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.
French Garden is an easy quilt pattern suitable for confident beginners.
The quilt is traditionally pieced.
Have a look at the quilt in this short video:
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:
To make the quilt, mix the fat quarters and make 20 blocks following the video tutorial.
Arrange in 5 rows of 4 blocks each.
From the width of fabric cut:
Sew the narrower borders to the sides first and the top and bottom borders next.
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.
56 inches x 42 inches
The block is 10 1/4 inch square.
The initial 4 half square triangles (HST) obtained need to be trimmed to 6 inch squares.
Make 12 blocks:
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 1
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 2
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 3
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 4
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 5
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 6
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 7
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 8
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 9
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 10
Disappearing pinwheel block – variation 11 – make 2 blocks in different colours.
Add a border to each block.
For each block cut in white fabric:
And sew as shown on the picture below.
“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.
If you make any of my tutorials this is how you can share your pictures:
I’ve released a new pattern for a small baby size quilt: 40″ x 58″.
This quilt is easily scalable to a larger size.
Finished block: 4 1/2″ x 4 1/2″.
Skill level: confident beginner / intermediate.
Included in the 5 page pattern:
The quilt uses lots of circles but you don’t need to fear. There are at least a couple of easy techniques you can use to sew perfect circles.
This is my favourite way to make perfect circles.
This technique uses freezer paper and it’s very simple to make. And the best thing is that circles are perfect every time!
If you can’t get freezer paper where you live or over the internet, you can always make circles this other way:
You’ll need light fusible interfacing for this one.
“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.
If you make any of my tutorials this is how you can share your pictures:
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Today we make the block 54-40 or Fight that, together with snowball from last week, makes our Tennessee Waltz quilt.
Apparently the 54-40 or Fight block a US historical name from 1844 based on political opinions and controversies.
Let’s get to it!
In case you missed the snowball last week, here it is again.
“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.
If you make any of my tutorials this is how you can share your pictures:
This post has affiliate links.
This week let’s make a Tennessee Waltz quilt.
The Tennessee Waltz quilt is made of 2 blocks that alternate: a snowball block and a block called the 54-40 or Fight block.
Apparently the 54-40 or Fight block a US historical name from 1844 based on political opinions and controversies.
I hope you enjoy it and see the potential of this easy quilt block on its own while you wait for the next block to complete the quilt.
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“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.
If you make any of my tutorials this is how you can share your pictures:
This post has affiliate links.
