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© Bonnie K Hunter.
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Chloe giving her approval on Old Tobacco Road!
It's LAYOUT TIME!! If you've made it this far over Labor Day Weekend, 2008, I applaud you! That is lots of sewing and lots of little pieces to get you this far. Now you will start seeing the fruits (or is it the CROPS?) of your labors!
Chloe, Quilt Control Manager!
Click HERE for Part 5, the Finale!
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Old Tobacco Road!
~A Quiltville Mystery Quilt!!~© Bonnie K Hunter.
Part 4
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here for printer-friendly html version)(click here for .pdf file)
Chloe giving her approval on Old Tobacco Road!
It's LAYOUT TIME!! If you've made it this far over Labor Day Weekend, 2008, I applaud you! That is lots of sewing and lots of little pieces to get you this far. Now you will start seeing the fruits (or is it the CROPS?) of your labors!
This is my EQ drawing of the
layout. Of course, in EQ you really can't draw BRICKS, at least I
couldn't figure out how to insert soild bricks in between our
pieced-unit bricks, so I had to color in two square representing
bricks! The one on the left shows scrappy 4 patches and pinwheels, and
the one on the right...more controlled. See why the 4 patches need to
go
a certain way in the pieced bricks? They chain down the length of the
quilt from top to bottom, while the bricks go on the diagonal! Is this
cool or what? It's like rows of tobacco growing with furrows in between.
For this step you need to cut:
(108) 3.5" X 6.5" Bricks from Browns/Rusts/Blacks
(6) 3.5" squares from the same Browns/Rusts/Blacks
This is where the quilt top becomes a design wall or a design floor project. We are going to start in the upper left corner and build this quilt in diagonal rows to the bottom right corner. The edges will "zig zag" and we will trim them up after the center is pieced.
For this step you need to cut:
(108) 3.5" X 6.5" Bricks from Browns/Rusts/Blacks
(6) 3.5" squares from the same Browns/Rusts/Blacks
This is where the quilt top becomes a design wall or a design floor project. We are going to start in the upper left corner and build this quilt in diagonal rows to the bottom right corner. The edges will "zig zag" and we will trim them up after the center is pieced.
Look at the upper left hand
corner and start laying out your pieces like this. The rows will
alternate solid bricks with pieced units and each row will get longer
until we reach the quilt center. I laid a brick in the upper left
corner,but really, that could be a square. So much got trimmed off in
the trimming process. But I learned as I went! (this is where you see
the Quiltville Thought Process at work! On the floor on my hands and
knees, playing with my pieces!)
Sew the units into rows, and then sew the rows together to build the quilt center. When joining rows, you will want to be sure that the pinwheel units are in a straight line down the quilt. It looks kinda funky with those zig zag edges hanging out there, but don't worry. We'll clean them up later.
Sew the units into rows, and then sew the rows together to build the quilt center. When joining rows, you will want to be sure that the pinwheel units are in a straight line down the quilt. It looks kinda funky with those zig zag edges hanging out there, but don't worry. We'll clean them up later.
It's getting closer!
Can you see (even with a slightly blurry pic?) How it is getting there?
The "length" of the quilt is 18 pinwheels. The width of the quilt is 5
pieced rows in between 6 rows of diagonal bricks. I like to piece the
quilt into rows, keeping the quilt top in two halves. Then I join the
two halves together. This keeps the top from being too unweildy, and
the most bulky seam I have to do is the one that joins the halves
together.
Bottom corner layout....see
how it comes down to one square in the bottom right? And
yes....there is more COW fabric in this quilt! I swear, this is
the fabric that just won't die! I used up lots of it in backs of quilts
in my Scraps & Shirttails book. It's really funny when I do a
trunk show because people start counting cows after a while..*LOL*
Trimming Time!
If it helps you, at this
point you can give your quilt top a good pressing with some spray
starch or fabric sizing. We are going to be trimming those bricks
off on their bias. Whatever you do...BE GENTLE. Let the
heat and the weight of the iron work on their own without a lot of
smooshing around because you don't want to stretch anything out of
whack. Lay the ruler against the upper right hand corner of the quilt
top with the edge of the ruler against the flat spot at the top of the
pieced bricks column,. Run the side edge of the ruler up through the
diagonal corners of the bricks and trim. Most of these trimmings
are quite large, and they went right into my "odd sized triangles" bin!
See how much I lost of that
upper left hand brick I started out with? This is why you really
only need a square there. Live and learn by doing!
And here it is! Old Tobacco
Road! If you are just wanting the couch size quilt, all you need
to do from here is quilt and bind! You can also add simple borders if
you don't want to continue on to making the quilt into a full size.
If you DO want to make the quilt bigger, and are up for more adventurous (not to be confused with monotonous!) piecing, hang with me....we'll do borders in Step 5!
If you DO want to make the quilt bigger, and are up for more adventurous (not to be confused with monotonous!) piecing, hang with me....we'll do borders in Step 5!
Chloe, Quilt Control Manager!
Click HERE for Part 5, the Finale!
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