Quilter's Academy Vol. 5 - Masters Year: A Skill-Building Course in Quiltmaking by Harriet Hargrave & Carrie Hargrave-Jones

Author:Harriet Hargrave & Carrie Hargrave-Jones [Hargrave, Harriet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Published: 2015-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

Diagram of triple-square border units

Make your side-setting and corner triangle units a little larger than exact size. If your quilt is not behaving itself in size, you will be able to trim it to be the right size to fit your center medallion square.

To finish this unit, cut the border that lies between the center and the block units you just constructed. For these two interior borders you will need to cut 2 strips of your sashing fabric 1½˝ and add it to the top and bottom of the center medallion square. Once sewn, measure from the seamline and trim down to 1¼˝, then add the two pieced borders to the top and bottom of the medallion square unit.

BORDER 5

A plain border is next. This is the outer brown border that surrounds the entire center medallion. Here again is a place that if your quilt is not the size you think it should be you can use this border to manipulate the size. Until you get the outer border constructed, you don’t know exactly how wide it needs to be. We will help you out a little. Cut 5 – 3˝-wide strips. Sew together for length as necessary and then add them to the sides of the center medallion. You can now set this part of your quilt aside for a bit while you construct the outer pieced border unit.

BORDER 6

You will need to construct the 14 – 9˝ blocks contained in the border, being extra careful that your blocks all come out to be 9½˝. If your blocks are not accurate, completing the construction of your quilt will be difficult.

Once your blocks are constructed, lay them out around your center medallion. Cut the side-setting triangles to create your block border. Refer back to Quilter’s Academy Vol. 2, Lesson Two to pick your favorite method and cut 10 side-setting triangles from the dark toile and 18 side-setting triangles from the light toile.

You will need 14 – 1½˝ strips for the sashing. Of these strips, 4 need to remain full length; 3 need to be cut in half so you have 4 – 1½˝ × 22˝ strips; 5 need to be cut into fourths so you have 20 – 1½˝ × 9½˝ strips. The last 2 strips need to be cut into 4 – 10½˝ lengths and 4 – 11˝ lengths. This is easiest to accomplish by cutting two of each size from each strip.

Lay these out between your blocks as shown in the following illustration (sewing 2 strips together where necessary for length). Construct 4 corner units of 2 blocks and 4 light toile side-setting triangles with the sashing between.

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