#Journey any way you want it how to

Press the seam towards the diamonds and, and then towards the strip without the diamonds. Then take the other two strips and sew one diamond to one strip and two diamonds to the other strip and sew 1/4″ seam. Match the shorter side of the strip to the triangle and match the ends, pin in place.

#Journey any way you want it how to

Once you know how to put together one triangle block then you can finish the other 5 blocks! I am using the Prop It 18″ x 18″ Quilt Block Assembly Easel to hold my pieces in place and carry them back and forth from my table to my machine. Now that they are laid out, we will start with one center triangle, 3 strips and 3 diamonds to build our first triangle block. Layout your pieces according to the pattern so that you know where all the pieces will go. Pick your colors Cut your strips Pieces but by template Step 2 – Layout your pieces according to the pattern

Just make sure the strips are lined up and use a clip to hold them in place. You could stack your strips and cut multiples at once if you are confident. Once your strips are cut, then use the templates to cut your pieces out of the corresponding strips.

Template 4- Cut 18 pieces (cut from a 1″ strip).

Template 3- Cut 18 pieces (cut from a 1″ strip).

Template 2- Cut 4 pieces (cut from a 6 3/8″ strip).

Template 1 – Cut 6 pieces (cut from a 4 1/2″ strip).

The following strips will need to be cut for each of the templates. Step 1 – Grab the templates and cut your strips! I chose tropical colors, the color of a Hibiscus, sand, sea and sunshine are incorporated into my blocks. I am part of the Fat Quarter Shop Hoffman Batik of the Month club and my batik’s accumulate so that is how I got my fabrics for my blocks. It does look like rays of Sunshine, but I also think it looks like an Orange slice!Ĥ fat quarters of your choice. The block is call Sunshine and I re-created a 12 1/2″ square block to look similar to the one in the publication. We will be starting with the Florida block because I live in Florida! It is a great place to start and for all of you in the states that have cold weather or snow, we can warm things up with some tropical weather. I haven’t seen all the blocks yet, but I feel that I am up for the task! My journey is going to try to re-create these blocks during the year of 2022 for each of the 50 states. People over the years have tried to find these blocks and I think I found a publication in 1977 that was able to put all these blocks together. The publication was done in Newspaper print so was not printed for posterity. In my research I did find that Hearth and Home in 1912 solicited quilters to submit a quilt block that they thought represented their State, and they then published them. Any Way You Want It – A 50 State Quilt Block Journey – I have been trying for months to find out if there are official or unofficial United States Quilts Blocks and just haven’t been able to find anything up to this point.