

Looking at the 2 pictures below, click on each unneeded line and press your keyboard Delete key to erase all unneeded lines. You’re now back on the Block worktable, looking at the “ Ocean Waves” block you made.

This simple lesson shows how easy it is to create new blocks by modifying an already existing block.ĬHALLENGE: Create a “ Hunter’s Star” block from your “ Ocean Waves” block The Symmetry tool cycles through 16 different designs as you CTRL+click repeatedly, before you see the starting design again. Click the Add to Sketchbook button to save any designs you like. CTRL+click, again and again, noticing different designs form. All blocks will rotate and/or flip at once. Hold down your keyboard CTRL key as you click (CTRL+click) any block in the quilt.But instead of using the Rotate tool, we’ll rotate all blocks at once using the Symmetry Tool. Use CTRL+ click to set your block into each of the 16 block spaces.Click the “ Ocean Waves” block you just made.Color your block with your choice of lights and darks, as shown.(If you mistakenly delete a line you still need, click EDIT > Undo immediately and the line will return.)You want to leave the two rows of triangles running diagonally across the block’s center, as shown. Looking at the picture as a guide, click each line not needed, to select the line.We’re going to erase a few lines, turning the “ Mosaic, No. Click the Edit button (on the bottom) to send the block down to the BLOCK worktable, so you can edit it.Click the View Sketchbook button > click the BLOCKS section > click the block to select it.(The company went out of business in 1970.) We drew them from a copy of an 1895 Lady’s Art Company block pattern catalog. Click Close to close the Library.NOTE: Just FYI – these “Antique Mosaic” blocks were among the first quilt block designs ever published.17” > click to select the block > click Add to Sketchbook. Scroll to find the block “ Mosaic, No.Click Libraries > Block Library > 01 Classic Pieced > Antique Mosaics.
#Ocean waves quilt pattern how to#
This “easy enough for beginners” lesson shows you how to make a new block out of an old block.
