Quilt Along {week 1}

I hope you all have picked out your fabric and love it as much as I love mine. Next step: cutting.

I'm not going to lie cutting these pieces out is not the quickest or easiest task but I'll try to help and make my instructions as easy as possible.

Everyone take out your cutting supplies and get ready to cut!

Before we start take your backing fabric, Border #1, and Border #3 fabrics and set them aside we won't be using these fabrics for a while.

Step#1

Take your 8 pieces measuring 3/8 yard and cut strips that are 2-1/2 inches by the length of the fabric, should be close to 45''. You should get 5 strips out of each fabric piece. 40 pieces total.

Step #2

Take your pile of 40 fabric strips and separate them into 2 piles of 20. Make sure you have a good mixture of different fabrics in each pile.

Step #3

For this quilt you will need 4 different size pieces.

A: 2-1/2'' x 6-1/2''

B: 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2''

C: 2-1/2'' x 8-1/2''

D: 2-1/2'' x 10-1/2''

From the first 20 strips start cutting one of each size piece, one A, B, C, and D out of each stirp.

Set your scraps aside. (DON'T THROW THEM AWAY WE WILL NEED THEM LATER)

Now with the next 20 strips cut one B and C, and 3 A's from each strip

Again set your scraps aside we will need them later.

Thats it! Not to bad for the first week! Have fun cutting and check back soon for our first week of sewing!!!!

Happy Quilting!!