A year-long quilt project
Welcome to the eleventh step in the 2024 quilt project. (You can find the first one here, the second one here, the third one here, the fourth one here, the fifth one here, the sixth one here, the seventh here, the eighth here , the ninth here and the tenth here.) As I explained in the New Year’s post here, I have been making a quilt this year and inviting you to join with me, here on the blog.
Please note: All the instructions are free and available for your personal use. They cannot be used for commercial purposes or for teaching. I do run a small business, so if you enjoy making the quilt please consider also purchasing one of my patterns from the Etsy shop (link below) and/or tell your quilting friends about Amanda Jane Textiles. Thank you!
For the last ten months, this is what has appeared:
- a new appliqué block each month
- a new embroidery stitch each month
- cheerful bright colours (but of course you can choose your own colour palette!)
- a quilt celebrating the seaside
Of course, you are welcome to just make the individual blocks each month and use them in a different way. If you want to make them into a quilt, you need the October post (listed above) and this month’s post about adding the borders. In December, there will be final instructions for layering up the quilt which will measure 72 x 72″ when it is finished.
Please note: All the instructions are free and available for your personal use. They cannot be used for commercial purposes or for teaching. I do run a small business, so if you enjoy making the quilt please consider also purchasing one of my patterns from the Etsy shop (link below) and/or tell your quilting friends about Amanda Jane Textiles. Thank you!
Making the internal borders
The quilt has two internal borders, one at the top and one at the bottom of the piece completed in October.
Materials
You will need:
a strip 11 x 42″ of white fabric and of pale aqua fabric
1 metre of red solid fabric
10 x 10″ of red patterned fabric
thread for piecing
Cutting
Cut 16 squares 4 ⅞ x 4 ⅞ ” from the white fabric
Cut 16 squares 4 ⅞ x 4 ⅞ ” from the aqua fabric
Cut eight strips 4½ x 32½” from the red solid fabric
Cut four squares 4½ x 4½” from the red print fabric
Making
1 Draw a diagonal line in pencil from corner to corner across each aqua square.
2 Place the aqua square right sides together with the white square. You may like to pin them as shown.
3 Stitch a quarter-inch seam, to the right of the marked line, using the pencil line as your guide.
4 Take the work out of the machine and stitch another quarter-inch seam, in the same direction, but this time to the left of the marked line.
5 Trim the threads.
6 With fabric shears, cut down the pencil line.
7 Press the seam, then press the seam allowances towards the aqua side.
8 Join two blocks together with a quarter inch seam, to form a larger aqua triangle. Press to set the seam, then press the seam open.
9 Repeat the process seven more times for the top border. Join the eight sets of block pairs together to make a piece 64½” long. Join the border to the top of the quilt top, with the points of the triangles facing downwards as shown.
10 Repeat the process eight more times for the bottom internal border. Join the eight sets of block pairs together to make a piece 64½” long. Join the border to the bottom of the quilt top, with the points of the triangles facing downwards as shown.
Adding the external borders
11 Join two of the long red strips together at the short ends with a quarter inch seam and attach the outer border to the left-hand side of the quilt. Join another two strips and attach the outer border to the right-hand side of the quilt.
12 Join two more red border strips. Add a red print square at each end. Attach the border to the bottom of the quilt. Repeat these steps to add a border to the top of the quilt.
The quilt top is complete and should look something like this:
Next month, there will be instructions for layering up the quilt, suggestions for quilting and advice on adding a binding.
There is plenty of time to make a cover for your Christmas Tree stand. This is the most popular of my patterns. You can get it here
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