When I was in Peterborough on Friday visiting a friend, she took me down to her quilting studio and showed me what she was working on. Recently she participated in a guild workshop. They did a technique where you make a block and cut it up to make different sample blocks depending on how you moved and rotate the individually cut pieces.
One of the blocks was this disappearing hour glass block. This is so similar to a block that I have listed as a (QW), that I decided to take a picture to compare. It looked the same or similar, but different and I couldn't figure out why. I took a picture of the instructions as well, for when I am ready to make them.
When I got home from the workshop, I searched through my posts, with the "(QW)" in the search bar of my blog and found the block that I had saved to make in future. The post is called Finished quilting the HHQG quilt from Mar 18/2019.
After examining the two blocks, I realized the difference between them is just the rotation of the centre four patch. The one I want to do rotates it to get a slightly different centre star.
The one good thing that came about by seeing this block, was that now I have the instructions and I now know what the finished size would be, if I use 5" charm squares. The blocks would finish at 7" in a quilt. So my conclusion is that I can use my two identical charm packs to make this, however I likely won't. The blocks would be too small and fussy with those tiny little triangles in the corner.
If I were to make this one, I think I would start off by using some chunks of scraps and cut them into 8" squares. At 8" squares you could even use fat quarters and get four squares out of each. Hhmmm...that is something to ponder.... Using up lesser liked fat quarters and cutting them down to make this block may work. They would be then again, cut up smaller while making this block.... Things to think about.
Take care everyone.
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