Hen & Chicks Prairie Queen Block 12

This one is really just a cross between a Jacob's Ladder and a Shoofly.   I had never made it before, but after making both of those blocks, this one seemed like it should be the next to try.  

Start with your HST units and strip sets.  If you don't have enough length in a single strip, feel free to use two or more shorter strips.  As long as you have enough to get eight sub cuts then you are good.   

Because I made two shorter strip sets this time, I layered them before cutting the subunits.   Then they were ready to sew into four 4 patches.  Press the four patches

Now you should have 4 four patches, 4 HST units and one purple square.  I am not sure why there is a background square hanging out in the photo.  Just ignore that please.  

Now for the layout.  The HST units and the purple square make a shoofly block with each purple corner for the HST unit pointing to the center purple square.  The four patches do a rotational sort of thing, I had to keep referring back to the photo to make sure I got those oriented correctly.  

Now sew your nine patch together I pressed toward the four patches on this one as that seemed to be the way the seams wanted to go.