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WILLIAM MORRIS QUILT TUTORIAL
Last week I spent a wonderful day at the Fabric Freedom warehouse. Picture it: a warehouse the size of a football field filled with fabric! It was like birthday and Christmas all rolled into one. Naturally I spent far more than I should have done, but the really exciting part of the day was that the (rather dishy) owner of Fabric Freedom has given me permission to make up the free patterns from their site. I've started with the William Morris quilt but I have simplified the design for us.
If you haven't come across William Morris before, he was a 19th century textile designer, artist and writer and had a huge influence on the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
The basic quilt blocks are made from half square triangles and stars and the design comes from the placement and colour. I have used five fabrics from Fabric Freedom's William Morris range.
You will need the following:
Red fabric: two strips 8.7/8" across the width of fabric for half square triangle units, five strips 2.7/8" for flying geese units, seven strips 1.1/2" for first border, two strips 2.1/2" for second border.
Brown fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, five strips 2.7/8" for flying geese, two strips 2.1/2" for second border.
White fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, two strips 5.1/4" for flying geese, two strips 2.1/2" for second border, four strips 2.1/2" for star corners.
Light brown fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, two strips 5.1/4" for flying geese, four strips 2.1/2" for star corners.
Square in star: two strips 4.1/2".
Binding: seven strips 2.1/2".
The finished quilt size is 70" square.
I'll begin with the half square triangle because it's the simplest. Take two 8.7/8" squares and lay them with right sides together. Mark a line along the diagonal and sew a seam 1/4" either side of the marked line. Cut along the marked line and you will have two squares each made of a half square triangle of each colour. You will need sixteen of these in brown/cream and sixteen in red/white.
The star is made from a central square with a flying geese unit on each edge. I'll put the link for the flying geese video at the bottom of the page, but just to run through it now: mark a line along the diagonal of the 2.7/8" squares in the dark colours (brown and red). With right sides together, put two of these squares on a 5.1/4" square of the light fabric with the diagonal lines on the small squares running along the diagonal of the large square. Trim one corner of each of the small squares so that they don't overlap and sew seams 1/4" either side of the marked line.
Fold up the two squares that you have just sewn just to keep them out of the way and add two more squares in the emply corners of the large square. Trim the corners in the middle again and sew a seam 1/4" either side of the marked line. The large square now has two seams along each diagonal. Cut along the two diagonals between the seam lines and you will have four flying geese units. Trust me, it will be clear when you've seen the video.
Sew one flying geese unit to the top and to the bottom of the central square. Sew a 2.1/2" square in the light fabric to either end of two more flying geese units and sew these to the sides of the square. That completes the star quilt block. You will need sixteen of these in brown/cream and sixteen in red/white.
So now it's just a case of sewing them all together. Sew each star to a half square triangle, keeping the reds and browns separate. Then rotate half of these pairs of blocks and sew them together so that each star is on the right in the top row and on the left in the second row.
These four patches sewn together are the basic quilt blocks. Sew them together in pairs with a red next to a brown, then sew the pairs together in fours making sure that you continue alternating the red and brown squares. This will give you four rows of four quilt blocks. Sew the rows together making sure that if one row starts with a red block then the one underneath starts with a brown block.
Here's the video for the William Morris quilt. You'll be delighted to hear that I've finally worked out how to reduce the resolution on the video so that it should play better without constantly stopping to reload!
I've followed the Fabric Freedom pattern in using two borders. The first one is made using 1.1/2" strips of red fabric. Sew a 64.1/2" strip to the top and bottom of the quilt and then sew 66.1/2" strips to the two sides.
For the second border cut 2.1/2" squares in white and 9.1/2" by 2.1/2" strips in red and brown. Make up four strips using a coloured strip alternating with a white square. For two of them use six coloured strips and five white squares so that there is a coloured strip at each end. Sew these to the top and bottom of the quilt. For the other two use six coloured strips and seven white squares so that there is a white square at each end. Sew these to the sides of the quilt top.
I hope you like the quilt as much as I do. Do take a look at the Fabric Freedom project page and let me know which other quilts you'd like to see on these pages.
