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Sew each of your quarter square triangles to a Color 1 half square triangle using a scant  1/4" seam, and pressing seam allowance towards the half square triangle. You will have four of these units; sew two together, as shown...

 

Then sew the other two together, and join these to make the center pinwheel motif...

 

Now sew together two Color 2 and Color 3 half squares, as shown. Add another, and then another. Make four of these units...
 

 

Join two of them to the top and then to the bottom of the center pinwheel, using scant 1/4" seams and pressing seams towards center...
Sew a Color 1  2-1/2" square to either end of the other two half square strips, as shown .Press seam allowances towards centers...
   

   

Add these units to the sides of the center unit, again using scant  1/4" seams. Press seam allowances to the outside....and That's it!!

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Oct 1999 Marcia Hohn

 http://www.quilterscache.com

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