ORL Part 4

When Bonnie Hunter released Clue 4 of her current Mystery "On Ringo Lake" Friday, I knew I wouldn't have much time to devote to it.  But I wanted to experiment with an idea that came to me when I was writing about Mary's Triangles earlier last week.

Mary's Triangles

Clue 4 is exactly like the pieced half of one of Mary's Triangles.

Illustration by That Patchwork Place

Sew I have worked out a way to do Clue 4.  I started with two blue 2" squares and two brown rectangles, 2" x 3".  I stitched one of each together, right sides together.

Sew square to rectangle

I pressed toward the brown ...

Press toward brown

... then stitched the two units together with the blue squares on opposite ends.

Stitch two units together

I snipped the seam at the mid-point so that I could press toward the brown again.

Snip seam at mid-pint

Last, I cut the triangles, using my 6-1/2" Easy Angle Ruler, making sure to allow for a quarter-inch seam.

Cut pieced triangle

I repeated on the other side.

There's about 1/4" of waste so I think, technically, I could have cut my rectangle a bit smaller but when I tried 2-3/4" it came out too small and I didn't want to have to find 7/8" on my ruler!

It's not particularly quicker, but I feel like I get a more accurate triangle than cutting little brown triangles with the Easy Angle ruler and sewing them onto the square.

It does end up with one flat corner; I'm hoping that won't create a problem.  Nevertheless, I probably won't have time to do many before we find out where they will be used.