Plan It!
Traditional quilt designs like this one are great for digging into your stash and using up some of those red, blue and navy fabrics. Pair the scrappy pieced blocks with a focus fabric (like this large blue floral from Moda) and you've tied them all together. Repeat the colors in the borders and you've got a quilt to be proud of! Lissa used some of the blue floral and red border fabrics in the blocks to tie the quilt together.
You Need:
Assorted medium to dark prints, checks & plaids
1 3/4 - 2 1/4 yds. total
Assorted light prints, stripes & checks 1 - 1 1/2 yds. total
Large blue floral 1 3/4 yds.
Red print (inner border) 3/4 yd.
Blue stripe (outer border, bias binding) 3 1/4 yds.
Backing (piece widthwise) 5 3/8 yds.
Batting Full size
Sewing thread
Machine quilting thread
Cut It!
Assorted medium to dark prints, checks & plaids
Cut a total of:
... 20 strips 1 1/2" x width of fabric (WOF)
Cut 20 sets of:
... 4 matching squares, 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"
Assorted light prints, stripes & checks
Cut a total of:
16 strips 1 1/2" x WOF
Large blue floral
... 4 squares 15" x 15", cut in half diagonally twice to make 16 quarter-square triangles (2 left over)
... 12 squares 9 1/2" x 9 1/2"
... 2 squares 8" x 8", cut in half diagonally to make 4 half-square triangles
Red print
... 4 strips 2 1/2" x 70", pieced from 8 WOF strips
Blue stripe
... 4 strips 9 1/2" x 77", cut on lengthwise grain
