Burlap Brights Block Hop: Day 7

Welcome to the seventh 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, Stephanie Sheridan of Stitched Together Studios her wonky block design. 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.

Hi, I am Stephanie from Stitched Together Studios. For as long as I can remember there has been a sewing studio in my house. Having grown up with a quilting mom (professional long-arm quilter Linda Kroeger Leathersich) fiber arts has always been a part of my life. After Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh in 2009, my mom and I became business partners. Mom (an award-winning long-arm quilter, quilt maker and teacher) and I (quilt maker, designer and pattern writer) launched our joint business venture “Stitched Together Studios.” We have designed over 150 quilts for Benartex in the last 6 years and love every minute of our job (well, maybe not every minute … but most of them!).

OK … enough about me … on to the tutorial!

I love everything about these fabrics and decided to do something a little out of the box (for me at least). I tend towards symmetry and order in my quilt design, so creating this slightly wonky block with some improvisational cutting was a bit of a challenge (you don’t even want to know how many test blocks I made!). It ended up being a modern abstract Picasso-esque block. Please enjoy my “Abstract Rainbow”!

Tools:

Sewing Machine, Iron, Ironing Surface, Scissors, Cutting Mat, Rotary Cutter, a 4-1/2” ruler and a 

6-1/2” ruler (I like the Creative Grids ones!)

Cutting:

From the Blue and Red FQ cut: 

(1) 3” square, (1) 3-1/2” X 4-1/2” rectangle, and (1) 3-1/2” X 7-1/2” rectangle

From the Green and Orange FQ cut: 

(1) 3” X 3-1/2” rectangle, (1) 3-1/2” X 4-1/2” rectangle, (1) 3-1/2” X 6” rectangle, and (1) 2-1/2” X 7-1/2” rectangle

From the Purple and Yellow FQ cut: 

(1) 3” square, (1) 3” X 3-1/2” rectangle, and (1) 3-1/2” X 6” rectangle

Step 1:

Sew the following pieces together:

BLOCK 1: Red 3” to Yellow 3” X 3-1/2”, press, then add Yellow 3-1/2” X 6”

BLOCK 2: Yellow 3” to Orange 3-1/2”, press, then add Orange 3-1/2” X 6”

BLOCK 3: Blue 3” to Purple 3-1/2”, press, then add Purple 3-1/2” X 6”

BLOCK 4:  Purple 3” to Green 3-1/2”, press, then add Green 3-1/2” X 6”

Step 2:

Lay the 4 blocks on your cutting mat and get out your 4-1/2” ruler. Trim the 4 blocks as shown – tilting your ruler to the right for Blocks 1 and 2, and to the left for blocks 3 and 4. The degree of tilt is totally up to you – this is where the “improvisational cutting” comes in to play.

Step 3:

Sew the following pieces to the 4-1/2” squares:

BLOCK 1: Orange 3-1/2” X 4-1/2”, press, then add Orange 3-1/2” X 7-1/2”

BLOCK 2: Red 3-1/2” X 4-1/2”, press, then add Red 3-1/2” X 7-1/2”

BLOCK 3: Green 3-1/2” X 4-1/2”, press, then add Green 3-1/2” X 7-1/2”

BLOCK 4:  Blue 3-1/2” X 4-1/2”, press, then add Blue 3-1/2” X 7-1/2”

Step 4:

Lay the 4 blocks on your cutting mat and get out your 6-1/2” ruler. Trim the 4 blocks as shown – tilting your ruler to the right. Once again - the degree of tilt is totally up to you! 

Step 5:

Sew blocks together.

I hope that you enjoy making my Abstract Rainbow Block! 

Thanks Stephanie! 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 two Burlap Brights colors you'd pair together (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 6: Benartex design team
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.