While this spiral might look impossible, making it as a quilt block is actually quite easy! Today, Tes will show you how it goes together.
Impossible Spiral Quilt Block Guide
Video transcript:
Hi I’m Tes Scholtz with tulip square and today I’m going to show you how to make this quilt block
I call it the impossible spiral because it’s kind of an optical illusion type of spiral
it’s really easy to do and it’s fun this makes a 12 inch finished block so let’s hop over to the sewing machine and I’ll show you how easy it is to make
the first thing we’re going to do is take your white square and your darkest square and you’re going to sew them together
and I have that piece you’re going to sew the dark rectangle to the left side and medium dark rectangle to the right side
sew that right there
and I have this piece and we’re going to sew a larger medium dark rectangles to the top and the bottom of that
Sew this one right here
and sew this one right there
nice quarter inch seams everywhere as always
and I’m just pressing these towards the outside color we’re going to set that aside just for a second and work on these corners that we have
medium light and the medium dark
and you’re going to want to sew a diagonal line
right here make sure it’s going this way and not this way
We’re going to use that in just a second
And then we’re going to take the palest color I have two of these one is longer than the other
each one gets a white square the longest one you’re going to sew the diagonal line this way and on the shorter one you’re going to sew the diagonal line this way make sure you do this way on the short one and this way on the long one
now you can do like I’m doing and follow a line on my sewing machine
and you can find a link to this tape in the
description and there’s also another type of
quarter inch tape made
especially for that and I’ll put a link to that as well
You can either do that or you can take a ruler and draw a line and then follow that line it’s always helpful to start here as opposed to here because
your machine might try to chew up this corner but if you start here where there’s fabric
you’ll have better luck
now on all three of these pieces
I’m going to
trim off the outer triangle
leave a quarter inch seam allowance there
and then I’m just going to press these open
now we have these I don’t know why I said press them open because I pressed them all towards the corners so we’re going to set these two aside for a moment
and then take this one
we’re going to sew this one with the corner to the left side where the dark rectangle is
sew that right along there and then we’re going to sew the next medium light
rectangle to the opposite side right there
I will press those both to the outside now I have that you’re going to sew
the last piece of the
medium light color to the
top right along here so you have that at the top and then you’re going to sew
The shorter of the two
Light strips with the white corner to the bottom here with the white pointing out
press these out
Now you have that and you’re just going to add the final piece to the left side
the white pointing out again
sew that right there
And there is your finished block
there you have it there is your impossible spiral Quilt Block that was fun and easy wasn’t it so if you like this block and this video make sure you hit that like button and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the little bell if you want to be notified every time we put up a new video and don’t forget there’s a free pdf cutting guide that you can download in the description box and it has all of the sizes of pieces that you need to complete this block check out our website at tulipsquare.com and we will see you next week with a brand new video until then happy sewing