We’re still with blocks beginning with H this week and we have chosen two very different ones – Hour Glass and Hummingbird.
But who knew just how many blocks were called Hour Glass at some point in their history?! And that is without looking at ones such as Spinning Hour Glass, or Double Hour Glass, or Uncle Sam’s Hour Glass, or . . . . . So we whittled it down to just four very similar blocks which (with our usual ingenuity and imagination) we have labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4. You can download a pdf with rotary cutting instructions and templates as well as blocks to colour for all four blocks.
Hour Glass 1looks like this in EQ’s original greyscale and colours
Then we move onto Hour Glass 2 – still with EQ’s original colourings
Hour Glass 3 looks like this
And finally Hour Glass 4.
As you can see they are all very similar in that they consist of squares and half-square-triangles. Hummingbird however has very different shaped triangles – ones we have christened Ice Cream Cones. Download the templates and foundation piecing units as well as a block to colour. This is EQ’s original colouring –
How would you colour your blocks? What do these blocks look like if you put four together?
Next week we start to explore blocks beginning with I.
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