paintmejudy

Happy Saturday to all, and here we go again!

If you are using yardage and not making a scrappy -- use light and your neutral. This is where you MUST have contrast with all your fabrics.

For the scrappy fans, anything from lighter mediums and medium and medium dark, even some dark as long as not dark as midnight. Not too light either, you need contrast. . All will be fine as long as you have contrast with your neutrals.


today you will be done with cutting neutral/lights unless you plan on using some in a border, which I am leaving to you to decide on how you will finish off the quilt.

Today we start to make a batch of 4-patch – you will need 96 4-patch that measure 3-1/2” square. Make sure your size of the pressed block is correct. Adjust needle position if needed, and have accurate cutting.

NOTE: I need to confess that I had all the parts for the 4 patch done and sewn together, and was beginning to assemble the quilt, when I wished I hadn’t paired them up to match. I think the look would have been scrappier if the pairs didn’t match. But was not going to pick apart and re-sew all those 4-patch blocks. I liked the finished project and wasn’t all that disappointed in the matched 4-patch. You chose how you want to do them – controlled or uncontrolled scrappy.

For scrappy – I cut the strips at 2” wide, then cut these pieces into 9 to 10” pieces, so I would have the greatest variety of colors then sewed a darker with a neutral , right sides together, pressed seam to the dark. Cut into segments that measure 2” wide. Put two segments together , and sew into a 4-patch. Press. They must measure at 3-1/2” square. Check your seam, and use scant seam allowance if they do not measure correctly. Watch your cutting, too. Trim as needed. If you have an abundance of 2-1/2” squares, you can use up some of these squares.

Non scrappy - Same thing, except using WOF cut 2" wide strips, sew together and subcut into 2" segments, and make a 4-patch.

Again I am giving you two weeks to make these 4-patch. I will be out of town again from the 11th to the 17th. More family stuff. Final clue and the directions for the rest of the pieces and the assembly of your quilt will be given on Oct. 20.

I’ll check in soon.