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The teacher, I think her name was Cheryl Roberston, was teaching a "Quilt In A Day" project she thought up herself.<br><br></p> <div align="center"><img src="eq/03-sistersquilt.jpg" alt="The Fastest, Easiest Quilt Ever!" width="214" height="240" hspace="5" border="1"></div><br><br> <div align="center"><b>Materials Needed:</b></div><br> <ul> <li>56 eight inch muslin blocks</li><br></ul> <b>A total of 526 three inch blocks.</b><br> <ul><li>8 strips of thirty-two three inch blocks joined together. (256 three inch blocks)</li> <li>72 strips of 3 three inch blocks. (216 three inch blocks)</li> <li>54 three inch blocks for triangle folded border.</li></ul><br> <b>Other Stuff</b><br> <ul><li>Quilt backing</li> <li>Scissors</li> <li>Yardstick</li> <li>Marking pencil</li> <li>Quilt mat marked off in 1 inch grid, or make your own.</li> <li>Cotton quilt batting.</li> <li>Sewing thread</li> <li>Quilting thread</li> </ul> <b>The first thing you do is...</b><br><br> <img src="eq/03-sistersblock01.jpg" alt="Three inch strip" width="52" height="150" hspace="5" border="0" align="left"><p>Cut the 526 three inch blocks you need. You can do as I do, use up the scraps in your stash, or choose several complimentary colors - at least twelve - to give the quilt a color theme.<br><br> <b>I'm afraid of rotary cutters...</b><br><br> Don't laugh! I am the last of the scissors and yardstick quilters, I think.<br><br> I just lay out my fabric on a gridded quilt mat and use a yardstick, Dritz disappearing ink marking pen, and cut a lot of three inch strips from my fat quarters, then I cut those strips into three inch blocks.<br><br> <img src="eq/03-sistersblock04.jpg" alt="32 block strip" width="6" height="150" hspace="5" border="0" align="right"><b>Next, cut the muslin</b><br><br> If you don't want to use muslin, this quilt also looks very nice with a white-on-white cotton print fabric as center blocks.<br><br> <b>Begin sewing</b><br><br> Choosing light - dark - light, or dark - light dark layout, make up your strips of three blocks that will begin your project.<br><br> Use a quarter inch sewing seam. The way I do it is this - I make a pile of lights and darks, then I just start sewing TWO blocks together, and I don't even cut between each set, I just let the machine run and they come out in a long floppy chain of two blocks stuck together.<br><br> Once I have the two block strips done, I go back and add that third block on the end of each one - it takes no time at all to finish your 72 sets of three.<br><br> Now, make those eight 32 block strips and set them aside.<br><br> <b>Attach the three block strips to the muslin.</b><br><br> <img src="eq/03-sistersblock02.jpg" alt="Attaching the three block strip" width="200" height="150" hspace="5" border="0" align="right">As you sew, you may find you have to stretch the muslin or the block strip to make them meet up right.<br><br> You should not have to stretch a LOT, just a little bit. If you're pulling too hard, check to make sure the seams between your blocks are 1/4 inch.<br><br> <img src="eq/03-sistersblock06.jpg" alt="Strip of blocks" width="14" height="150" hspace="5" border="0" align="left">Sew the blocks together, 8 blocks in a strip. You will notice that the last block needs a strip of three blocks at the bottom. Add that strip. so that your strip begins and ends with three block strips attached to muslin blocks.<br><br> <b>Sew the 32 block strips to the muslin block strips.</b><br><br> Once you've done that, you are completely finished with your quilt top, believe it or not!<br><br> All that you need to do next is add the batting and backing, quilt it, and last of all, make the sawtooth border, which is very easy, much easier than binding, to my mind.<br><br> <b>Look for part two - attaching the batting and backing to your quilt, and painless hand quilting in a few days!</b><br><br> </p> </p> <h4 class="Heading3">Note About Part Two</h4> <p>Life often interferes with those of us who offer free content on the web. I have my quilt top nearly finished, and need to do the batting bit so I can take pictures to show you, but I have so many other things calling for my time, I haven't had my sewing stuff out for several months.<br><br> Until today! (January 29, 2004)<br><br> I've got to sort out where everything is, as I am painting rooms, etc. Today I started going through the stash, as I need one more row of blocks for my top. If all goes well, I should have the work layed out for the two projects I am working on by the weekend. Hang in there! </p> <h4 class="Heading3"></h4> <p></p> <p> <a href="abouteq.html">Buy Electric Quilt from Joann's using our link</a>. 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