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Patchwork Quilts - Learn to Analyze Patchwork Quilt Blocks

By Janet Wickell, About.com

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One Patch Quilt Construction

Examples of one patch quilts: Thousand Pyramids & Grandmother's Flower Garden

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What's a One Patch Quilt?

One patch quilts are constructed with a single, repeating shape. Grandmother's Flower Garden, made from hexagons, is a one patch quilt. Thousand Pyramids and Tumbling Blocks are two more examples of one patch quilts.

Patches must sometimes be cut from partial segments of the single shape to fill in gaps around the edges of a one patch quilt. Doing that doesn't remove a quilt's one patch designation.

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