I had a difficult time with block two, deciding which way to press some of the seams. The green fabric is kind of shifty. I ended up hand sewing some of the y seams at the corners. Sewing the block into its surround was pretty easy, those instructions are great!

Vintage lady, did you read my blog? Step by step and a photo of the back side of the Diamond showing the sections. The link is in the first post in this topic.

You could also enlarge and print the line drawing of the block available in the Month 1 downloads.

I would like to see a line drawing of putting block 2 sections together. I keep going back to video for help. thank you

Thank you Annis...problem solved. Your block is awesome!!!

Thanks Barb! First time I've had a chance to print block 2 since Monday and it was successful. From habit I was using a different app; one I usually use and thought I had printed block 1 from last month, but apparently not so. Generally I don't use Adobe Acrobat Reader, but will know to use it for this BOM. Thanks to everyone that offered help!

I love what you did with the center! I'm borrowi g this idea!

Annis, what a beautiful block! Love your fabric selections.

Hi Hollyminer,
I used the suggestion from Barbara Black about going to Advanced in the print option of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. It worked great, so
I did not have to try your suggestion. But thank so much for offering help to another quilter. Quilters are the nicest people in the world.
HelenW.

Thank you Barbara,
Your Adobe Acrobat Reader work around for Sizzle Block 2 on mac computers worked for me. It took me a little time to find the word Advanced. When you open in Adobe, click on File, on the top menu bar, scroll down to Print at the bottom of the options,
when the box for printing comes up, the word advanced is on the first line right after the box that asks you what printer you are using. When Advanced opened a box,
the Image button was near the bottom of that screen box. It printed great. At first I was looking for the word Advanced on the tools for the Adobe acrobat reader not under print.
HelenW

Thank you Barbara!!! It totally works with the Print as image option and that makes perfect sense with what I have been seeing when I tried to print. This will help with a lot of problems I have been having! Yay TQS!!!!

PRINTING PROBLEMS?
A few people have mentioned they had printing problems with the Block 2 pattern.

People with much more technical knowledge than I have looked at this and suggest this as a way to fix printing issues for most:

Please try the following if you are having difficulty printing the pdfs:

Open the PDF using either Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader
In the Print dialog, click the Advanced button
In the Advanced dialog, check the Print As Image check box
Print to the printer of your choice

Another member, hollyminer, found she could print the PDF correctly in Preview mode rather than Acrobat. That's another possibility.

Technical issues are always irritating, they are for me. There are so many variables with computer systems/printers, it is hard to have one easy fix for everybody.

I hope this helps. And. as always, if you had a printing problem and solved it, by all means, please share what you did. It could help someone else.

Thanks,
Barbara

I really like the way you pieced the diamond with each of the three "leaves" as a whole piece. I already made block 2 and will make another with your method which requires redrafting the diamond blocks, but that doesn't look hard. I didn't like the way one of the leaves in the diamond is split. And also, I don't like the way the inner part of the wedge and the leaf near it do not match up. I may redraft the wedge also to fix that. Finally, the resulting block was "lumpy" with 8 areas in addition to the very center where a large number of pieces all come together. When I do this again, I'll be much more careful not to sew into the seam allowances, but to backstitch as I get to the seam so the bulky seam can fan out. Hope that works.

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Hi Hollyminer
Thank you for the offer to share you PDF for block 2, I hit the reply and it said I did not have permission to access that resource.
I would love to be able to print the block, so yes to the question. HelenW>>

Sorry Helen, but my plan was to save a PDF from Illustrator but there is definitely an issue with the pattern file. Try printing it from Preview, which worked for me, and let us know if that works.

<<Hi all. There seems to be a general problem printing PDF from Macs.>>

I am using an old Mac (mid 2007 topped out with El Cap 10.11.6)
I have PDFs set to open in Preview and I had no problem printing the file. Did those who are having an issue printing try using Preview rather than Acobat?

However, I do know there is a problem with the pattern page of the PDF provided for February = Block 2. I get an "operand" error when trying to open in Illustrator. I can open page 1 & 2 of the PDF. Only the pattern is a problem.

I don't know if this will help others, but trying Preview might work.