Hello my friends,
Continuing on telling you about making blocks with templates.
As you might have noticed, block sets have specific sizes (all my examples are based on Marti Michell templates),
if you look up close Marti Michell's set base which include squares, triangles and quarter triangles have different sizes:
Set A is a set base of 3 inches
Set B is a set base of 4 inches
Set L is a 12 inches for a 7 patch
Set M is a 12 inches for a 5 patch
Set N is a set base of 1 inch
Set Q is a set base of 2 1/2 inches
Set S is a 6 inches for a 5 patch (compatible with Set M)
Set T is a set base of 5 inches
My advice when using templates is to determine what size you need your block to mesure, in order to choose your templates.
Notice that when a template is a multiple in size with an other template they are compatible: Set M allows you to make a 5 patch block measuring 12 inches, and Set S allows you to make a 5 patch block measuring 6 inches. A 6 inch block is the half of a 12 inch block (nothing complicated about that right!!), so those two sets are compatible, you will just need to make 4 blocks with set S that will be the same size as 1 block with Set M.
Another example: Set B has a base of 4 inches, if you make a 3 patch block, it will measure 12 inches. You can also use it with the above blocks.
You will have a 12 inch 3 patch block (made with Set B)
you will have a 12 inch 7 patch block (made with Set M)
you will have a 12 inch 10 patch block (made with Set S) -> if you you don't understand the "10 patch block", it is just that a 5 patch block measures 6 inches, so if you want 12 inches (6 inches x 2) you will need 2 x 5 patch block (= 10 patch block).
If all this is giving you a headache, I am very sorry.
I made some videos on how to use these templates (some are only in French - guess your headache is even worse now!!), you can have a look on how I play with the shapes to make different squares.
Turns out that Marti Michell has a template to make 12 inch houses, so they are compatible with the Set M (video still in French - that headache is still there, kind of figures, French is not an easy language to understand!!)
One last video on the Set S that I had only made once again in French!!
When you use templates, you have to keep in mind that you can't make any type of blocks,
if you have a 4 patch block design and a 5 patch block design, the end size will not be compatible if you use the same template set, in order for those two blocks to measure the same, you will have to use to different templates.
Next week I will tell you about my experience in Designing Fabrics.
Manou
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