Civil War Tribute Quilt

Civil War Tribute Quilt
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Block of the Month #7 - Card Tricks

You will need four fabrics and a background fabric for this one.  This is one of my favorite blocks.  It looks really hard, but is so easy.  I think you will like this one.

From each of your four fabrics-
Cut - 1 - 4 1/2" strip.  From each strip, cut 2 HSTs
Cut - 1 - 2 1/2" strip.  From each strip, cut 2 QSTs

From Background fabric-
Cut - 1 - 4 1/2" strip.  From this strip, cut 4 HSTs
Cut - 1 - 2 1/2" strip.  From this strip, cut 4 QSTs

Make four 4 1/2" Half Square Triangle units using the background fabric and the four fabrics.  These are the corner units of your block.  You will have four HSTs like this:



Use the QSTs that you cut from each fabric to make this QST unit.  This is the center block


Lay out your pieces around the center square to get the fabrics in the right place.  (Refer to photo below)
Sew a background and another fabric 2 1/2" QST together forming a half square. 
Sew this unit to a 4 1/2" HST to form the sides/top/bottom units. 

Sew the rows together.  (This is the back view of my block)  Press the seams in the top and bottom rows in one direction and the middle row in the opposite direction.


Sew the block together to look like this:

 Congratulations!  You have made another block! 
Now to get block #8 posted.