Quilt-A-Long

Since I was soooo wrapped up in quilting last month, I thought I would do a little quilt tutorial! Yay, so exciting....really!

Excuse the horrid photos and messy bed :)

For this quilt I used:

1- Moda Jelly Roll* (Bistro Line)

3/4yd coordinate print (Cut into 2.5" squares)

3/4yd black

2yds coordinate strip

*A Jelly Roll contains approx. 40 - 2.5" x 44" strips. If you want to cut your own strips, go ahead. You're crazy, but go ahead =)

Open up your jelly roll and group 10 clusters of 3 strips

I like to lay them out in the order I will assemble them;

it makes it easier down the road

Start sewing each set of 3 together into strips.

Press

Cut each strip in half

Now you have 2 half lengths of each set of strips.

EVERY OTHER set (5 total) will need ONE half cut in half again.

Giving you 3 pieces total

For the other 5 sets, cut 3" off each half

Still leaving you with 2 pieces

Set aside.

(I like to stack them in the order I had them layed out in)

Next you need to assemble your 9-Blocks.

Using your 3/4yd of coordinate, cut into 2.5" squares

I like to lay my 9-block out before sewing

Sew 3 rows of three blocks.

Then sew the three rows together.

Press.

You will need 25 Nine-blocks.

Before assembling, I lay everything out again.

Lay out Row 1 like so:

9-block

1 strip (from the 2pc set)

9-block

other strip

9 block.

Lay out Row 2 like so:

Small piece from 3pc set

9-Block

Large piece from 3pc set

9-block

small piece from 3pc set

Repeat these two alternately until all blocks and strip sets are gone (5 times)

Make sure you like the way your patterns and colors flow

Now assemble your STRIPS

You will have 10 complete strips.

Now you can sew your strips together

With the 3/4yd of black, cut it into 2.5" strips

( I had a black jelly roll on hand and used 8 strips)

You will need to attach two strips together, making 4 really long strips.

Center the seam on your strips to the center of the long side of your quilt and attach.

Repeat for the other side.

Trim excess on all four corners.

Repeat process for other quilt sides

After this step, I was waiting for the stripe coordinate to come in the mail...and then I forgot I was doing a photo tutorial *hehehe* So you'll have to use your imagination a little bit here...

I used 2yds of this fabric and cut three 4.5" strips and one 6" strip

(what the pattern on the fabric would allow)

Attach a 4.5" strip to each long side of the quilt.

Be sure to watch the direction of your print, if needed.

Trim off any excess from all four corners

Measure the total WIDTH of your quilt.

Trim last two stips of the stripe corrdinate to the width of your quilt

For the top of the quilt, I used the 6" strip and attached 4.5"x6" black blocks to each side.

Again for the bottom, but using a 4.5" strip with 4.5" black blocks.

Attach top and bottom

Yay! You're done! Wasn't that fun?

(All pretty on my bed)