Okay, this may be more like a loose guideline rather than a tutorial. I originally created this block when I was at
the Stash Bash last April. Sharon (A
Prairie Sunrise) was unable to come to the retreat due to being late in her
pregnancy and so a baby quilt was planned and block contributions made using
the Ruby fabric line. Since there were
only scraps to work with but plenty of white, I wanted to figure out a unique
block with big impact. I opted for the
slightly off center heart and I love the way it looks. It’s super sweet to see it in the full quilt
sent off to Sharon and her beautiful girl, Ruby Verna. The ladies who contributed the rest of the
blocks knocked it out of the park, too, don’t you think? See the quilt details
here from Chris (Freckle Mama).
So, here we go. Finished block
(without borders) comes out to 12.5” (your choice)
Choose your background fabric and the fabric for your heart (2 colors). Roughly you can an FQ for your background
will be more than enough and you can use 2 jelly roll strips for the colors.
From your background cut:
1, 2” x 13” strip
1, 3 ½” x 13” strip
2, 6 ½” x 1 ½” strip
1, 5 ½” x 1 ½” strip
1, 5” x 1 ½” strip
4, 4 ½” x 1 ½” strip
1, 4” x 1 ½” strip
2, 3” x 1 ½” strip
4, 2 ½” x 1 ½” strip
4, 2” x 1 ½” strip
4, 3 ½” x 1 ½” strip
14, 1 7/8” squares
From EACH color cut:
7, 1 7/8” squares
2, 1 ½” squares
Take 1 white 1 7/8” square and put it right sides together with 1 color
1 7/8”. On the back of the color square,
draw a diagonal line from corner to corner.
Take to the sewing machine and sew 1/4” away from the line on both sides
of the line. Cut on the diagonal line. Press open and trim wings. Repeat for
all the white and color squares creating 28 half square triangle (HST) blocks. (see all steps here)
Lay out your block in accordance with the diagram below.
You can play with the HST layouts if you want. The picture above is what I went with but the ones below are alternative ideas. You can see, in the last photo, an alternating option I used for the original block.
You can play with the HST layouts if you want. The picture above is what I went with but the ones below are alternative ideas. You can see, in the last photo, an alternating option I used for the original block.
Trim to 12 ½” or 12 ¼” and voila! Your block is done.
I decided to make this into a pillow cover so I added 2 borders. At this point, I basted the block to batting
using a basting spray and quilted it. Then, I used Sew Mama Sew’s Tutorial to
create a cover for an 18” pillow form.
Check out the quilting! Did this on my domestic and it's pretty even for a first time. I've never been able to and always had to put these on the frame but now I feel good about small projects getting done on the domestic, too. Yay for small accomplishments.(she really wants to lay on the pillow)
Cheers!
Beck
3 comments:
Turned out really cute, thanks for the tut!!
Cute! Love it as a pillow.
Let the baby lay on the pillow. It needs to be tested right? ;o)
Thanks for sharing
so cute! thanks for sharing
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