A New Variation -- I Wonder Whether I Created This Particular Variation...

I found this block and a bag full of strips to made more of this block so decided to keep going.  It was obvious that I did this a long time ago as I never would put such closely matched fabric together.  I cut a bunch of squares from one of the strips of fabric and soon realized that I had cut them wrong and it did take me some time to work out how to correctly cut them, but only after several mistakes!!

I sewed up a bunch of the fabrics that make up each of the four squares that make up this larger square.  I stuck them up on my design wall and decided I didn't like them at all and figured there must be a better way!

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Here are the two squares cut from the same strip and you put these on top of one another and make a diagonal cut. You then get wthe proper squares to make up the block.  As I mentioned, it took me a while to get this right!

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   This is the arrangement that I came up with, using the blocks individually.  I am going to reorganize them again before I sew them together but I like this a lot better than the origianl. block.

I think I have discovered a much quicker way of making a common block too.  It is really fast to sew long strips of fabric together, cut them into squares and then cut them diagonally to make a block that looks like a square with strips around its.  I only need one seam instead of 8 seams per block.  I don't know wheether anyone has come  up with this variation before but I wanted to document it and will embark on making a quilt that shows this arrangment better next!  

This is the single block.

This is the final top except for some borders.  I had a few extra blocks so they will become potholders as well as some 16 patches I made with the leftovers when cutting the strips!

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