This block looks hard yet it is super easy to make with foundation piecing. It’s also a beginner foundation piecing bock.
If you’ve watched the video you will have seen how many quilt layouts you can make with this block. And that’s just a tiny fraction of what it’s possible.
How to make a Storm at sea block two ways
Watch a short video demonstrating how to make the simple and double storm at sea blocks:
Storm at sea block size
- Simple: 9 1/2 inches.
- Double: 12 1/2 inches.
Download the templates
- Storm at sea foundation piecing templates
- Storm at sea quilt pattern. It contains the foundation piecing pattern and a one page pattern with fabric needs and quilt diagram.
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My book Turnabout Patchwork
“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.
Buy individual chapters of my book
Now that my publisher is going out of business I have bought the rights to publish my book. Now you can download individual chapters. Each digital download is a bundle with 4 quilt patterns in it.
As well as the instructions and fabric needs to make the blocks you’ll find a section on quiltmaking basics at the end of the pattern that discusses:
- Tools
- Squaring up blocks
- Borders
- Assembly and quilting
- Binding
See all the quilts in the book in a real life project
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Sewn Up 
How can I get the foundation paper for this? I have no way to print the download. Thank you. Patricia
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That is a much clearer way for me to understand the piecing technique. Thanks for that!!! I have watched several different tutorials and this seems so much better — and the quilt itself is magnificent I am sure. I have definitely been challenged doing this kind of work. My brain just does not work right or something….lol
Question…..I’ve heard both ways of where you end the stitching for each piece. Have you ever started and stopped exactly at the black line, rather than going past it? And what was your opinion of that? Will it risk the blocks coming apart?
Thanks, as always Dottie
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Patricia. Do you have a library nearby where you can print the templates?
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Hi Dottie, I go past the black line all the way to the end as I would do if I wasn’t using paper.
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Great tutorial ! Once you understand how paper piecing works, As there are several steps in the process , it goes rather quickly.
Carol Doak has many patterns available as well as special
Paper to use in this process !!
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It’s a wonderful technique isn’t it?
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A great video. Thank you. I’m new to PP but I now feel I can use smaller pieces of fabric and have less wastage. Thank you.
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Absolutely. The better you get at PP the more efficient the use of fabric too.
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Teresa, I’ve wanted to make a Storm at Sea quilt for awhile. I just bought your two patterns and saved them to my iBooks. When I print from iBooks, I don’t have a choice to pick 100% printing, so a 1-inch box or even a 1-inch line is handy on the templates to make sure they’re accurately printing. It is probably not an issue for most people, but maybe for any future PP patterns, you might want to incorporate that extra safeguard. I’ve saved your video to watch soon. Thanks, Mary.
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I have the Carol Doak pattern and your’s is SEW much easier! Great job in the video also!!! Thank you so much 🙂
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Hi Sue. great to hear that!
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Great tip! Thank you. I’ll do that for the next pattern.
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When I print the pattern with no scaling, page 2 cuts off at the bottom. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you get around it?
Thanks!
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Fixed
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Fixed in Craftsy
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Brilliant tutorial, you make me more confident that I could try. I’m buying your layout/ pattern from Craftsy but the site seems to have problems today. Think all your lessons are great and love the way you present them..that music has infiltrated my head lol
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Thank you. It’s interesting how many people have commented on the music.
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