Double Four Patch Quilt and Pattern

Last week was one busy week, to start and finish a custom quilt that I nearly forgot that was due at the end of August.  Back in February, my husbands co-worker asked if I would make a pink double sized quilt for her husbands Aunt who is turning 95 at the end of August. They wanted a simple design since she could not see that well anymore. So I designed a Double 4 Patch quilt made out of Moda Marble Fabrics to help keep her costs down.  

The Moda Marbles I choose was Pink Sherbert and Baby Pink.  They colors blended so well together, I was pleased.  

The Double Four Patch is a easy quilt block for the beginner quilter. It consists of two four patch blocks and two solid square blocks.  You can get the Pattern for this quilt HERE.

 Start by 15-2 1/2" x WOF strips of each color.  

 

From those strips take one of each color and lay them so the right sides facing together. and sew them together with a 1/4" seam allowance. Make 15 Strip Sets.

 Sew them together with a 1/4" seam allowance. Pressing the seams open toward the dark fabric.

 

On a cutting mat and ruler you will cut subcut the strip sets into 2 1/2" segments.  The ruler I'm using is the Bloc Loc Strip Set Ruler. It has channel locks that will lock to the seam and makes seams and fabric straight to get a nice straight accurate cut.

 

 You will need 252 for this size quilt.

 Take 2 segments and lay them down with right sides facing together and so the colors are opposite of each other.  Sew them together and when they open up they should look the picture above.  Press seam to one side. Make 126-4 1/2" squares.

 

 Out of the Darker fabric cut 16 strips 4 1/2" x WOF, then subcut them into 126, 4 1/2" squares.

Assemble the block as shown above, with the 4-patch block light colors going all in the same direction.  Press seam to one side. Block should measure 8 1/2" x 8 1/2".

 

 Take 2 blocks and lay them out so the look like the photo above.  Start with sewing just the top row together.  Make 31.

 

Then assemble the block so they look this above big block above. Make 12 that measure 16 1/2" x 16 1/2".

 Assemble all the blocks together.  Refer to the Pattern for more instruction on this assembly processes.

Once you have all the blocks sewn together you just need to add borders.  For this quilts I added 3 borders. Border 1- 2 1/2" (Dark fabric), Border 2- 4 1/2" (Light fabric), Border 3- 6 1/2" (Dark fabric).

I finished this quilt with Quilters Dream Select batting and a pantograph called Garden Frills by Bean Girl Quilts.

More T-shirt Progress!

Yesterday, was a challenging day to get some sewing and quilting in due to we had power outages most of the morning. the power outages were from the freezing rain we got the night before. But I was determine to make some progress on the shirt quilts.  So I cut all the pieces to the binding of T-shirt Quilt #1. Once I got the binding cut out, the power came on long enough for me to get the binding done.   

Since that we had no power again after the binding was done, I could not use the long-arm to quilt T-shirt #1 yet.  So I worked on layout  of T-shirt #2 and getting completed by late afternoon.

After the layout was completed on the design wall and the power had been stable for a good 4-5 hours.  I decide to go ahead and get the quilting done on T-shirt #1 (Brown and Tan).   

By the mid-evening, I had the 106" x 110" quilt done.  My customer asked for double batting on the quilt so I used Quilter Dream Midnight Dream Poly Batting on the quilt.  The quilt will be a nice warm quilt, but the only bad thing about the double batting it makes the quilt real heavy when finished.  

The pantograph was called "Inkblot", from Willow Leaf Studios.




 
 
The back came out beautifully, I used a few extra T-shirts in the back toward the top middle.  Also in the backing I used the Tan Marble fabric in the middle and the Dark Saddle Fabric on the each of the sides of the Tan fabric.  



The quilt came out beautiful, so today I was able to the binding on the front of the quilt with help from a friend, thanks Lynn.   Now I get to start sewing the binding on the back while the hockey game is on.


