Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday.

This week’s block is called Granny’s Choice and not it is not the same as the Grandmother’s Choice block that I made a few weeks ago. So many blocks with very similar names it is hard to keep them all straight.

I decided to go with an achromatic colour scheme for this block and I used a 12 inch block this time. I didn’t feel like working with tiny little pieces this week and figured the larger pieces would go together faster plus use up more fabric.

Pick and Cut Fabrics

Three fabrics are needed for this block. The fabrics need to be of different values in order for the block design to work.  One of the triangle fabrics needs to be light, the other dark and the remaining fabric a medium value.  Mine was quite easy seeing how I picked black, grey and white with a grey squiggle.

Cutting Instructions for 12 Inch Block

Black Fabric (Dark Value)

• 1 – 11″ square cut on the diagonal twice – this will make 4 triangles –  you will need 2 of these triangles to make one block
• 2 – 2 ¼″ x 8″  rectangles
• 2 – 2 ¼″ squares

Grey Fabric (Medium Value)

• 2 – 2 ¼″ x 8″  rectangles
• 2 – 2 ¼″ squares

White Fabric (Light Value)

• 1 – 11″ square cut on the diagonal twice – this will make 4 triangles –  you will need 2 of these triangles to make one block

Pieces cut and ready to be sewn for one 12 inch block.

Making the Block

Sew the black 2 ¼″ squares to one end of the grey rectangles and sew the grey 2 ¼″ squares to one end of the black rectangles.

Sew the squares to the rectangles.

Press the seam towards the black fabric in each unit.

Press seams towards black fabric.

Lay out the pieces as below.

Placement of pieces.

Pair up the black rectangle/grey square unit with the black triangle. Place the the grey square at the right angle corner of the black triangle with RS together.  Sew down the long side. Make two. Note:  the rectangle pieces will be longer than needed and will be trimmed off at the end.

Sew black rectangle unit to black triangle

Press the seam towards the black triangle.

Press seam towards black triangle.

Pair up the grey rectangle/black square unit with the white triangle. Place the the black square at the right angle corner of the white triangle with RS together. Sew down the long side. Make two.

Pair up grey rectangle unit with white triangle.

Press the seam towards the grey rectangle.

Press the seam towards the rectangle.

Match up a black triangle unit with a white triangle unit.  Sew down the side with the rectangles and squares units.  Make two.

Pair up a black and white triangle unit.

Press the seam towards the black rectangle/triangle unit.

Press the seam towards the black triangle unit.

Match up the two units just made taking care to match the seams.  I recommend pinning as the edges are on the bias and can stretch out of shape very easily. For more detailed instructions on pinning check out my blog post all about pinning.

Pin the two units together.

Sew together and press the seam in either direction.

Block will be larger than needed with the rectangles hanging over the corners.

Square up the block to 12 ½″.  It will be a bit larger so will need to be trimmed.  Check out this post for help with squaring up a block.

Square up block to 12 ½″.

And there you have it – another great block.

One 12 inch block.

Four Blocks Together

Happy Quilting!