Setting Ideas

Pieced Border

Two plain borders, one 1" and one 6"

Three borders, pieced, 1", 6"

Three borders, pieced, 1", 6" with pinwheel blocks in corners

Three borders, pieced, 1", 6" with pinwheels on point in corners

QF Pieced Border

If you have been playing along with me you now have 12 blocks that want to be put into a quilt together.

They were designed to be joined directly - no sashing or setting blocks required.  However, if you would like to finish off the pinwheels on the edges of your quilt this is what you need to do.

Fabric requirements were included at the outset of this program.   You should have plenty of fabric in the pile you started with.  Just for kicks...this is what you need for this step.

Background fabric - 5/8 yard
Dark fabric - 3/8 yard
Light fabric - 3/8 yard

Using the directions listed in Elements for QF Corner Block - basic, make 32 corner blocks.

Cut 14, 4 1/2" blocks of background fabric.

Sew according to the diagram above.


It will look something like this.....

... only better.

Month 12 - Saw Blades

I have 14 kits left for the final installment of Frisco Quilt Guild's 2011/2012 Bock of the month program. 

Does anyone else see sesame seeds in this top?

If you would like to participate, let me know and I will pop a kit in the mail to you.

And the winner is......

Carol Bradley!

Carol won 14 finished blocks, 16 kits, about a yard of fabric and free quilting from Tops to Treasures.   (Yes, she is my mum.  No the draw wasn't rigged.)

Congratulations Carol!!  (a.k.a. the best mum ever)

Month 12 - June 2012 - Saw Blades

General description of block: This nine patch block is similar in construction to a Friendship Star (month 11) with two exceptions.  1) It turns in the opposite directions and 2) the points of the star are extended and bent creating a silhouette reminiscent of a saw blade.  It seemed the perfect pattern to end this series with...a tribute to the wonderful men we often create quilts for.

FQG - Your kit contains a rust solid and measuring tapes.  Use the solid for dark and the tapes for light.  Use your own fabric for the background and blade silhouettes - make sure the fabrics you select coordinate with the kit without blending in to it.

Cutting directions: (21 pieces)

• From dark -
•  cut 1, 5 1/4 inch square. Sub-cut this square diagonally into 4 small triangles
• From light -
• cut 1, 5 1/4 inch square. Sub-cut this square diagonally into 4 small triangles
• For Blade silhouette -
• cut 4, 5 1/4 inch squares. Sub-cut these into two triangles each, for a total of 8 large triangles.
• cut 1, 4 ½ inch square for center
• For background -
• cut 2, 5 1/4 inch squares. Sub-cut these into two triangle each, for a total of 4 large triangles.

Piecing directions:

Corners -

• Sew one dark and one light small triangle together to make large triangle.
• Being careful not to warp the triangles, iron seams open.
• Be careful to sew each set in the same order.
• The finished large triangles should be identical.
• Using the right angle to align the pieces, sew each two colored triangle to large triangle of Blade fabric.
• Trim excess seam allowance (this should be Blade fabric).
• Being careful not to warp the triangles, iron seams open.
• The finished squares should be identical.
• Trim to 4 ½ inch squares.
• Make 4

Center side square -

• sew one Blade triangle to one background triangle along the hypotenuse. (Long edge).
• Iron seam open.
• Trim to 4 ½ inch square.
• Make four.

Block -

row 1 - trisected square, solid side in; center side square, contrasting fabric #1 on the bottom; trisected square, solid side in.

row 2 - center side, contrasting fabric #1 to the right; solid contrasting #2 square; center side square, contrasting fabric #1 to the left.

row 3 - trisected square, solid side in; center side square, contrasting fabric #1 on the top; trisected square, solid side in.