This makes a 12" block and is from the early 1930's! Reminiscent of the times, let's be frugal about this and do it in old scraps!

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** Preparing the Pieces and Sewing the Block ** 

Cut sixteen 3-7/8" dark and sixteen 3-7/8" light fabric squares in half once on the diagonal.....save half of these for another block, or another project...

Sew each dark half square triangle to a light half square triangle, right sides together, and using a scant 1/4" seam. Press seams to the darker side. Trim to measure 3-1/2" if needed. Make sixteen units like this of all random fabrics...

Now lay out the squares with Dark (D) and Light (L) arranged as shown at left... 

© April 18 2004 Marcia Hohn

Traditional Block

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