Darvanalee Designs Studio : Block of the Month (BOM) March Block #3 2018

Block 3

Saw Tooth

So let us get started!

What you Need:

1 fat Quarter White Fabric - Background (either plain or tone on tone)

1 Fat Quarter each light and dark pink Fabric ( Either plain or print)

Sewing Machine with ¼” foot

Rotary Cutter

Cutting Mat

Quilting Ruler

Matching Threads

Thread Snips

Best Press

Iron and Ironing Pad

Cutting Instructions:

You can Find your printable cutting instruction HERE

Cutting Instructions

From the White Background Fabric

Cut 2 ✂ 4⅞” Squares then cut diagonal to yield 4 triangles.

Cut 10 ✂ 2⅞” squares of each colour, then cut them Diagonally once to yield

20 triangles of each colour.

Dark Pink Fabric

Cut 2 ✂ 4⅞” Squares of Drak Pink, then cut diagonal to yield 4 triangles.

Light Pink
Cut 5 ✂ 3⅜" Squares of the Light pink

Block Assembly

Now onto the Assembly of your Block

and Don't forget we have a Video Tutorial for you

to follow along with you can find the Video

HERE

*****Note****

We are using SCANT Quarter inch seam allowance throughout the pattern and pressing Seams Open. Please Reduce your stitch length

2.0 or 1.8 depending on your machine.

First, we are going to create our Half Square Triangles (HST)

You will be creating 4 of these. Reduce your stitch length to 2.0 or lower to what

The machine will allow, We do this as we are opening up our seams. This action of lowering

Our stitch length will stop the block from coming apart.

To Create your 4 HST units, you will,

take your white and Dark Pink triangles

with right sides together sew an

Scant ¼" inch seam allowance from one corner

diagonal to the opposite corner.

Now Press open.

Your HST should now look like the picture below

Repeat with the remainder of the triangles.

You will now have 4 unit.s

HST

Next, we are creating our Light Pink Diamond Blocks

you will be creating 5 of these sets.
Take 5 of your White small triangles at a time
and your 5 light pink sqares and find the center
of both the Square and then on the longest side of the triangle.
Match these center points up, and place a pin and chaine piece
with a Scant quarter inch seam allowance. Press seams open.
Now repeat on the opistsite side
once you have done this, Press open again.
Next we do the same thing again to the remaining sides of the
of the square and repeat till you have 5 Diamond Blocks as
pictured below

Remembering to use aScant ¼” seam allowance and press your seams open

Not sure how to do this, Please refer to the Video

We have posted on YouTube.

You can find it HERE

And don’t forget to Subscribe while you are

There that way you won’t miss out on any

Of my future videos.

Diamond Block

Step 1.

take 2 of your HST and 1 Diamond unit and assemble as pictured below

Step 2.

Take your 3 Daimnond Blocks, and assemble

as shown below.

Step 3.

take 2 of your HST and 1 Diamond unit and assemble as pictured below

Step 4. now assemble all your rows and pictured below in

the order following the arrow Directions.

Sew top strip to 2nd strip

See image

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Then sew the 2 you have just sewn together, to the next strip

to the 2 that you have just sewn.

nesting your seams

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Your block is now assembled and ready to be set aside

do not trim your block until we have all 12 finished
Make sure that you have ¼” around the block we will not lose any points when it
comes to final Assembly of your quilt. Set this block aside.