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Block of the Month April 2007 Jody's President Block |
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It's been a tradition of the Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild to make a block for the outgoing president. Some of them have been signature blocks, some haven't. Here's the one Jody's picked. Her colors are cream, bright red, and dark brown. |
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She
wants the cream colored center to be double-thick, so the brown
and the red seams won't shadow thru the middle. There's several ways
she's suggested you can do this, use fusible web/mesh to iron two cream
squares together, use a few dots from a gluestick, or run a small basting
stitch around the squares, in the seam allowance.
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You'll want to cut 4 long rectangles, two red and two brown,that measure 2½ x 4½, four 2½ squares, two in red and two brown, and TWO cream squares, stuck together, and trimmed to 4½ square. |
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Sew each red square to a brown square, and sew each red rectangle to a brown rectangle. Press seams to the dark brown. Then, looking at the block sample above for color placement, sew the red/brown squares on both sides of the doubled cream middle. Then add the rectangle strips to the top and bottom. |
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Remember, before you sign it, she wants the red portions of the block to be on the upper left and bottom right. :) Sign it with a permanent fabric marker. She says you can put your name, a message, the date, whatever you want!
Here's what a finished quilt layout might look like, using Jody's blocks. Blocks should measure 8½ inches square when you finish them. Once sewn together into a quilt, they'll measure 8 inches square. |
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Guild or ForestJane Designs, unless otherwise noted. |
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