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| Blueberry Pie featuring Soft Dreams from P&B Textiles 60" x 64" Designed by Heidi Pridemore |
This month’s FREE pattern is
a yummy quilt that reminded me of dessert so I named it Blueberry Pie. I
designed this quilt using the AccuQuilt Go!Big Electric Fabric Cutter and Soft Dreams fabric from P&B
Textiles.
This month’s featured die is
the Go! Strip Cutter-2 ½” strips withangled Guide Line (55017). This die is so easy to work with to create
accurate 2 ½” strips and diamonds you want to keep making diamond projects. The
die is also perfect for creating your own 2 ½” strips. There are so many projects
available from the different fabric companies that use 2 ½” precut strip
packages. Now you can make you own 2 ½” strip sets quickly and easily to use
your stash. Then you can take it one
step further to create accurate diamonds by following the diagonal lines that
are printed on the die. This just what I did to create the fun chevron borders
on our Blueberry Pie quilt.
For this pattern I used the Go! Strip Cutter-2 ½” strips with angled
Guide Line die and the Go Half-Square Triangle-2” finished SquareMultiples die (55063) to create the Diamond units. We have made a video showing
how to cut the diamonds and I will also show you the step-by-step process in
this posting.
The pattern for Blueberry
Pie is now available at our website for download.
The pattern will have all
instructions to make this lovely quilt. You can make one quilt for each of your
favorite pie flavors, Blueberry, Raspberry, Banana or whatever your favorite
flavor may be.
On to the cutting the strips…….
First I cut my fabric into 8
½” x WOF (width of fabric) strips. I layered up three cuts (6 layers) onto the
die, aligning the bottom edge of the fabric with the horizontal line on the die
and then sent it through the Go! Big
Electric Fabric Cutter to get three 2 ½” x WOF strips.
Next it on to cutting the Diamonds…..
First find the diagonal line marked 45 degrees on the die. Then
align the long side of the stacked strips with this line. Make sure that the
excess fabric with the folded edge is hanging off the left edge of the die and
the bottom of the strip (selvedge edge) is just past the right vertical line.
Cut off the excess edge with the fold just past the left vertical line. Cut off
the excess fabric with the fold. Unfold the excess strip to make another strip
to cut diamonds from. Align the strips with the 45 degree line and then sent it through the Go! Big Electric Fabric Cutter to get 45 degree diamonds. I got
nine diamonds from each strip using this method.
Then I used the Go Half-Square Triangle-2” finished Square Multiples
die (55063) to cut the top and bottom
units for the Diamond blocks as described in the pattern.
To
sew the units together…..
For
the Chevron Border you will need to sew the light diamond units in one
direction and the dark diamond units in the opposite direction. The beauty of
the 45 degree diamond is that is rotates for either direction so we do not need
to fussy cut them for each side of the chevron. You just need to rotate them as
shown in Figure 1.
Align
on 2 ½” triangle on the dark diamond as shown in Figure 2 and sew in place.
Repeat to sew a triangle to the bottom of the dark diamond to make the dark
half of the chevron unit. Repeat to make the light diamond. Sew one light
diamond unit to one dark diamond unit to make the Chevron Blocks. Easy as
Pie!!!
I
hope you enjoy this project as much as I did. I found this quilt so much easier
to make with die cut shapes. They are much more accurate than hand cut shapes
and that helped when sewing them together, it seemed like the pieces just
popped together. I found my points came out every time.
With
the die cut shapes this project is much easier to make and that makes it a nice
project perfect for advanced beginners and intermediate sewers!
I would love to see what you
come up with using this technique. Please feel free to email me your creations.
Make sure to visit my blog each
month where I will share with you some tips and tricks on cutting and
assembling of the project of the month along with posting the free pattern on
our website www.TheWhimsicalWorkshop.com You can also
see our pattern and post at www.pbtex.com and www.accuquilt.com
Happy Quilting
