Blue Varigated Quilt

Item # 49810889P38
Intermediate Varies
Approximately 38”x50”
 
SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
  • Cotton quilt fabric
  • 1/6 yd each of six prints ranging from light to dark
  • 1 ¾ yd white for background and binding
  • 1 ½ yd for backing
  • Crib size batting
  • Masking or painter’s tape
  • Rotary cutter, 6”x24” ruler and mat
  • Curved quilters safety pins
  • Basic sewing supplies
  • Invisible thread
  • Iron and pressing surface
  • Sewing machine
 
DIRECTIONS:
Note ¼” seams throughout
  1. From six prints cut two strips of each 2 ½”xWOF.
  2. Cut one strip of each print 2 ½”x21” and 2 ½”x22”.
  3. Cut the other strip of each print 2 ½”x19” and 2 ½”x24”.
  4. From white background cut sixteen 2 ½”xWOF strips.
  5. Cut twelve of the sixteen white strips into four pieces each 2 ½”x11”.
  6. Sew a white 2 ½”x11” strip to the end of each of the print strips.  Press the seam allowances toward the middle.
  7. On the work surface mark two parallel lines of masking tape with a 38” space between the two lines. 
  8. On the taped work surface lay out the strips perpendicular to the tape lines starting with two of the lightest print then two of the next lightest print then pairs of each until the darkest is reached.  The darkest is the middle and only two of the four dark strips will be used.  From that point continuing on with the pattern work back from darkest to lightest.  The printed strips are different lengths and should be varied in the arrangement of strips.  Vary their placement from side to side to achieve a staggered look to the design of the print fabrics that are now going down through the middle of the quilt top.   Where the ends stick out beyond the 38” tape trim the ends off.   The length of the design strips will all be 38” long.
  9. Sew the strips together as arranged.  Sew two of the remaining four white strips at each end of the pattern.
  10. Press the seam allowances all in one direction.
  11. Cut the backing fabric and batting about 2” wider all around than the quilt top.
  12. Layer the backing face down, batting and quilt top face up.  Use the safety pins to pin “baste” the layers together.  Be generous with the number of pins to assure the layers don’t shift when quilting.
  13. With invisible thread on top, stitch in the ditch along each of the long seam lines.
  14. Remove the pins and trim the quilt top to square it up. 
  15. Prepare bias binding cutting 2 ¾” bias strips of the white fabric.  Bind the quilt.

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