The flying geese video that I promised:
Return to free quilt patterns
Visit my blog
rose@ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
Last week I spent a wonderful day at the Fabric Freedom warehouse. Picture it: a warehouse the size of a football field filled with fabric! It was like birthday and Christmas all rolled into one. Naturally I spent far more than I should have done, but the really exciting part of the day was that the (rather dishy) owner of Fabric Freedom has given me permission to make up the free patterns from their site. I've started with the William Morris quilt but I have simplified the design for us.
If you haven't come across William Morris before, he was a 19th century textile designer, artist and writer and had a huge influence on the English Arts and Crafts Movement.
The basic quilt blocks are made from half square triangles and stars and the design comes from the placement and colour. I have used five fabrics from Fabric Freedom's William Morris range.
You will need the following:
Red fabric: two strips 8.7/8" across the width of fabric for half square triangle units, five strips 2.7/8" for flying geese units, seven strips 1.1/2" for first border, two strips 2.1/2" for second border.
Brown fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, five strips 2.7/8" for flying geese, two strips 2.1/2" for second border.
White fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, two strips 5.1/4" for flying geese, two strips 2.1/2" for second border, four strips 2.1/2" for star corners.
Light brown fabric: two strips 8.7/8" for half square triangles, two strips 5.1/4" for flying geese, four strips 2.1/2" for star corners.
Square in star: two strips 4.1/2".
Binding: seven strips 2.1/2".
The finished quilt size is 70" square.
I'll begin with the half square triangle because it's the simplest. Take two 8.7/8" squares and lay them with right sides together. Mark a line along the diagonal and sew a seam 1/4" either side of the marked line. Cut along the marked line and you will have two squares each made of a half square triangle of each colour. You will need sixteen of these in brown/cream and sixteen in red/white.
The star is made from a central square with a flying geese unit on each edge. I'll put the link for the flying geese video at the bottom of the page, but just to run through it now: mark a line along the diagonal of the 2.7/8" squares in the dark colours (brown and red). With right sides together, put two of these squares on a 5.1/4" square of the light fabric with the diagonal lines on the small squares running along the diagonal of the large square. Trim one corner of each of the small squares so that they don't overlap and sew seams 1/4" either side of the marked line.
Fold up the two squares that you have just sewn just to keep them out of the way and add two more squares in the emply corners of the large square. Trim the corners in the middle again and sew a seam 1/4" either side of the marked line. The large square now has two seams along each diagonal. Cut along the two diagonals between the seam lines and you will have four flying geese units. Trust me, it will be clear when you've seen the video.
Sew one flying geese unit to the top and to the bottom of the central square. Sew a 2.1/2" square in the light fabric to either end of two more flying geese units and sew these to the sides of the square. That completes the star quilt block. You will need sixteen of these in brown/cream and sixteen in red/white.So now it's just a case of sewing them all together. Sew each star to a half square triangle, keeping the reds and browns separate. Then rotate half of these pairs of blocks and sew them together so that each star is on the right in the top row and on the left in the second row.
These four patches sewn together are the basic quilt blocks. Sew them together in pairs with a red next to a brown, then sew the pairs together in fours making sure that you continue alternating the red and brown squares. This will give you four rows of four quilt blocks. Sew the rows together making sure that if one row starts with a red block then the one underneath starts with a brown block.
Here's the video for the William Morris quilt. You'll be delighted to hear that I've finally worked out how to reduce the resolution on the video so that it should play better without constantly stopping to reload!
I've followed the Fabric Freedom pattern in using two borders. The first one is made using 1.1/2" strips of red fabric. Sew a 64.1/2" strip to the top and bottom of the quilt and then sew 66.1/2" strips to the two sides.
For the second border cut 2.1/2" squares in white and 9.1/2" by 2.1/2" strips in red and brown. Make up four strips using a coloured strip alternating with a white square. For two of them use six coloured strips and five white squares so that there is a coloured strip at each end. Sew these to the top and bottom of the quilt. For the other two use six coloured strips and seven white squares so that there is a white square at each end. Sew these to the sides of the quilt top.
I hope you like the quilt as much as I do. Do take a look at the Fabric Freedom project page and let me know which other quilts you'd like to see on these pages.
The flying geese video that I promised:
Return to free quilt patterns
Visit my blog
rose@ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk
www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk