MIX & MINGLE {A SCRAPPY PRECUT QUILT TUTORIAL}

MIX & MINGLE {A SCRAPPY PRECUT QUILT TUTORIAL}

FINISHED SIZE: 36" x 56"

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The Scrappy Precut Quilt Blog Series was designed to help

quilters think outside the box. 

It was designed to inspire quilters to use their precut fabrics to create

perfectly scrappy quilts.

The first quilt in the series is rather simple in design.

I wanted to keep the first quilt rather simple in construction

so that we could focus on using entirely different fabric lines
to make a scrappy quilt.

Grab your favorite charm packs and let's get started.

Fabric Requirements:

• 3 Charm Packs or (126) 5" X 5" coordinating squares
• 0.5 yards of fabric for binding
• 42" X 62" piece of batting
• 3.5 yards of fabric for backing

For this scrappy quilt I chose to work with three charm packs:

Simply Color by V and Co.

Ticklish by Me & My Sister Designs

Honey Honey by Kate Spain

The reason that I chose these three fabric lines is because

they all contained similar color stories.

The first thing that I did was open each charm pack one at a time.

I laid out the fabric from each fabric line

separately so that I could get a good look at each print and color story.

Here is Ticklish by Me & My Sister Designs:

Here is Honey Honey by Kate Spain:

You can see how the color stories can be put together to form a cohesive

color scheme.

Since we are using precut fabrics from entire fabric lines,

we know that the scale and variety of prints is going to be balanced.

Moda and its desginers have done the work for us.

They have already created different size and scale prints

within each fabric line.

All we have to do is decide which fabric lines we want to put together.

Next,

I grabbed all of the prints in one color scheme from each of the

different fabric line.

Here are all of the orange color prints from the three fabric lines:

As you can see the orange color scheme varies in shading.

The prints are different in size and scale

but they work well together.

Here are some of the other color schemes:

Now you can start to see how all of the prints

can MIX & MINGLE together to create a scrappy quilt.

I also wanted to point out that I also separated

all of the white/light colored prints (low volume prints).

Here are the low volume prints from the three fabric lines:

I decided to keep them separate from the other color stories.

When I constructed the Half Square Triangles (HST)

I paired the low volume prints together rather than

mix them in with the other color schemes.

Now that you have seen my thought process

for choosing these fabric lines,

let's start constructing the quilt.

Block Construction:

Note: All seams are sewn with 1/4" seam allowance

Step 1:

• On the back of 63 charm squares, draw a diagonal line from corner to corner.
• Look at your lovely stacks of charm squares. Choose any 2 charm squares.Place 2 charm squares Right Sides Together (RST).
• Stitch a seam 1/4" away from the diagonal line. Repeat for the other side of the diagonal line.
• Using your rotary cutter, cut on the diagonal line. This will yield two Half Square Tirangle blocks (HST).
• Press the block open.

Step 2:

• Trim the HST to 4 1/2" X 4 1/2". This will yield a total of 126 HST.

Step 3:

• Place two HST blocks Right Sides Together (RST).
• Pin.
• Sew the blocks together.

Step 4:

• Press the block open.

Step 5:

• With RST, pin the next HST to the block.
• Sew the HST to the block.
• Press the block open.

Step 6:

• Repeat step 3-5 until you have 9 HST blocks sewn together.
• Press the block open. Follow the pressing directions listed in the diagram.

Step 7:

• Repeat the steps and make a total of 14 rows of HST.

Step 8:

• With RST, pin row 1 to row 2.
• Sew the rows together.
• Press the block open.
• Repeat until you have all 14 rows sewn together.

Step 9:

• Make a quilt sandwich.
• Baste your quilt.
• Quilt  using your favorite quilting method.
• Attach the binding.
• Enjoy your Mix & Mingle Scrappy Quilt.

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Until Next Time... Happy Quilting