Also, Today, I finished resizing T-shirt  #2 quilt and the cutting all the pieces of sashing, so tomorrow I can sew and hope to get the quilt almost done.  


But now, it is time for binding!

Tina

More T-shirt Progress!

Yesterday, was a challenging day to get some sewing and quilting in due to we had power outages most of the morning. the power outages were from the freezing rain we got the night before. But I was determine to make some progress on the shirt quilts.  So I cut all the pieces to the binding of T-shirt Quilt #1. Once I got the binding cut out, the power came on long enough for me to get the binding done.   

Since that we had no power again after the binding was done, I could not use the long-arm to quilt T-shirt #1 yet.  So I worked on layout  of T-shirt #2 and getting completed by late afternoon.

After the layout was completed on the design wall and the power had been stable for a good 4-5 hours.  I decide to go ahead and get the quilting done on T-shirt #1 (Brown and Tan).   

By the mid-evening, I had the 106" x 110" quilt done.  My customer asked for double batting on the quilt so I used Quilter Dream Midnight Dream Poly Batting on the quilt.  The quilt will be a nice warm quilt, but the only bad thing about the double batting it makes the quilt real heavy when finished.  

The pantograph was called "Inkblot", from Willow Leaf Studios.




 
 
The back came out beautifully, I used a few extra T-shirts in the back toward the top middle.  Also in the backing I used the Tan Marble fabric in the middle and the Dark Saddle Fabric on the each of the sides of the Tan fabric.  



The quilt came out beautiful, so today I was able to the binding on the front of the quilt with help from a friend, thanks Lynn.   Now I get to start sewing the binding on the back while the hockey game is on.


Also, Today, I finished resizing T-shirt  #2 quilt and the cutting all the pieces of sashing, so tomorrow I can sew and hope to get the quilt almost done.  


But now, it is time for binding!

Tina

Coaches Gifts!

This week has been busy working on small, complicated quilts.  My friend and her son asked me to make some custom gifts for his the schools cross country team coaches.  After working with her over several days, I was able to design the gifts with school logos, running quotes, photos and other things related to cross country.

The quilts were made with Moda Marbles fabric using school colors and measured 24" x 24" finished. 
 
It took me and my husband most of Saturday morning to make design everything in the embroidery software on the quilts.  Then on Sunday I started sewing all the embroidery designs out, and took me 3 full days to embroidery everything out for all three quilts.

My husband cleaned up the photos for me.  So all I had to do was print all the pictures out on fabric paper.

By Wednesday, afternoon I had all the borders on all 3, and was loading them on the longarm for quilting.

The quilting was just a basic stitch in the ditch work.  Which was done yesterday.  I added the binding and now I just need to finish sewing the other 2 quilts binding to the back and they will be complete.

Well, the other two will have to wait until I return from Thanksgiving.  When I get back, I will have a few T-shirts quilts to make for a customer.


Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and is safe.


Tina

Coaches Gifts!

This week has been busy working on small, complicated quilts.  My friend and her son asked me to make some custom gifts for his the schools cross country team coaches.  After working with her over several days, I was able to design the gifts with school logos, running quotes, photos and other things related to cross country.

The quilts were made with Moda Marbles fabric using school colors and measured 24" x 24" finished. 
 
It took me and my husband most of Saturday morning to make design everything in the embroidery software on the quilts.  Then on Sunday I started sewing all the embroidery designs out, and took me 3 full days to embroidery everything out for all three quilts.

My husband cleaned up the photos for me.  So all I had to do was print all the pictures out on fabric paper.

By Wednesday, afternoon I had all the borders on all 3, and was loading them on the longarm for quilting.

The quilting was just a basic stitch in the ditch work.  Which was done yesterday.  I added the binding and now I just need to finish sewing the other 2 quilts binding to the back and they will be complete.

Well, the other two will have to wait until I return from Thanksgiving.  When I get back, I will have a few T-shirts quilts to make for a customer.


Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and is safe.


Tina