Burlap Brights Block Hop: Day 6

Welcome to the sixth day of our Burlap Brights Block Hop! We hope you'll enjoy the eleven block tutorials our designing friends will be sharing here this week and next. Be sure to stop by each day to see a new block and have a chance to win some Burlap Brights for yourself!

Today, Benartex's design team is sharing a block made using all six of the rainbow colors. You can't help but smile when you look at these cheery brights! Check out the tutorial and then at the bottom of the post, find out how you can enter for a chance to win a fat quarter bundle of the six Burlap Brights prints featured in our hop.

Here's our block, with purple serving as the background color. The design is a mirror image on the diagonal line, with color placement giving it an unsymmetrical appearance. The block is simple to make--just squares and HSTs--but we think you'll love the pattern it makes when it's repeated in a quilt!

Here's the block in black and white: 

We used a different color for every other diagonal row, with purple in the rows in between. You could try other color combinations as well!

Cutting:

Red: (1) 3-1/2" square

Orange: (1) 4" square

Yellow: (2) 4" squares

Green: (3) 3-1/2" squares

Blue: (1) 4" square

Purple: (4) 4" squares and (4) 3-1/2" squares

1. Pair each 4" purple square with a 4" square of a different color. (Note: If you want to avoid trimming the finished HSTs, start with 3-7/8" squares instead. Personally, we like the extra wiggle room for squaring up that the larger 4" squares provide!)

2. Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of the lighter square in each pair. 

3. Pair each marked square right sides together with a purple square and stitch 1/4" on either side of the marked line. Cut apart on the marked line.

4. Press the HST unit open. Trim to measure 3-1/2" square. Repeat for remaining 4" square pairs to make 3-1/2" square HST units. You'll have two orange/purple HSTs, four yellow/purple HSTs, and two blue/purple HSTs.

5. Lay out the HSTs and 3-1/2" red, green and purple squares as shown.

6. Sew the units into horizontal rows. Make sure to alternate your pressing direction in each row so the seams will nest nicely when you sew the rows together.

7. Join the rows to complete the block.

Would you like to see what this block looks like in a quilt? 

Here's a digital rendering of 20 squares laid out. 

For a chance to win your own rainbow bundle of Burlap Brights, make sure you're signed up to follow our blog (through a blog reader or by email; both options are in the right hand sidebar). Leave a comment letting us know that you are and tell us which Burlap Brights color you like best (you can see the entire collection here). 

Make sure you check out each day's tutorial!

Day 1: Chris from made by ChrissieD

Day 2: Mary from Mary on Lake Pulaski

Day 3: Alison from Little Bunny Quilts

Day 4: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts

Day 5: Kristen from KD Quilts 
Day 7: Stephanie from Stitched Together Studios
Day 8: Julie from The Crafty Quilter
Day 9: Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework
Day 10: Jessica from Quilty Habit 

To see the entire schedule, click here.