Millinery: Telescopic puzzle block

My assistant, Candy McClernan, pulled off an eBay coup on Thanksgiving Day when she won an auction for a telescopic puzzle block for only $50. If you watch hatblock auctions on there ever, you know that puzzle blocks of all styles usually end well into the $200-$300 range. I'd be absolutely green with envy if she weren't, you know, my assistant and friend, and willing to let me block on it!

So, want to see how it went? These kinds of blocks are exercises in spatial visualization, because the hat that they make looks different from the block itself.

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