2015 Block of the Month - February Block

2015 Block of the Month - February Block

Can you believe that January is already over? It doesn't seem like its time already for another BOM! But the Calender says it is so who am I to argue? Here is a sneak peak at this months BOM!

This block may look intimidating but I promise its easier than it looks. To start with you need 3 fabrics. You need to cut eight 4 1/2 inch squares for your light background fabric, four 4 1/2 inch squares from your fabric that you would like to be the points, and one 4 1/2 inch square for your center fabric.

We are going to start by taking one of your light squares and one of your point squares.

Place these fabrics together with right sides together.

Find the center point on one side of the square and mark it.

Then draw a line up to the corner as shown in the picture below. You need to make sure to draw the line to the corner shown below so that you make the right points.

Do this three more times so you have a total of 4 sets.

Sew down each of the lines that you just drew, As you can see in the picture I chain pieced them which is perfectly ok. Once you have sewn all four just clip the threads in between the blocks.

The taking one of your blocks place your 1/4 inch mark on the sew line and trim off the extra fabric as shown below.

Then press your block open. Be sure to set the seam before pressing open.

Trim square down to 4 1/2 inches as shown in the photo below.

Repeat this with your other three sets of squares.

Now arrange your squares as shown below and sew them into strip sets and sew together to make a block.

Congrats you have just finished February's BOM.