“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.
“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.
Today’s tutorial is for the 3 parts to a Lucy Boston Patchwork of the crosses quilt.
The quilt uses just 2 different EPP shapes, a honeycomb hexagon and a square. Just follow the video for how many shapes you need for each piece and how to assemble them together.
This quilt takes time to complete and I’m still assembling my blocks. I’ll post the final quilt when I finish it which may take a while.
I’m making my quilt with plain fabrics and gingham mostly (see fabric details below) but the quilter is beautiful when with fussy cutting.
“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.
Today I’m resharing some very popular shortcuts: a quarter squares shortcut, and an accurate way to make half square triangles in bulk and a disappearing pinwheel block and quilt.
Check the projects you can make with all 3 shortcuts below.
Learn these 3 quilting shortcuts and turn them into quilts
French Garden quilt
French Garden is an easy quilt pattern suitable for confident beginners.
Finished block size: the basic unit size is 3” x 3”.
Skill level: Confident beginner.
Quilting technique: Traditionally pieced.
The basic units are assembled into 13 larger blocks of different sizes.
The pattern includes yardage needs, quick cutting instructions, assembly instructions, lots of diagrams and a quilt design colouring page.
Bonus content: video tutorials.
Note:
Download the pattern to your computer before you print it.
Ensure you are printing at 100%.
Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat to print.
In a breeze quilt pattern
Quilt size: 36″ x 42″
Finished block size: 6 1/2″
Number of blocks: 20 arranged as 4 x 5
Fabric needs
9 Fat Quarters – see details on the fabric collections I used below.
7/8 yard for the border
To make the quilt, mix the fat quarters and make 20 blocks following the video tutorial.
Arrange in 5 rows of 4 blocks each.
Border
From the width of fabric cut:
2 borders 5 1/2″ x 33″
2 borders 5 1/2″ x 36 1/2″
Sew the narrower borders to the sides first and the top and bottom borders next.
Disappearing pinwheel quilt
This sampler has 12 blocks in it, all of them made from a pinwheel block cut into a 9-patch block an rearranged to obtain 11 different blocks. More variations are possible.
Quilt size
56 inches x 42 inches
Block size
The block is 10 1/4 inch square.
Materials for one disappearing pinwheel block
Two 9 3/8 inch squares in contrasting fabrics
Notes
The initial 4 half square triangles (HST) obtained need to be trimmed to 6 inch squares.
A piece of backing fabric the same size as the block (I used half square triangles for some blocks to make a star)
A piece of batting 1 inch larger than the block
One finished block
For the sashing
One strip of sashing fabric 1 1/8 inch x the length of the block side
1 strip of sashing fabric 1 3/4 inch x the length of the block side
Disappearing pinwheel sampler quilt
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.
Garden fence is a simple quilt very easy to make. Check the different variations at the end of the video using different fabrics.
As a Michael Miller brand Ambassador for 2020 I made Colour chart, a very simple quilt using just 2 of their 2 1/2″ pre-cut strips with Michael Miller’s beautiful Marble collection jelly rolls and Cotton couture white jelly rolls.
If you would like to make a full quilt with a similar block, check out Hole in the wall.
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.
