Friday, May 27, 2011

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 20 - Clays Choice

Clay's Choice is made with half square triangles and squares and uses 3 fabrics.

A Clay's Choice calculator is available for different size and number of blocks for your own project.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 19 - Old Windmill

The Old Windmill block is made up of 16 half square triangle units using a background with another fabric.
The instructions will use the square method of making half square triangles by adding ⅞ inch seam allowance to the desire finished square size of 1½ inches. You may round up your cut square measurement to 2½ inches, then just square up units to 2 inches.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 17 - Jacobs Ladder

Jacob's Ladder is a nine patch grid layout block using four patch units and half square triangle units. Use 3 fabrics, background and accent fabric plus an additional coordinating fabric.