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The two triangles on this page are the basis of a "double header" number with
no additional charge for admission! In two clever ways it proves what can be
done with a pair of triangles, one, half the area of the other, by using white
and two colors.
In Dutchman's Puzzle two smaller triangles add to a larger about like the
cutting chart patterns are placed, and this twice done forms a square, 1/4 of
the finished block. The darker always points into the lighter and thus the
Puzzle is solved into a 12-inch block.
Windmill is quite a different arrangement, even more simple which makes a
block 8 1/2 inches square.
A windmill quilt 85 inches square takes 100 8 1/2-inch blocks, 50 of them plain
and 50 pieced. Allow 4 3/4 yards of white, 1 yard light blue and 1 3/4 yards dark
blue, or 7 1/2 yards of material.
Dutchman's Puzzle, on the upper left, can be made of red print, yellow print
and unbleached muslin, making the 4 large center triangles red print, the four
large outer triangles yellow print and the 16 small triangles of the
unbleached. There will be 28 pieced blocks and 28 plain blocks, making a quilt
84 by 96 inches, or 7 blocks wide by 8 blocks long. A quilt of this size
requires 1 1/4 yards red print, 1 1/4 yards yellow print and 6 1/2 yards
unbleached muslin.
Six-inch Feather Circle or the Thistle would be right size for the Windmill
block, while the Snowflakes or a 10-inch Feather Circle would fit the Dutchman's Puzzle.
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