Hi. I’m Hillary with Missouri Star Quilt Company, and I have a great project for you
today. This quilt behind me, is one that’s been around for a…quite awhile…The fabric
is new, but the pattern was designed a long time ago by my sister. She actually made a
quilt that’s maybe 3 feet by 3 feet, and it’s been hanging in my kitchen for many
years. I love it! The fabric that we chose was Cream and Sugar
by Ampersand Design Studios for Windham Fabrics. We just used one layer cake for our whole
project. That’s one of my favorite things about it…it really only takes one, and you
have a brand new quilt. So you have your layer cake, and then for your borders, you’re
going to need around a ½ hard for the inner STOP border, we used a white for that. And
then for your outer border, you’re going to need around a yard and ¾.
To make this block, I’ve chosen two; one’s a bright green and one’s more of a white.
So, those two will be paired up. And you can do that through your whole layer cake; just
go through and find that ones that you think look really good together. And then you’ve
got your sets already done, and there’s no work at the end.
So, I’ve got my pieces. I can… I’m going to cut them both at the same time. I probably
wouldn’t cut more than two at a time though because your fabrics get a little shifty and
you don’t want to end up with a miscut that we really can’t fix at that point, so…
So, we’re going to start by cutting two inches off the side, through both layers,
so we end up with our two strips here. Let’s just set those aside. For our next strip,
is going to be 3 ½ inches (counting, that’s 1, 2, 3 and ½) I’ll go ahead and trim that
one. There we go.
Now, this piece that we just cut is our..star piece. This is going to turn into our constrasting
centers on all of these. Okay, so we’re going to cut two inches off
the end. There. I’ll just set that over. And another two inches.Okay. Cut that.
And now we’re going to lay it out. These pieces right here are our special contrasting
centers, so I’m going to set this one aside because I’m working with the green block.
And this is our contrasting middle. I’m going to set it right here. Get our
greens and stack the other ones on either side.
And take our two inch strip that we cut very first, and set that here. And this is how
your block is going to go together. It’s really a super simple, easy block to
put together. It highlights, some-when-a-really big prints well. So, you know we have some
of those favorite lines and fabrics with really big designs on them, and sometimes you just
don’t know what to do with them. This Is a great pattern for that.
So, first seams that we’re going to do, we’re going to add these ends onto our middle
contrasting piece. Let’s go over to the sewing machine.
You do want to watch that you make sure you’re quarter inch seams…are nice and tight. Because
we are going to lose just a little bit of length on this pattern, and we want it to
stay as nice and square as possible. So, keep your quarter inches really n..really good
and tight. Here we go. Let’s go ahead and press this
open. So we can have a nice piece to work with. Okay
Now, here’s what we’ve done. Okay, isn’t that nice? It’s coming together really well.
We’ve ..but you’ll notice, after you line it up on one side that it’s going to be
a little bit short here. That’s okay.We’re going to trim these pieces when we’re through,
and that’s the way the block comes together. You don’t need to worry about stretching
it, or trying, thinking that something’s gone wrong. That really is the way the pattern
goes. So, let’s go ahead and add these sides here.
I really like this pattern..this whole line is a lot of fun with its greens and pinks.
Even the brown really makes all of them pop nicely. It’s kind of….fun colors to do
our tea and sugar with. There we go. There’s that one. And..we’re
going to add our last side on, and that’ll be our last seam for this block.
Here we go. Good. Watching that quarter inch. Make sure we’re keeping our distances all
even. Okay, we’re going to press that one out
again. Well, this time. Here we go. That’s our cute little tea cup block.
Okay, here’s our little ends that are sticking out on there. Let’s go ahead and trim those.
You’re just going to line up your ruler along the seams here and back here along the
short edge of our center block. Let’s just trim those little pieces off. And that..is
what your finished block looks like. Okay, so now that we’ve got our finished
block, this is how we laid it out. I have several pieces here that we’re going to
work with. You start with one block, and your center block is what we use to guide our positioning.
It’s going to start face..up and down, and then we’re going to move it so that it kind
of rotates around the block. And it’ll come down to the bottom. And then it’ll go on
the side again. And then, let’s pull this one so there’s a little variety, and it’ll
come up to the top.going to See here, it’s on the side, the bottom,
the opposite side, and the top. When you start your next row, you’re going to lay it out
exactly the same way, except you’re going to start from this second spot. And we’re
just going to take…since their contrasting block is at the bottom, we’re going to move
it down here, so it starts with the bottom position. And then we just start moving around
so, you take it to the side-let’s not do that one cause it matches completely. There
we go. To the side. And then to the top. And it looks like I’ve got a lot of teacups
today. And that one’s going to come over here to the other side.
And that way, your pattern has a little bit of organization to it as it goes. It helps
you know where they need to be. It’s a really fun little pattern, and I
hope you enjoy it in your house as much as I have in mine.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.