Paper Pieced American Flags by CHRISTINE THRESH
Three Paper Pieced American Flags for you. Make as many of these little blocks as you want
and wear them proudly on shirts, vests, and tote bags. Pass them out to friends.
Make a whole quilt with the blocks or incorporate a flag block in a special
commemorative quilt.
The horizontal and vertical finished blocks are 8-inches by 4-1/2. The waving flag block
finished block is 7-inches by 6-inches. (Each paper foundation has a 1/4-inch seam allowance
all around before it is sewn to another block or bordered.)
NOTE: There are two foundation patterns for the straight flags.
One is for a flag displayed VERTICALLY and the other is for a flag displayed HORIZONTALLY.
They are not the same! The U.S. History
site's "flag etiquette page" tells us "When the flag is displayed flat...horizontally
or vertically, the Union (blue with stars) should be uppermost to the flag's own right."
The waving flag block is made on three separate foundation sections and
then the sections are sewn together.
Please read the Terms and Conditions for using this
pattern.
You will find the pattern and all directions on
Christine Thresh's website.
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