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You should have several baggies of fabric, cut into strips. This week we’ll do some more cutting and sewing.
Take the bag for Fabric One, Strip #2 (the strips are 57/8” wide). Draw a line in pencil every 57/8” across the strip on the fabric’s wrong side to make squares 57/8”. Draw a diagonal line across the square. Take the bag for Fabric Two and place the Fabric One, Strip #2 and Fabric Two strips right sides together. Sew 1/4” on each side of the diagonal line. The strip should look like this when you are done. You need two sets of the squares per block, or a total of 30 for a 15 block quilt. (Note: When I was making my quilt, I sewed 1/4” from the diagonal line to one end, back stitched, sewed across the line to where the next 1/4” seam should be, back stitched again, and sewed the second 1/4” seam. You’ll cut the sewing between the seams when you cut the piece apart, and you’ll trim half as many beginning/ending threads this way. If you draw your diagonals in a “V”, you could sew the outside legs of the “V” and then do the inside legs without removing the fabric from the needle.)
Cut apart on the pencil lines forming the
square and between the sewing lines. Your block should look like
this:
Get the baggie marked Fabric Three. These should be strips 21/2” wide. You need to cut the strip into 21/2” squares. You will need four squares per block, or a total of 60 for a 15 block quilt. Save any leftover strips for sashing. Put the squares back into the baggie marked Fabric Three.
See you next week!