Quilt Pattern

This is my OMG for February.  I would like to finish all of the blocks this month.  I may be able to get the sashing in too.

With all of the hiking and driving and shopping, apron making and general travel stuff, you'd think there wouldn't be time to work on a quilt.  I still crave quilting and I am inspired when I visit fabric shops.  After I visit a shop, I have to pull out my quilt project and sew a few seams. I am working on another quilt pattern for my 10 inch squares. For this pattern, I chose the Citrus Fruit Palette half stack from Robert Kaufman.  Half Stacks have 24 ten inch square pieces.  There are two of each color in the stack.  I really love these colors with the white background.

You can see I have blocks in all stages of completion including uncut triangles 

This is a half square triangle pattern.

Patience is a virtue and you become very virtuous when making this quilt.  I pressed all of my seams open to reduce the bulk on the back.  Pressing seams open takes time.

I would like to finish this quilt by the end of February but it's hard to be inside sewing when it's so warm and lovely outside.  I am creating the pattern for this quilt and will post the finished top when the pattern is ready.  I haven't named this quilt yet-I'm terrible at naming quilts.  Any suggestions?

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Jewel Finish

     A few years ago, I put together a few quilt patterns, printed them and sold them at our local fabric shop.  The fabric shop closed so I decided to start a little home business and I sell fabric out of my home. I stock 10 inch squares, and people constantly ask what they can do with them.  My 2.5 inch strips sell like hotcakes but the 10 inch squares do not.  I started playing with pattern ideas for 10 inch squares because I like not being confined to 2.5 inch strips.  I put this quilt together using Kaffe Fassett's Collective Classics-Peacock 10 inch square collection.  I decided to make a pattern for it and publish it in PDF format.  So,  I'm finished with my first PDF published pattern.  The pattern is for the Jewel Quilt and you can find the pattern HERE.  

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How Many Quilts Can You Make with This Block?

Don't you just love the Spring Robins Collection by Clothworks?  I love the greens, blues and purples in this collection and of course the adorable robins are truly the best.



I teach quilt classes and recently I had to come up with a simple pattern for a mystery quilt.  I decided to use this block because it is so versatile.  The finished block can be arranged in a few different ways to make different quilt top designs.



I'd love to share the block pattern with you.

You will need a light, a medium and a dark fabric.  Here are the fabric amounts and cutting instructions to make a 36" by 36" lap quilt.

You will need:
Light Fabric - 1-1/4 Yards
Medium - 3/4 Yards
Dark - 2 Yards

Cut:
Light
(5) 4-78" by WOF strips, Sub cut into (36) 4-7/8" squares then cut on the diagonal to make (72) triangles
Medium
(9) 2.5 X WOF strips
Dark
(5) 4-78" by WOF strips, Sub cut into (36) 4-7/8" squares then cut on the diagonal to make (72) triangles
(9) 2.5 X WOF strips

Sew your medium and dark strips together and cut into (144) 2.5" X 4.5" rectangles

Sew light half square triangles to dark half square triangles.  You should have 72 blocks.

Sew your half square triangle blocks to your 4 square blocks as shown.  You will have 36 of each of the two arrangements.

Sew these together to make 36 blocks.

You can arrange your blocks in different ways.  Lay the blocks out on your design wall to figure out what layout you prefer.

I used this layout to make this quilt a few years ago.

A few more...

I chose the 'Jacob's Ladder' layout for my Spring Robins blocks.

This will be my next OMG.  I do want to finish it.

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Jelly Roll Quilt Tutorial

Two things happened yesterday....I finished my Cherry Fizz quilt top and we had our first snow of the season, termination dust.  

Last week I wrote a post about a mistake block I made.  I made a quilt top using this block and I put together a little tutorial.   Please note that this pattern has been tested by me only.  I wrote the notes as I was putting this together.  If you find a mistake, please let me know.

A full jelly roll will give you 84 blocks so you could make a quilt that is 12 rows with 7 blocks in each row which would measure 56" wide by 96" long without borders.  If you make two equal sized quilts, you can make a quilt that has 7 rows with 6 blocks in each row, which will measure 48" by 56" without borders.  I decided to make two quilts with this jelly roll because I didn't like the way all of the fabrics in this jelly roll looked in this quilt.  I also really like to make lap quilts.

If you want to make this quilt, this is what you need for one quilt that measures 56" X 96":  1 Jelly Roll and 3 yards of background fabric-for a quilt without borders.  If you want to put borders on the quilt, add the amount you need for the border to your materials.

Cutting:  
     Cut each of your jelly roll strips into (4) 6.5" rectangles and (4) 2.5" squares.

     Cut your background fabric into (11) 2.5" strips and (11) 6.5" strips. 

