After whipping out the little windmill yesterday, I decided to try something more complicated. This is my first time for this block, and it went reasonably well.
Here is how it went together:
8x8 Plane block
Overall plan: have a base of 2 x 2 squares. Add corner bits as
needed for diagonal seams, as in Snowball block. Instructions are based upon
creating sub-unit squares and joining them to make the whole block. No inside corner
seams are used.
The diagram of the block.
Cut 1 each: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in background and in plane. (This will produce 2 Half Square Triangle (HST) squares.)
Mark diagonals on lighter fabric, place on darker fabric with right sides together, and
sew 1/4" away on each side of the drawn line for 2 half square triangles. Cut the sewn triangles apart along the diagonal line. Press them and trim "ears." (These will be the airplane propeller)
Cut 1: 1.5 x 2.5 piece in background color.
Cut 2: 1.5 square pieces in background color.
Cut 2: 1.5 square pieces of airplane.
For the tail tip, join 1 plane 1.5 square and 1 background
1.5 square to make a rectangle. Press. Join unit to 1.5 x 2.5
background piece. Press. Square up.
For the nose tip, join 1 HST and 1 background 1.5 square. Press.
Join 1 HST and 1 plane 1.5 square. (Note that the plane-colored triangle points away from the plane-colored square.) Press. Lay out the rectangles so 1 HST + background will be on
top and 1 plane + HST will be on bottom. Join to form a square with the HST pieces
diagonally across from each other. (See the diagram.) The color of the propeller should be on the
upper part of the HST. Press. Square up.
For tail wings and rear fuselage:
Cut 3: 2.5 x 2.5 pieces in plane.
Cut 6: 1.5 x 1.5 pieces in background. Sew background pieces
to opposite corners of plane pieces.
Join tail tip to one wing piece. Join other wing piece to
rear fuselage piece. Press all. Join wing-fuselage piece to tail-wing piece.
Press. Square up.
For front wings and front fuselage:
Cut 4: 2.5 x 2.5 pieces in background.
Cut 8: 1.5 x 1.5 pieces in plane.
Sew plane colored pieces to two “top” corners of background
pieces. The diagonal seams should meet in the middle of the background piece
edge. Press and square up.
Cut 3: 2.5 x 2.5 pieces of plane.
Cut 4: 1.5 x 1.5 pieces of background. As with the rear
fuselage, sew the background pieces onto opposite corners of 2 plane pieces.
(Third plane piece is fine as it is.)
Join 1 mostly-background piece to one mostly-plane piece.
Top right plane colored corner of larger background piece should adjoin the top
left corner of larger plane colored piece, creating right wingtip. Press and
square up.
Cut 2: 2.5 x 4.5 pieces in background color.
Join the right-wing rectangle just created to one of the
4.5 x 2.5 background pieces. Press and square up.
Join this square to the tail square. Press and square up.
Repeat this step in mirrorwise fashion: Join left wingtip
piece to background piece with top left plane colored corner of background
piece adjacent to bottom right corner of wingtip piece. Press and square up.
Join unit to second 4.5 x 2.5 background piece, press, and square up.
Join third plane colored square (the one with no odd colored
corners) to background piece with the plane colored corners adjacent to the
unadorned square. Press and square up.
Join nose section to last background piece with plane
colored corner square adjacent to plane colored triangle and HST adjacent to
unadorned part of background square. Press and square up.
Join front fuselage section to nose tip section. Unadorned
plane colored square is on left bottom of new square. Press and square up.
Join this square to left wing square. Press and square up.
Join with tail section rectangle. Press and square up.
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