Disappearing Hour Glass

Having completed the Disappearing Pinwheel, it is now time to try this again placing the half square triangles in a different order.

In the Jenny Doan YouTube video, she started with 10 inch layer cakes and made 1/4-square triangles. I already had a bunch of turquoise blocks cut at 8 inches so that is what I used. Cutting is basically the same as the Disappearing Pinwheel.

According to Ms Doan, divide the width of your block by 3 and cut the strips in 3 equal sections ... which I did for the first blocks, but my finished blocks were 10 inches square and divided by 3 makes each cut at 3-1/4" & a bit. (Well, actually it makes it 3-1/3" but there is no 1/3 marking on the ruler)

So I flipped the outside -corner blocks and then turned the centre square. Here's a thing to remember when sewing everything back together ... make sure the little triangle points in the corner squares are facing out .... obviously I had a couple of seam ripping-out sessions.

These blocks look pretty good together .... but, the cutting measurement of dividing the block in three was annoying SO I changed my mind on the cuts and the pattern.

This time, I cut 1-1/2 inches from the centre seam (so the centre piece is 3 inches and the outside pieces are a wee bit larger.)

And I rearranged the pieces in a different order by turning every single cut piece!!

Outside corner squares were flipped so the little triangles faced the outer corners; the middle 4-piece square was rotated one turn .... and then I flipped the 4 narrow pieces (centres of outer edges) so those little triangles faced in.
VOILA!!

A small star pattern with a 4-square in the centre!! I think I like this better than the first blocks I was making above. 
Time to add a few more blocks.

One way to organize the blocks ....

And another way to organize the blocks.

Not sure which way I will choose. It looks like I will have to add another fabric to the mix ... I think I will need about 80 blocks in total to make a quilt top and there is not enough fabric in the two pieces I am currently using ..... and no, it does not mean a trip to the fabric store. I have lots of 1/2 and 1 and 2 metre pieces in my stash that I should be able to mix and match.