Corner Triangles and Setting Triangles....

My Log Cabin On Point - Critter Community Quilt is pieced and I am hand quilting....but I thought {in case you want to make a log cabin on point of your own} I should post the formula for figuring up those pesky corner triangles and setting triangles....

For the Corner Triangles...I needed to cut a square in half once on the diagonal.  This way my stretchy bias would be on the long edge which was sewn to the 4 corners of my quilt...

to figure out what size you should make the parent square {which will be cut once on the diagonal} follow this formula:

  

1. Take your finished block size X 1.41

2. Divide that answer by 2....and ADD 0.875".....then round up to the nearest 1/8th. inch to find the parent block size

3.  Take the parent square and cut it in half once diagonally to yield two corner triangles.  You will need two parent squares cut once on the diagonal to yield four corner triangles.

I had a 10" finished block size.....so my parent square was 8"

   

Now, along the sides I needed to add Setting Triangles.  For Setting Triangles I needed to take a square and cut it twice diagonally.  This gave me four triangles with the straight of grain along the long edge {which would be my outside edge}. 

To figure the size for the parent square in the Setting Triangles....follow this formula:

1. Take the finished block size X 1.41 and round this answer up to the nearest 1/8"

2. To the  answer in step 1....ADD  1.25 inches....this is the size of your parent square for Setting Triangles

3. Cut a square this size and then cut the square in half twice diagonally.

So for my 10" finished block size....I needed a parent square for my Setting Triangles that was 15 3/8 inches.

Hope this helps if you decide to do a quilt on point!

For today...I am going to try to finish quilting this baby and maybe **fingers crossed** get it bound!

Here is a little peek at the back....I am lovin' the back!!!

Have a great Wednesday!

mary