Block of the Month (BOM) February 2018 Block #2

Block 2

Capital T

                                                                                 

So let us get started!

What you Need:

1 fat Quarter White Fabric - Background (either plain or tone on tone)

1 Fat Quarter each light and dark purple Fabric ( Either plain or print)

Sewing Machine with ¼” foot

Rotary Cutter

Cutting Mat

Quilting Ruler

Matching Threads

Thread Snips

Best Press

Iron & Ironing Pad

Cutting Instructions:

You can Find your printable cutting instruction HERE

Cutting Instructions

From the White Background Fabric

Cut 2 ✂ 4⅞”  Squares then cut diagonal to yield 4 triangles.  

Cut 2 ✂ 5 ¼”  Squares Cut Diagonal twice to yield 4 triangles and repeat

With the second square. So you end up with 8 triangles
Cut 1 ✂ 4 ½” Square

Light Purple & Dk Purple Fabrics

Cut 1 ✂ 4⅞” Squares of each colour, then cut diagonal to yield 2 triangles  

Cut 4 ✂ 2⅞” squares of each colour, then cut them Diagonally once to yield

8 triangles of each colour.

Block Assembly

Now onto the Assembly of your Block

and Don't forget we have a Video Tutorial for you

to follow along with you can find the Video

HERE

*****Note****

We are using SCANT Quarter inch seam allowance throughout the
pattern and pressing Seams Open.  Please Reduce your stitch length

2.0 or 1.8 depending on your machine.

First, we are going to create our Half Square Triangles (HST)

You will be creating 4 of these. Reduce your stitch length to 2.0 or lower to what

The machine will allow, We do this as we are opening up our seams. This action of lowering

Our stitch length will stop the block from coming apart.

To Create your 4 HST units, you will,

take your white and Light purple & Dk purple  triangles

with right sides together sew an

Scant ¼" inch seam allowance from one corner

diagonal to the opposite corner.

Now Press open.

Your HST should now look like the picture below

Repeat with the remainder of the triangles.

You will now have 4 units

You will have 2 with light purple and 2 with dark purple

Refer to opening and Closing images if not sure.

HST

Next, we are creating our Flying Geese

you will be creating 4 of these sets

as pictured below and 4 the opposite, So you will have 8 Flying geese sets in total.
One side will have Dk Purple and the other

Will have a light purple triangle. Remembering to use a

Scant ¼” seam allowance and press your seams open

Not sure how to do this, Please refer to the Video

We have posted on YouTube.

You can find it HERE

And don’t forget to Subscribe while you are

There that way you won’t miss out on any

Of my future videos.

Once you have done these, you will then

Sew 2 of them together as pictured,

To create 2 Units and create 2 units the opposite to the picture, with the dark purple on the opposite side.

Step 1.

take 2 of your HST and 1 flying geese unit  and assemble as pictured below

Step 2.

Take your White 4 ½” square and 2 Flying Geese units, and assemble

as shown below.

Step 3.

take 2 of your HST and 1 flying geese unit  and assemble as pictured below

Step 4. now assemble all your rows and pictured below in

the order following the arrow Directions.

Sew top strip to 2nd strip

See image

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Then sew the 2 you have just sewn together, to the next strip

to the 2 that you have just sewn.

nesting your seams

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Your block is now assembled and ready to be set aside

do not trim your block until we have all 12 finished
Make sure that you have ¼” around the block we will not lose any points when it comes to final Assembly of your quilt. Set this block aside.  

Finished Block

Called “Capital T”

I hope you enjoyed your second for the Block of the Month.

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Join us again next Month for another Block

Happy Quilting ") N