Home Bound Sew Along - Pieced Borders & Finishing

Hi everyone!  Let's make the pieced borders and finish this project up.

Cutting Instructions

You can use whatever colors you want. For the sake of keeping it simple and very clear, cutting instructions will correspond to the colors shown in the quilt above. Cutting is for the pieced borders & binding. 

Background
(5) 2" x WOF strips

Pink
(5) 1 1/4" x WOF strips
(4) 2" squares
(4) 3 1/2" x 2" rectangles

Binding
1/2 yard

Backing
1 1/4 yards

Assembly

Make the checkerboard strips first.  Sew the pink 1 1/4” strips to the background 1 1/4” strips.  Cut into (168) 1 1/4” segments. 

Make (84) 4 patch units

Use 4 of these units to make the corners.  Sew the 4 patch unit to the pink 2” squares.  Then sew the pink rectangles to the units you just made.  Make 4 corners.

Sew the rest of the 4 patch units in units of 20.  Make 4

Remember when you work with pieced borders you must fit it in a bit more and coax the piece unit into square. This is why there are the 2” background strips.  These strips help stabilize the pieced border. 

Measure your quilt and cut the 2” background strip to that measurement.  Sew on the checkerboard.  Pinning will help this go much easier.  Pin the middle and then ends.  This will tell you how your checkerboard is working.  If it is slightly too big, sew the checkerboard next to your feed dogs.  If it is slightly too small, you may be able to coax it by pinning.  If is it a lot too small or large, check you seam allowances to see if some of them are off. 

Now sew on side borders. 

 For the top and bottom borders, you will sew the corners to ends of the borders and then sew on.

Quilt, bind, and enjoy! Binding is cut (5) 2 1/4” x WOF.

We hope you enjoyed this stash busting sew along as much as we did!

Home Bound Sew Along - Cornerstones, Sashing,

Hi everyone! It's an easy week.  Let's assemble the quilt center and inner borders

Cutting Instructions
You can use whatever colors you want. For the sake of keeping it simple and very clear, cutting instructions will correspond to the colors shown in the quilt above. Cutting is for sashing and cornerstones only.

Background

(12) 1 3/4" x 9 1/2" rectangles

Turquoise
(4) 1 3/4" squares
For Inner Borders, see Assembly section

Assembly
Sew the quilt top as shown. 

 Measure your quilt for your inner borders. Inner borders are cut  1 1/2” by the your measurement.  Using your measurements for your quilt will help it stay square.  Measure through the middle of the quilt top and cut accordingly.

Home Bound Sew Along - Block 3

Hi everyone, let's do Block 3!

 9 1/2"

You need to make 1 of these. 

Cutting Instructions
You can use whatever colors you want. For the sake of keeping it simple and very clear, cutting instructions will correspond to the colors shown in the block above. Cutting is for 1 block.

Background
(4) 2 1/2" cut once on the diagonal
(4) 1 3/8" x 2 1/8" rectangles
(4) 1 3/8" squares

Bright Pink
(1) 4 5/8" square cut corner to corner twice. You will use 1 of these triangles.
(1) 2 1/2" square cut once on the diagonal

Dark Pink
(1) 4 5/8" square cut corner to corner twice. You will use 1 of these triangles.
(1) 2 1/2" square cut once on the diagonal

Yellow
(1) 4 5/8" square cut corner to corner twice. You will use 1 of these triangles.
(1) 2 1/2" square cut once on the diagonal

Orange
(1) 4 5/8" square cut corner to corner twice. You will use 1 of these triangles.
(1) 2 1/2" square cut once on the diagonal

Gold
(4) 1 3/8" squares

Green
(8) 1 1/8" x 4 1/2" rectangles
(6) 1 3/8" squares cut once on the diagonal

Turquoise
(4) 1 1/8" x 4 1/2" rectangles
(4) 1 1/8" x 3 7/8" rectangles
(6) 1 3/8" squares cut once on the diagonal

Assembly

Sew the background  1 3/8” squares to the gold 1 3/8” squares.  Make 4.

