Today’s quilt block is a different optical illusion. Similar to the Impossible Spiral Quilt Block, but with a very different look. Get the cutting guide, watch the video, and see!
Optical Illusion 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 optical illusion Quilt Block super easy and fun to make and it looks really great all done up this is a 12 inch finished block when it’s in your project it’s 12 inches so hop over to the sewing machine with me and I’ll show you how to make it
okay to start with you’re going to take your white square and your medium dark square
these are the two biggest squares three and a half inches
put those together and you’re going to sew them
diagonally right down the middle
You can either draw a line there or you can follow a line on your sewing machine like I have here
and that’s just a thin striping tape and I’ll have a link to that in the description if you’re interested we also
have a link to use that they now make a special
quarter inch striping tape made just for that so we’ll link to that too
now because I’m just making one we’re going to
cut this off
before you cut it you could do another seam there and then cut it between the two seams and then you would have a half square triangle
spare piece for other projects I have a lot of those
If you’re making a whole bunch of these blocks you would start with a larger square with start with a larger Square draw a line down the middle
sew on either side of the line and then cut it in half and then you would have two half Square triangles and not waste so much fabric
Since I’m just making the one it’s fine
now we have that and you’re going to take your palest color and your medium light
Palest color goes at the bottom
Medium light goes at the top we have the white at the bottom dark at the top
we’re just going to sew these on with a nice quarter inch seam
I’m just going to press those both to the outside
going to take your lightest
the medium light and the medium dark fabric
And on the medium light you’re going to put a medium dark Square and sew it diagonally across this way
On the dark you’re going to put the medium light Square and sew across this way which is the same
You have them both this way they’re going to go from lower left to upper right
now we’re going to cut these two corners off
then we’re going to press them
if you wanted to save fabric if you’re making a whole bunch of these blocks again you could make this piece as half square triangles and then have this as a separate piece that’s always an option but I kind of like how nice this looked as one piece
so we’re just going to cut off these corners
and you can always sew here and then cut off this corner
and save these corners
for a little matching project that goes with this
I do that a lot
I’m going to press both of these towards the corner and I will be right back
so there’s the first piece we made
and we’re going to put the
lighter color on this side and the darker color on this side so we’re going to match up
medium dark shade there and the medium light shade here okay
sew this quarter inch seam there and sew this with a nice quarter inch seam there
again I’m just going to press that towards the outside I’ve been calling these colors wrong this is the palest color and the medium light color
because this is the medium dark color here and then this is the darkest color
It’s hard to keep track when you have four shades of one color plus a white it all makes sense when you’re putting it together
now we’re going to put
sew these ones on sew this one to the top right along there
sew this one to the bottom right along there now I’m going to press these to the outside and
set this piece aside for a moment and we’re going to add the corners to our last two pieces and take the darkest color and the white the white square
and you’re going to do it the same way from the bottom left to upper right on both of these bottom left upper right nice diagonal line right there and we’re going to cut these corners off just because this is such a dark color against the white I’m going to press these
toward the strip instead of toward the corner and I have that I’m going to put the dark strip that we just made on the left side with the dark on the bottom and the remaining one on the right side always with the white pointing away from the corner
let’s sew that right along there
sew this one right along there
there is your finished block how easy was that
and that is how you make your optical illusion Quilt Block I hope you enjoyed that if you did please hit the like button and don’t forget to subscribe to our Channel and hit that little bell if you want to be notified every time we put up a new video
All of the measurements for the pieces you need for this block are in a free pdf you can download there’s a link right there in the description and don’t forget to check out our website at tulipsquare.com and we’ll see you next week with a brand new video and until then happy sewing