Quilt block · Eight-point · Intermediate
Spider Web quilt block
Eight wedges meet in the middle, each a small triangle and three strings, and a triangle in each corner squares it up. Set side by side, the strings make a web. Also called Spiderweb.
How it’s cut
No cutting list here. Our cutting can’t cut Spider Web yet: some of its pieces meet at angles it can’t put on the ruler, so there’s no list here rather than a wrong one. The drawing is exact. Its wedges sew like any block of wedges: each wedge’s pieces in order, then the wedges in pairs, then the halves.
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Questions
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Is it Spider Web or Spiderweb?
Both: you’ll see it written either way in books and patterns. It’s the same block, and a search for either finds it.
What size should I make it?
Its wedges and strips cut from strips with a 45° ruler on the ⅛″ marks at 10″ and 15″. At other sizes they’re cut from templates.
Can I paper piece it?
Spider Web’s wedges each sew in a straight line of seams, so quilters often piece them on papers, one wedge to a paper, then sew the wedges in pairs and halves.
Is it a good block for a beginner?
It’s an intermediate block: 36 pieces in 5 different shapes, pieces cut on the bias off the square grid and 25 points to match. Take it slowly and pin the points. We work the level out from the block’s own geometry, never by eye.