I’m looking forward to Saltwater by Tula Pink. Thanks for sending the link to your blog with my purchase from your shop. It was a fun thing to do for me ~ I made all my clothes through school till the 12th grade! I was 8 years old and it was my Dad who taught me to sew ~ he thought I ought to make my own clothing. If I ever figure out how to draw on the computer, I’ll share how I did it and what I found worked the best.īound with ‘Grate’ from the Lucky Penny range I quilted just in the white space with a meandering figure eight. Now, finish your quilt by basting, and quilting. Insert your row of extra blocks and reassemble. Fold your crossweave in thirds down the vertical length and make a clean cut. Sew them into a row alternating the direction 90 degrees for each block. Once your blocks are all laid out, sew them into rows It should look more like the top layout than the bottom (see the picture) Make sure that they appear random and make sure to keep your colors varied. Rotate each block 90 degrees from the previous block’s placement. If you keep a consistent scant 1/4″ seam allowance, this shouldn’t be too necessary. If you have any squares that are grossly out of square, just trim them up. You should end up with a minimum of 81 6″ squares. Sew a solid strip to each side of your bike path print like this: You will need 2 strips for each bike path strip. Each half yard piece should yield 11 pairs of 1.75″ strips. I also cut an extra strip of the pink, grey, and the chartreuse which made it so that I had enough pieces to do the back.Ĭut your solid into 3 18″x Width of fabric pieces. It is ok if the strip is more than 18″, but it needs to not be any less than 18″. Cut parallel to the selvedge so that each cut piece measures 3.5″x 18″. Start by pressing all of your bike path prints and your solid to prepare for cuttingĬut 3 3.5″ strips of each bike path print. Thread, Scissors and the usual assortment of Sewing tools.ġ.75 yards of Moda Crossweave in Natural For the backing So, here is my little tutorial for my pretty Crossed Paths quilt.Ī fat quarter bundle of bike path prints from Lucky Penny (9 total)
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