Sew on the background 1 3/8” x 2 1/8” rectangles to the left side of units you just made.  Make 4.

Sew the background triangles cut from the 2 1/2” squares to each of the different color triangles cut from the 2 1/2” squares.  Make 1 of each color.

The sew on the square/rectangle units to each one.  Orange will be shown for the example.  You will need to sew all the colors the same way.

Sew the large color triangle to the small background triangle and the small color triangle.

Sew the tulip sections together.

Make green/turquoise half square triangle units.  Make 12.

Sew the triangle units to the end of green rectangles

Sew on the turquoise rectangles as shown

Sew the green triangle units as shown.  Then sew the block together.

Home Bound Sew Along - Block 2

Hi everyone, time for Block 2!

9 1/2"

You need to make 4 of these.

Cutting Instructions

You can use whatever colors you want. For the sake of keeping it simple and very clear, cutting instructions will correspond to the colors shown in the block above. Cutting is for 4 blocks. 

Background

(4) 4 3/8" x 9 1/2" rectangles

(4) 4 3/4" squares, cut once on the diagonal

(8) 1 3/4" x 3 1/8" rectangles

(4) 2 1/8" squares, cut once on the diagonal

Orange

(16) 2 1/8" squares, cut once on the diagonal

(16) 1 3/4" squares

Yellow

(24) 1 3/4" squares

Assembly

Sew the basket areas in rows.  Use the small triangles for the end of the rows. 

Sew the large background squares to the sides

Sew the bottom of the basket using the remaining orange and background pieces

Applique the handle. Sew the handle applique to the 4 3/8” x 9 1/2” rectangles.  If you do needle turn you must add your seam allowance.  Otherwise, use your favorite applique method 

IMPORTANT: Since this is on the blog, you have to improvise the size of the handle.  To do this, cut a piece of paper the size of the background rectangle, then trace the handle and see if it looks the right size.  This cannot be helped as all computers' aspect ratios are different.  

Assemble the block in rows. 

Home Bound Sew Along - Finished Block 1

Hi everyone!

Our blocks are done, how about yours?

Diane's version:

She went through her stash and found some precuts she wanted to use.  She is using Maypole by Moda, which is about 12 years old.  It's never to late to bust into fabrics you love!

Lauren's version:

Lauren found she had two cuts of the same fabric (the Tula Pink print in the center) and decided to build around it to use up that cut.  Sometimes you like a print so much you get it twice! 

How did yours turn out?  Post to our Facebook page, or in the comments below!

Home Bound Sew Along - Block 1

Hi everyone!  Let's do block 1.

9 1/2"

You need to make 4 of these.  

Cutting Instructions
You can use whatever colors you want.  For the sake of keeping it simple and very clear, cutting instructions will correspond to the colors shown in the block above. Cutting is for 4 blocks.

Background
(8) 3 7/8" squares - cut once on the diagonal
(32) 2 3/8" squares - cut once on the diagonal

Blue
(8) 3 7/8" squares - cut once on the diagonal

Green
(8) 2 3/8" squares - cut once on the diagonal

Yellow
(4) 2 5/8" squares

Pink
(32) 1 1/2" squares

Orange
(32) 1 1/2" squares

Assembly
Sew the (8) 3 7/8" background triangles to the (8) 3 7/8" "blue" triangles. Make 16 HST units

Sew the "green" triangles to the "yellow" squares to make a square in a square.  Make 4 square in a square units

Sew the "orange" squares to the "pink" squares to make four patches.  Make 16 four patch units

Assemble the block in rows:

Home Bound Sew Along! Project and Fabric Requirements

You saw it on Facebook first!  Here's a little sew along to keep us busy and quilting during the quarantine.

38" x 38"

Here's what you'll need: 

Background: 1 1/4 yards

Inner Border: 1/2 yard

Borders: 1/2 yard 

For your blocks, you'll need 1/4 yards and 1/8 yards - feel free to make it scrappy! 

Blocks will be out on Mondays.

We want to see your versions of this quilt! Post your progress on our Facebook page.