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SQUARE IN A SQUARE QUILT FREE PATTERN
NEWLETTER MAY 2011
Well, wasn't that a lovely wedding ceremony on Friday? I feel that I should have produced something like a double wedding ring quilt for this month's project, but I've gone for something far less ambitious. Usually for these projects I try to show you things that you can make using the basics without having to buy any extras, but occasionally I find a quilting accessory that makes such a difference that it is well worth telling you about.
This square in a square quilt was made using a Creative Grids template ruler called Quarter Square Triangle and the quilt was made in a fraction of the time that it would have taken me without the ruler. The final quilt size is 50" square.
I began by cutting twenty 2.1/2" strips across the width of the fabric in each of two different fabrics. It makes quite a dramatic quilt if you use two fabrics which contrast sharply, but of course it could also be used with a jelly roll. Sew the strips together in pairs as shown on the left. Press the strips with the seam towards the dark fabric. Take two pairs of strips and place them with right sides together and the light fabric facing the dark fabric. Sew the pairs of strips together down the sides to create a tube. Keep going with the rest of the strips until you have 10 tubes.
Take a tube of strips and fold it in half so that the two short edges are together. Place the quarter square triangle ruler along the folded strip. Line up the black broken line at the bottom of the triangle with the stitch line on your fabric and line up the right hand edge of the ruler just inside the selvedges of the fabric strips - if you haven't already trimmed them. Taking care to keep your fingers from the edges, cut along the triangles of the ruler.
I find that I can cut three triangles as shown on the left. Then I unfold the rest of the tube of the fabric and cut one more triangle as shown on the right. As the tube is folded, that means that I get seven triangles from each tube of fabric.
At the top of each triangle there are a few stitches from the top line of stitching. Unpick these few stitches and your triangle will unfold to make a 6" square. Sew all these squares together in pairs as shown on the right.
Here's the video:
Sew the pairs together to make a square as shown on the left. With most quilts I would then recommend sewing together squares across each row and then sewing the rows together. However for this quilt I found it best to sew together four blocks of four squares and then sew the blocks together. That way you have shorter seams to deal with until the very last seam.
The quilt that I made used 16 blocks which meant that I had six of the triangles left over as well as the offcuts - more leftover fabric than I would normally like - so I am still thinking about how to use this.
At this stage the quilt top measures 44" square. For the quilt border I added a 2" strip of the dark fabric across the top and bottom (44") of the quilt and then down each side (47"), followed by a 2" strip of light fabric across the top and bottom (47") and then down each side (50"). That way I could use the dark fabric for the quilt binding. Full details for layering and binding the quilt can be found in the
baby quilt pattern.
I have kept the border simple so the entire quilt is extremely quick to make but a non quilter will think you laboured for months on this quilt!
Best Wishes
Rose
Return to home page how to quilt
rose@ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
NEWLETTER MAY 2011
Well, wasn't that a lovely wedding ceremony on Friday? I feel that I should have produced something like a double wedding ring quilt for this month's project, but I've gone for something far less ambitious. Usually for these projects I try to show you things that you can make using the basics without having to buy any extras, but occasionally I find a quilting accessory that makes such a difference that it is well worth telling you about.
This square in a square quilt was made using a Creative Grids template ruler called Quarter Square Triangle and the quilt was made in a fraction of the time that it would have taken me without the ruler. The final quilt size is 50" square.
I began by cutting twenty 2.1/2" strips across the width of the fabric in each of two different fabrics. It makes quite a dramatic quilt if you use two fabrics which contrast sharply, but of course it could also be used with a jelly roll. Sew the strips together in pairs as shown on the left. Press the strips with the seam towards the dark fabric. Take two pairs of strips and place them with right sides together and the light fabric facing the dark fabric. Sew the pairs of strips together down the sides to create a tube. Keep going with the rest of the strips until you have 10 tubes.
Take a tube of strips and fold it in half so that the two short edges are together. Place the quarter square triangle ruler along the folded strip. Line up the black broken line at the bottom of the triangle with the stitch line on your fabric and line up the right hand edge of the ruler just inside the selvedges of the fabric strips - if you haven't already trimmed them. Taking care to keep your fingers from the edges, cut along the triangles of the ruler.
I find that I can cut three triangles as shown on the left. Then I unfold the rest of the tube of the fabric and cut one more triangle as shown on the right. As the tube is folded, that means that I get seven triangles from each tube of fabric.
At the top of each triangle there are a few stitches from the top line of stitching. Unpick these few stitches and your triangle will unfold to make a 6" square. Sew all these squares together in pairs as shown on the right.
Here's the video:
Sew the pairs together to make a square as shown on the left. With most quilts I would then recommend sewing together squares across each row and then sewing the rows together. However for this quilt I found it best to sew together four blocks of four squares and then sew the blocks together. That way you have shorter seams to deal with until the very last seam.
The quilt that I made used 16 blocks which meant that I had six of the triangles left over as well as the offcuts - more leftover fabric than I would normally like - so I am still thinking about how to use this.
At this stage the quilt top measures 44" square. For the quilt border I added a 2" strip of the dark fabric across the top and bottom (44") of the quilt and then down each side (47"), followed by a 2" strip of light fabric across the top and bottom (47") and then down each side (50"). That way I could use the dark fabric for the quilt binding. Full details for layering and binding the quilt can be found in the
baby quilt pattern.
I have kept the border simple so the entire quilt is extremely quick to make but a non quilter will think you laboured for months on this quilt!
Best Wishes
Rose
Return to home page how to quilt
rose@ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk