Moving from top to bottom, use the illustration on this page as a guide while assembling the Girl's Choice quilt block. Use a scant quarter-inch seam allowance throughout.
- Sew black triangles to two sides of a brown square as shown. When you place patches right sides together for sewing, align the 90-degree corners; the long tips of the triangles will extend past the opposite end of the square.
- Repeat to make a total of four identical brown / black units.
- Sew a red/blue unit to each side of a black/brown unit, matching seams carefully. Seam allowances will extend past the black/brown unit when positioned correctly. Take care to sew mirror image units to the black/brown unit as shown.
- Sew together the four green/background half-square triangle units, placing them in two rows as shown. Connect the rows and press. the new unit should measure 6-1/2" x 6-1/2".
- To make the block's top row, sew a 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" floral square (shown as light green) to each end of a unit made in step 3. Press seam allowances towards the squares.
- Repeat to make another identical unit for the bottom row.
- Sew a step 3 unit to each side of the green/background center unit, positioning blue triangles as shown. (To help align the units, you can stab a straight pin straight through the outer unit at the base of the brown square, then let it travel through the green/background center unit where the "x" is created by seams on the reverse; push the head of the pin to hold them together, then pin as usual and sew.)
- Press the seam allowance towards the green/background unit and repeat on the opposite side of the center.
- Sew the top and bottom rows to the center row, aligning all seams. Press. The quilt block should measure 12-1/2" x 12-1/2" square.
