end, we have a split 4 patch unit.  You need 6 cropped bricks just like this.  Watch the way your pinwheels turn, and the direction the darks are going in each 4 patch. Consistency is important here!

This little piece has a 4 patch and a split pinwheel unit. You need 4 of these.

This is where I'm going to talk to you about pressing.  This is where you might see that it doesn't work to always pinwheel the seams on the back of a 4 patch, or on a pinwheel block towards the dark.  If you "always" press towards the dark, the seams might not butt up if you do. On the 4 patches, I pressed towards the dark on the pairs, but when joining the halves together to make the 4 patch, I press to one side. Sometimes, depending which direction I'm laying the darks in the 4 patch to make the design, I might want to flip the 4 patch around so that the purple (or whatever color) is not in the top position, but where the red is.  That is going to change the direction of the second seam in the 4 patch.  Because I press to one side, I can simply finger press that seam back the direction I need it to go.  I want the seam between the split 4 patch or split pinwheel in the units above to butt together when I join them to the 4 patches, and that means I need to be able to change the direction of the pressing occassionally, depending how I lay out the scrappy units. This is why I am not a stickler on which way to press. I need my options open. I don't stress it to much. Sometimes it requires "GASP" twisting a seam and mashing it flat! Not very often, but sometimes. And do I care? NO.  I'm having stress free fun, and that's what this is about for me.

If you ARE a pinwheeler with your seams, try pressing all the 4 patch seams towards the dark, and all the pinwheel seams around towards the light. That just might do the trick for you.

So there you have it!

Full Pieced Bricks: Make 82
Cropped Bricks: Make 6
4-patch & Split Pinwheel Brick: Make 4

Step 4 will have us in lay-out mode! YEAH!!!

Click HERE for Part 4!

• Intro
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
  

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