A couple of days ago on my personal facebook page, I posted a design I had happened to see on an antique geometric website.
The name of the block intrigued me, Castor and Pollux.
Two ‘actual stars’ known by western society as the two brightest stars in the constellation of Gemini, which have some Greek Mythological roots.
I then decided to tackle EQ7 again, downloading the Castor and Pollux picture from the website above:
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and superimposing this picture onto a 10 by 10 grid.
Tackling EasyDraw again, I came up with a very pink variation of the block, and gave myself something that I could paper piece (in theory).
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My final version of this block actually has more lines than this (from what I can see here, it’s not putting all the lines in to show the paper piecing version.
Here is my printout of the block, black and white (no color ink)
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And since each block is four of the same ‘sub blocks’, here is a sub block printout with notation.
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And I thought of a quilt pattern for this block.
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So 4 subblocks in a block, and 16 blocks in a quilt. This is definitely a Long Term Project!
If I decide to do it.
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