I studied this block before I began to cut the fabric. I
determined that all the sixteen interior spots where corners met could be
swirl-pressed (thus avoiding nasty lumps of fabric) if I ironed all the seams
in the proper directions. Eight of the half-square triangles had to be pressed
toward the dark side, and the remaining four pressed toward the light. I could
see all four quarter-square triangles had to be pressed clockwise. That meant I
couldn’t use the Eleanor Burns Quilt-in-a-Day method, which results in two
clockwise sub-blocks and two running counterclockwise. I was so hyper-focused
on getting all those pesky little corners to come out right, I couldn’t see the
big picture until I finished the whole block and stopped to take this scary photo:
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