Block of the Month (BOM) Block #7 July 2018

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How to Make Strawberry Smoothie Quilt Block

Block #7

What you Need:

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

1 Fat Quarter Orange, Red and Yellow ( Either plain or print)

Sewing Machine with ¼” foot

Rotary Cutter

Cutting Mat

Quilting Ruler (Affiliate Link)

Matching Threads

Thread Snips

Best Press

Alphabitties

Iron and Ironing Pad

Cutting Instructions:

You can Find your printable cutting instruction HERE

Cutting Instructions

From the White Background Fabric

Cut 4 ✂ 2⅞ ”  Squares. ( ref B )

Cut 1 ✂

5⅜

” squares ( ref C )

Cut 1 ✂ 4⅝ ” squares ( ref D )

Red

Cut 4 ✂

2⅝

” Squares ( ref A )

Cut 2 ✂ 5" Squares (ref E )

Yellow

Cut 1 ✂

5⅜

” squares ( ref C )

Orange

Cut 2 ✂ 5" Squares (ref E )

 Refer to Printable Cutting instructions for 

further cutting of squares. 

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, you are going to make your corner units, there are 4 of these and we are going to call

this Unit A.

Take Cut (A) Red square and 2 of your cut (B) white triangles and attached the short side of the

triangle to one side of the Square

making sure that one corner of your triangle is around a quarter past the end of the

square, and that the top point of the triangle is flush with the top part of the square,

you can get a better look at this in the Supplementary video HERE

Using a scant quarter inch seam allowance.

Press seam open and now add the second triangle to the other side,

again making sure that one point of your triangle is off the end of the Square.

now that you have pressed your seams open, you are ready

to add the orange triangle cut (E) to the unit you just made

You unit A. should look like the pic below and you should have 4 of these units

Unit A.

Now, we are going to create our Split Quarter Square Triangles (SQST)

You will be creating 4 units SQST ( Unit B ).
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 SQST units, you will,

take your White and Yellow triangles from cut C

with right sides together sew an

Scant ¼" inch seam allowance on the short side of the triangle

as shown in the Video.

 Press open. Now take Cut E in Red and add these to the

The yellow and white unit you just made... Press, but this mostly

want to be pressed to the dark side (red triangle) this is ok will

not affect the overall block.

Your SQST should now look like the picture below

Repeat with the remainder of the triangles, until

you have 4 Units

SQST

Remembering to use scant ¼” seam allowance and press your seams open where possible

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.

Now onto Block assembly

Step 1.

Assemble your first row as pictured below

Step 2.

Assemble row 2 like pictured

Step 3.

Assemble row 3 as pictured below

Step 6.

We now are going to assemble the block follow the

images below and the arrows...

Make sure that you press your seams open and nest

your seams..refer to the video if you are not sure.

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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 “Strawberry Smoothie ”

I hope you enjoyed your seventh block for the Block of the Month.

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Happy Quilting ") N