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Monday, October 8, 2012

Halloween Chevron Quilt Tutorial

There she is!

I absolutely LOVE how this quilt turned out!

And not to toot my horn or anything....but I did the whole thing myself. Even the quilting. Yup.

**toot toot!

Would you like to make one of your very own?

I know you are thinking it looks hard. Not to worry, it was super easy. Just scroll down and take a look at the tutorial pictures and see for yourself!

Here we go!

You will need (19) 1/4 yard cuts. Not fat quarters, quarter yards.

You can use less that 19 prints if you want to repeat a few.

Then you will cut (2) 3"x44" strips from each of your 1/4 yards.

So you will have to 2 strips of each print. 38 strips all together.

I next laid my strips on top of each other, in the order that I wanted the quilt.

Start at the top of the quilt and lay out the first 4 strips, here it is the 2 green and the 2 white spider web strips.

(You won't actually need that top green strip)

Take 1 green strip, and on White Spider web strip and sew them right sides together, lengthwise.

And then press the seam towards the darker print, so the green one in this case.

Next you are going to cut 5.5" squares out of your strip.

You should get 7 squares from 1 strip.

Sorry for the horrible pictures, they are from my phone!

Lay your squares at the top of the quilt like this.

Now, take the other white spider web strip, and then one of the next strip down, and do the same thing.

Are you starting to see a pattern here?

Now, all you need to do is turn those squares to start forming your chevron design.

Now just repeat that pattern.

Take the other orange strip, and then 1 of the black strips and sew, cut and place.

After those first two rows, it is pretty easy to see where the next rows fit in.

Repeat all these steps until you sewn every row.

Now you can start pieces your squares together.

Start in 1 corner of the quilt, and start sewing the rows diagonally together, to make diagonal strips.

Once you have all your diagonal rows formed, start joining them on the diagonal.

1/2 way there!

Once you have the whole quilt put together, just trim off all the jagged edges.

Then quilt, bind and your done!

Like I mentioned before, I quilted this one myself. Just straight lines, but I was still pretty proud of myself.

I love it. Now I just need to figure out where I want to put it!

Can you just image how cute this pattern would be with red and white fabric for Christmas!
Ooooh, I am drooling already!

I know we haven't even hit Halloween yet, but now is the best time to get started on all those Christmas projects and handmade gifts! Christmas will be here before we know it!

I am getting started on my Christmas quilt.....and I am SEW EXCITED!

Happy Sewing!

Friday, October 5, 2012

New Pattern Friday!

Wait, WHAT?

That's right, no new fabric this week. I know, I know, it was a shock to me as well.

But we did get in a nice array of new Patterns for the SHOP this week.

Check 'em out!

From Cluck Cluck Sew

I am dying to try Inside Out. DYING!

From Favorite Things and Fig Tree

From Cotton Way

From Izzy and Ivy

From Pink Fig

I love patterns. These are so much easier to follow than some of the one you might find at a huge retailer, ahem, Joanns. Or places like that. I remember in High School Sewing Class we had to go and purchase a pattern, fabric and notions, and then sew it. Good golly, it may have well been written in Chinese. I didn't understand anything past the cute picture on the cover.

These are all written by ladies just like you and me, and most of the time have awesome drawings and illustrations to help get you through it. Did I mention that they are MUCH EASIER than older patterns.

You can find all the Patterns that we carry HERE.

Have a "Seweeet" weekend everyone!

I'll be back on Monday with a fabulous quilt tutorial.

You which one I am talking about....the one that rhymes with "Revron"!

See ya!