Make the same thought (not a Kaffe mystery quilt ) in an equation form... if you want to keep the head scratching going!! Jo

I have a design wall very similar to this idea., but it uses a roller shade with a really nice 'fabric' type flannel /vinyl (I'm guessing, but the blocks stick to it better than my other design walls which are just flannel. I can't sew without several design walls. ) Anyway, a roller shade would be even easier to 'put away', just roll up. One could just glue a flannel to the surface.

mathematically you should be calculating the hypotenuse of a triangle . a half square triangle is a 90 degree triangle (it has equal sized legs. So as I understand her placement of the half sq. triangle, it is the hypotenuse that should be 6.5 inches. the hypotenuse is 6.5 its legs are 4.6. therefore the square is a 4.6 inch square. divide the hypotenuse by the square root of 2. [note the square root of 2 is 1.41 [plus another 8 or so characters but I used 1.41]. So maybe she made an error.
I cut a 5 1/8 inch square (not 5 1/4") in half and it yielded a 7 1/8 " long leg (hypotenuse). I cut a 4 5/8 " square and got a long leg of 6.5 and a smidge.

I really like this design! It will be interesting to see what you put in the blank blocks

littlestitches wrote:
This video shows how:

Boy, does that look good!

I'm using just one Kaffe from my stash and yellow instead of white.

Can someone explain the math for adding half square triangles to our unfinished 6.5 blocks? I want to understand how Alex came up with 5 and 1/4 inches for the square to be cut diagonally.

How do you post the pictures? I have followed the instructions but it did not post. Thank you

Free spirit on Facebook has a series of Inspired By videos on Wednesdays @1 Eastern. The last 2 weeks have been Kaffe and Brandon talking about their latest book. They are scheduled to be live same time next Wednesday.

Today's explanation helped me get to the forum also. I've been looking and looking and SEW happy to have found the forum!

Fabrics are beautiful! I love the way you displayed them. Kaffe's Burano book just arrived yesterday! Several quilts in the book interest me! Where did you see him talking about Burano? I'd like to watch it!

Looks awesome!!

I know you do not care for inner borders, because it throws off the size. However for me I believe an inner border would bring all the blocks together visually. Then you could put the outside border on. I could even see the inner border being two colors to compliement what looks like on your quilt. top left color of red, bottom right blue. Just my thoughts. Too busy with not resting place.