Directional fabric

[Spiff]

So, when I bought my fabric I really did not think about it being directional. And of course both that I bought were directional and would not look right if they weren't all laying the same direction. It took a little bit of thought but it easily works. Here are some helpful hints:

Fabric 1: the middle blocks. These are the blocks that form the flower petal (the one with the white squares forming the point). Divide your 80 5" squares into 4 stacks with all stacks facing the same direction (for mine it had snowmen, etc on them so I made sure they were all facing up, not upside down or sideways). Place a piece of paper on stack one saying "top", then one "bottom" one "right" and one "left". When you sew the "top" stack, make sure the point points to the top, the bottom the point points to the bottom, etc. That way, in all four of those petals the fabric will be laying in the same direction.

Fabric 2 - the corner blocks. Divide your 80 blocks into 2 stacks. One one stack place the white square on the right upper and left lower corner. For the other stack place the white in the left upper and the right lower corner. This will keep those all facing the same direction.

Hope that makes sense. If your fabric is not directional you can just chain piece away......

[kderr]

Spiff aka:Master quilter,
Thank you for all the great information. This will help if someone has picked up directional fabric.