VS Sampler… Block 8

July 2 2018. We spent the long Canada Day Weekend in Prince Albert Saskatchewan. We had a family gathering to celebrate my great niece Chelsea’s Graduation, I gifted her a quilt. She is a huge roughrider fan..so I made her a Rider Quilt.. She loved it. This quilt has special meaning as not only is she a fan but she got sent to the Gray cup in edmonton as a make a wish.. Chelsea in in remission from childhood leukemia were lucky to have her with us. Were so proud of her for achieving so much in her life so far she is a strong young lady.

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Now onto VS Block 8

I always like to start with the simplest units so looking at this block there are Four 1/4 triangle Squares.

sew red to white and red to black press towards red.

8 HST so we will start with those.

Next we will build the center star.

place long sides of orange and red together

sew and leave 1/4″ at the top where the black piece goes andpressed towards red

Place on the orange right sides togetherts side

sew with the orange facingup and sew just to the seam

now align the triangle on the red side and fold away from the peice your going to sew

sew with red up and sew to the seam line

Sew the next peices short sides together

add in the corner squares in the same fashion s the star

This is what we have pieced so far.

The last step is to sew the outside into sections 2 long and 2 short. Assemble the short pierced sides with the center then sew on the large rows.

add black corner squares to 2 of the short sections

Progress so far.

Now to sew the block together. Its important to a vertical pin to line up the points and 2 horizontal pins on each side of each pin to hold it all in place so that it will not shift