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My One Hour Challenge – Part 2 plus a Giveaway

Updated: Apr 26, 2021

It’s curious to me that sometimes I have to schedule a play date in my sewing room in order for things to get done. I guess this is just a sign of busy times. Fortunately it’s not always like this!

I’m just now getting back to playing with the charm packs and floral fabrics that I started in my last post. In case you missed it, here’s a quick recap and details of my process.

I started with a charm pack (5″ squares) of solid Kona Cotton fabrics by Robert Kaufman. I separated the solid fabrics and then paired them with some floral fabrics from my collection.


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I set aside one of the six solid fabrics from each group. Then used my new 20-degree wedge ruler to cut the remaining solid squares into fabric wedges. I got 2 fabric wedges from each square. There was a bit remaining that I decided not to use in this project.

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After cutting, there were 10 fabric wedges from each group. I arranged nine and then sewed them together to make half of a circle.


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The next step is to make a straight cut along the edge of the three inner fabric wedges. I placed the completed half circle on my cutting mat and used a ruler to determine the distance from the straight, left-hand edge of the circle to the outer edges of the three inner fabric wedges.


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Cut the excess.


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Turn the fabric on the mat and make two additional cuts, as shown.


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It will now look like this.


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Next, I straightened the top edge even with the lowest point of the curve.


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I cut the squares that were set aside earlier, as shown in the photo.


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These are sewn to the bottom corners, and then trimmed to size.