I will not be giving too much instruction on this block. I foundation pieced the little center square and rotary cut the rest. If I had to make it again I think I will just foundation piece the whole thing.
Now that I'm using the freezer paper foundation piecing method. I feel that everything's a piece of cake.
Here's what I did.
Trace the little center square onto your foundation paper, or print the block and cut out the center square.
Number the sections. This is the numbering I used. Because of the intersecting seams you will have to make several pieces and then sew them together.
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Cut apart the sections. As you can see, they don't have seam allowances so don't forget to leave enough fabric around the edges for that when you do the piecing.
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Foundation piece every section separately and trim, adding a 1/4" seam allowance all the way around. Sew them together (top, middle, bottom, and then the four edge triangles). REMEMBER THE SEAM ALLOWANCES.
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Trim off the little fabric flaps. Your little square should measure 2 ¼"
As I mentioned before, I rotary cut the rest.
Out of your main fabric, cut four 1 3/8" squares.
Out of your background fabric, cut four 1 3/8" x 2 ¼" rectangles.
Attach a rectangle to two opposite sides of the foundation pieced square.
Out of the squares and other two rectangles, make two units: square, rectangle, square.
Attach to the top and bottom of your main piece.
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Out of background fabric, cut a strip of fabric 1" wide.
Attach this to your unit in a log cabin fashion, that is, one side at a time, going around the block, trimming it to size after each attachment.
If you prefer to cut the lengths beforehand, they will be 4", 4 ½", 4 ½", and 5" long.
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