Does anyone have the formula for cutting the pieces for this patch without templates? It's the four triangle blocks touching the center 4 patch below. Do you know a quick piecing technique for putting them together? My points are both the same color.
TIA
I don't know a formula off the top of my head, but it's relatively easy to draw accurately and simply measure the size of the rectangle you'd have to cut diagonally across to get the orange and purple triangles. You have to cut half of them the opposite diagnonal to the other half so you get 4 triangles one way round and 4 mirror images. The green I can't think of such a good way to do, but drawing it out and working out the height of the strip it would come from, then making a template for the angle would be one way.
Cheers Anne
Anthony, I looked to see if I could unearth my shortcut to Peaky book but I cannot. Try the obvious with scraps. Cut a square the size of your completed 4-patch. Then cut an orange or something rectangle half the size of the finished 4-patch plus ¼" in width Place the rectangle on the square and stitch from the top outside corner down to the center of the bottom of the square.(That 'center' crossing, of course, needs to be ¼" above the bottom edge.) You'll need to do some testing til you find what works. I am just certain that it can be done quickly and precisely without agonizing over piecing triangles. Wonder where all of our 'short cut' quilters are tonight? Still at the SuperBowl sales? Polly
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