Nine Patch Table Topper Quilt Pattern - Picking Background Fabric

Part Three

Background fabric

The best way is to.....just lay it all out 

This purple paisley is the one I thought would work?

NO.

Rust

Darker, deeper purple

WHICH ONE ?

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I went with the rust color, border, not liking.

Cut 4 Squares - 2 3/4" x 2 3/4"

Cut 4 Squares - 3 1/4" x 3 1/4" Cut from Corner to Corner Half Triangles
these are your edge triangles

Cut 1 Squares - 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" 
Cut from Corner to Corner and again
Cut from Corner to Corner  Quarter Triangles 

TIP:

When cutting your corners and side triangles, I always cut them 1/2" to 3/4" larger then needed. Fabric does not stretch and I just cut it down.

Next Sewing center together

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9-Patch Table Topper Quilt Pattern Part 2

 With cutting finished it's time to sew

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With smaller blocks:

Use the same 1/4" seam allowance you always do.

After sewn, cut the seam allowance down. 

I like to press my seams on the center row to the outside,
and the top/bottom rows to the inside. This is the way, I like to do it, but as long as they are opposite?? it's all good. 

I pin everything, again, use a 1/4" seam allowance
and cut it down or in half.

 All the bottom

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Trim seam allowance

Press on the back and front both

Finished block

Each block has a finished size of 2 1/4" x 2 1/4"

Do these steps 9 TIMES

Stop back in a few days !

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Let's Quilt Together Pattern Quilted Table Topper

Over the next couple of days,
 I'll be sharing a 15" x 15" Table Topper

I've used a 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" Charm Packet

Laying out colors, scrappy but not too scrappy.

I'm doing Organized Scrappy !

Cut square in half and then in half again

or 

Cut 81 - 1 1/4" x 1 1/4 squares.

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Lay them out and "LIKE" their placement before sewing, you will need 9 - nine patch blocks

Do this and stop back for: 

 how to piece the blocks

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Quilters Triangles, How To Make with Triangles with Seven-Eighth Inch Squares

The next step is the triangle. Just like the square if you are not ready to purchase a rotary cutter and mat. You will need to make a freezer paper pattern.  How to do Square's HERE

Take the FINISHED size of the square you want and add 7/8 of an inch.
example:
for a finished size 2 inch square you will cut your fabric 2 7/8" x 2 7/8"
for a finished size 3 inch square you will cut your fabric 3 7/8" x 3 7/8"
for a finished size 4 inch square you will cut your fabric 4 7/8" x 4 7/8"

And so on, either make you freezer paper pattern or up with a rotary cutter and ruler.

I've used a 3 inch FINISHED Square cut 3 7/8" x 3 7/8"

A light and a dark.

On the Wrong side of the light fabric draw a line from corner to corner.

This is the cutting line NOT sewing line

On your sewing machine sew a straight seam, 1/4" from the line.

Turn and do the same thing on the other side.

(when I have many to sew, I do chain piecing, one right after another, not stopping the machine until all finished and then turn and do the other side)

If NEW do them one at a time.

Cut on the drawn Cutting line.

You have 2 triangles

Open them up and 2 triangles

Press your seam to the dark fabric and trim the end tail off.

This is your finished triangle


GIVE IT A TRY.... IT'S NOT HARD.

I recently posted a block on Facebook and there was a lot of take about points.

Here's how I do it.

Pieced together a triangle to a block

Added this as a strip to another piece.  Pin as much as you need, check as you pin to make sure

you have the 1/4 seam allowance. 

On this seam I had to move the needle in just 2 threads to make the point perfect.

Press the fabric 

The point.   bethanndoing.com

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