Red, White & Blue-Progress Report

Red, White & Blue

Progress Report

A while back (several years) I took 

"The Process Pledge"

what that means is to show the step by step

process of the quilts I share.

Now it has been awhile since I have done that

so I have decided this is a good one to share.

So here goes.

In my last post I shared my beginning design 

and some of the elements for the quilt.

The eagles

 The fabric

 The design

Now to how it is done.

The design is call 

"Friendship Star"

I am making a twin size quilt.

Cut 8 strips that are 4 1/2 inches by WOF

(width of fabric) of the 3 main colors.

Cut each strip at 4 1/2 inches to create squares.

Next, cut 6 strips @ 4 7/8 inches by WOF in red and blue

12 in white.

Sub cut these to 9 3/4 inches

 Place a red or a blue right sides together with a white

 On the white (or light fabric if your using something else)

draw lines like so, for my quilt I did this 17 times with the red/white combo

and 16 times for the blue/white combo.

Using your 1/4 inch foot on your machine, sew a 1/4 inch

on either side of the lines that go in the V shape.  The line up

the middle is not sewn.

Now that the V is sewn on both sides of the drawn line

you will cut the blocks apart on all drawn lines.

Since you made a line of sewing on both sides of the drawn 

line making the V shape the drawn line goes inbetween the sewn lines

and when cut on the drawn line you have 

created a half square triangle like this.  Do this with 

both your red and white combo & your blue and white combo.

Press seams to the dark fabric.

I have the red and white combo done, working on the blue and white.

Stay tuned for more details.

Until next time.....God's blessings