Hi I’m Jenny from the MSQC. Take a look at this quilt behind me. Isn’t this darling?
This is one of Natalie’s designs. And it’s so simple. It’s made using two blocks: the
four patch and this chevron block. It’s a quick and easy quilt to make and a lot of
fun. The trick is in the layout. So for this quilt what you’re going to need is 24 strips,
about a yard and a half of a background color. We used cream. And about a little over two
yards maybe 2 ⅛ of the blue or whatever color you choose and the stand out or pop
color on your chevron blocks. And that, all of that together will make a quilt about this
size which is about, oh, 55 by 70. It’s a big lap. It’s somewhere around there.
Don’t hold me to those measurements. But it’s a big lap quilt, not quite a twin.
Anyway to do this you’re going to need to make four patches. You can make them the scrappy
four patch way which will be in the link down below. Or you can make them out of strips
which is what I did. So I used strips to make this quilt. And to do a four patch doing that,
you just take two strip sets and sew them together. Cut them 2 ½ inches like I’ve
got here. You’re going to put them right sides together and you’re going to sew a
quarter of an inch and that’s going to give you your four patch right here like this.
Now there are places on this quilt like here, you can see there are four four patches but
it’s also a 16 patch block so if you want to do it that way, you can sew four strips
together and then cut them in 2 ½ inch strips like this and mix and match them to make 16
patches. So we’ve got our four four patches sewn together right here. You’re just going
to go ahead and sew those together and that takes care of that block. But you’ll see
on this quilt that you, there are places where they use, you know, two four patches together
and one single four patch also. So just keep a watch, you know, on the layout on how it
goes.
The other block is made using two 4 ½ by 8 ½ pieces of cream. And I’m going to cut
those right now. So we’ll cut that 4 ½ by 8 ½. So you’ll have two blocks like
this and let me make sure these are exactly right. A little bit longer than I need. I’ll
straighten up that edge. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and a half.
And when I’m cutting out these blocks what I like to do is cut one 8 ½ inch strip and
then sub cut it into pieces. Your cutting goes a lot faster if you do that. The other
thing you need for your corners is you need 4 ½ inch blocks. So they’re the same size.
We’re going to iron them in half to get our diagonal sewing line. And when you make
these blocks you’re going to need two of them. Let me see if I can get these apart
here, there we go. And one set of your corners is going to go one direction like this. And
the other set is going to go the other way. So they’ll go this way. So you’ll have
two blocks that are opposite. And I have one made here already. I don’t know which side
this one is. This one is this side so I need this side here. There we go. So this is the
block you’re, you’re working to achieve. Now when I put these together what I did was
I pressed my, my line down the middle. And then I sewed on it and then I came in about
a half an inch and sewed again because this is a big piece you’re cutting off. And so
you’ll have that other little piece, it will already be a half square triangle and
you can save that for some other project.
So then what you need to do is you need to take these two pieces, and you’ll see, notice
on the quilt behind me that we’ve made this block right here. So you’re going to put
this piece here in the center like this. And you’ll add this block around it. And another
one around it this way. Oops I mean this way. I’ve got this completely upside down. There
you go. Alright there we are. And see how it makes those peaks appear as it comes out
directly there. It’s my little puzzle I’m putting together. See how that’s happening
now. And it’s making that, that awesome block here where this stands out and it borders
itself. It’s a great quilt. Two easy blocks. And we hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial
from the MSQC.