Sewing:
Sew all of your 2.5" jelly roll squares to your 6.5" background strips and all of your 6.5" rectangles to your 2.5" background strips.

Press the seam toward the jelly roll fabrics.

Cut each of your strips into 2.5" X 8.5" strips as shown.

You will have 168 sets of 8.5 inch strips.

Sew all of these strips together to make a 4.5" X 8.5" rectangle as shown. Be sure the background 2.5" square is on the top of the strip and sew on the right side of the strip. 

You will have a  sets that look like this.  

Sew two sets together to make a block.  Here are a couple of ideas for how to sew the sets together.  

Press all of the seams in one direction.  It doesn't matter which direction.

When you sew your blocks together, you can turn your block whichever way the seams from each set of blocks butt together.    

 This is what I have left from this Jelly Roll.  I have another block in mind.  Stay tuned.

You can purchase this quilt flimsy from my Etsy shop.

Find fabrics for this quilt in my Run 'n Stitch Shop HERE

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Charm Square Table Topper Tutorial

Aren't pre-cuts just the bomb!  I love to use pre-cuts because I love to make scrappy things.  With Pre-cuts, all the colors match and most of the cutting is done.  I put together this little pattern/tutorial for use with 5" squares to make this little table topper. You can use Moda Charm Squares or you can use fabric from your stash.   Isn't it adorable.

I had some leftover Charm Squares from a prior project.  I didn't have quite enough for the quilt so I had to cut a few from other fabric.  All fabrics were from the same line so the colors matched perfectly.

 This pattern makes a table topper that's 23" square

 For this pattern you will need:
(29) 5" squares
1/3 yard of coordinating fabric
Batting and backing for a 23" square

Step 1 

Set aside 12 squares to be used for the middle border. 

 Step 2

Cutting

From the coordinating fabric (1/3 yard): (WOF means width of fabric)

Cut (4) 2-1/2" X WOF strips.  Cross cut these fabrics into (2) 2-1/2" X 18-1/2" strips and (2) 2-1/2" X 22-1/2" WOF strips

Cut (1) 1" X WOF strip.  Cross cut into (2) 1" X 8-1/2" strips and (2) 1" X 9-1/2" strips.

Cut (17) 5" squares in half so you have (34) 2-1/2" X 5" rectangles.

Cut (2) 5" X 2-1/2" rectangles into (4) 2-1/2" square. Set aside.

You will sew rectangles together and you want scrappy, so I just flipped one stack over and began sewing the top rectangle from one stack to the bottom rectangle of the other stack.

                           

Step 3
Chain stitch your rectangles and press toward the darkest fabric.

Step 4

Place one set of 4-1/2" X 5" blocks on top of another set of another 4-1/2" X 5" block, right sides together, butting the seam. Cut into (2) 2-1/2 X 4-1/2" rectangles. Do this with (4) pairs of 4-1/2" X 5" blocks or (8) blocks.



From each pair, you will have 4 rectangles

Step 5
Sew 4 sets together to make (4) 4 patch units.  Sew the remaining together to make (4) strips of 4 squares.

Step 6

Sew two (2) 4 patch blocks together.

Sew these blocks together to make a 16 block center piece.

Step 7

Cut the remaining 4-1/2" X 5" blocks into 2-1/2" X 5" rectangle units.

Step 8

Using the (4) 4 square strips from Step 5 and these remaining rectangle units, sew end to end so you have (2) strips with 10 and (2) strips with (12) 2-1/2" squares.  Using the 2-1/2" squares you 'set aside' in step 2, add one square to each strip so you have (2) strips with 11 squares and (2) strips with 13 squares.

Step 9

Sew the 2-1/2" X 8-1/2" strips to opposites sides of the center piece.

Then sew the 2-1/2" X 9-1/2" strips to the other sides of the center piece.

Step 10

Sew your 5" square blocks into (2) sets of 4 and (2) sets of 2. Press toward the dark fabric.

  

Step 11

Sew both of the 2 block units to opposite ends of the center unit.

Sew the 4 block units to the other ends of the center unit.

Step 12

Sew the (2) 2-1/2 X 18-1/2" inner border strips to opposite sides of the piece.

Then sew the (2) 2-1/2" X 22-1/2" strips to the other ends of the piece.

Step 13

Next, sew the 11 square border strip to two sides of the piece.

Finally, sew the 13 square boarder strip to the other two sides of the piece.

Step 14 (can't stop with 13 steps;)

Stand back and admire your lovely little table topper and think about how you will quilt it.

This is another version of this pattern finished.  I used a full Charm Pack for this one so I had enough of the squares left to cut into 2-1/2" X 5" rectangles, which I sewed together to make a scrappy binding

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