This week’s clue for the Orca Bay Mystery Quilt is to make 350 half-square triangle (HSQ) units that measure 2″ square unfinished, 1.5″ finished (when sewn into a block or the quilt itself). After all the cutting I did for the quarter-square triangle units I wasn’t looking forward to this step.
This is a basic tutorial for simple quilting in the hoop without marking your quilt top. It is good practice if you ever want to move on to doing special designs in specific shapes, blocks and spaces.
I’m doing a bunch of snowball blocks for a new quilt top and I thought I’d share my method. Snowball blocks normally have smaller corner triangles but I wanted more color in my quilt so mine are bigger.
This is a great block to learn paper piecing on and use up scraps at the same time! You can use it to make a mini quilt with several blocks or just use it as I did for a small pincushion.
Mario Quilt Block · How To Make A Patchwork Quilt. Free Pattern and Tutorial.
Part 1 – Fabric Selection, cutting and Strip Piecing. Welcome fellow quilt alongers! This will be part 1 of a 3 part quilt along to make some simple placemats and an optional table runner using the bargello technique.
Part 2 – Cutting your tubes, using your seam ripper and sewing rows back together. Miss Part 1? You can find it here! By now you should have all your fabric cut and sewn together into tubes. Depending on which pattern you are doing you should either have four tubes sewn together for the placemats or two tubes for the table runner. If you are doing both you will have six tubes total!
