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Garden Fence Quilt - Piecing the Blocks

8/6/2013

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Now that all of the center squares are sewn and the outer ring pieces are ready to be attached, we can complete all the blocks for the quilt top.
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As I mentioned in the Garden Fence Quilt Planning post, each green and blue fabric in my quilt will be used for three center squares and three outer rings.  Once I was ready to piece the blocks together, it’s time to put them all on the design wall and decide which inner square fabrics I want to pair with which outer ring fabrics.
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Similar to how we sewed the sashing to the center squares, sew the outer ring pieces to the center squares.  For these I did pin them to keep everything from shifting.  First sew on the side (shorter) pieces:
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Then sew on the top and bottoms.  Press and you have a completed block.
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Notice how on my block the top and bottom pieces came out longer than the sides?  They shouldn’t have done that.  Either I didn’t cut the pieces out precisely, or my seam allowances weren’t exactly a quarter inch.  But that’s ok – since we are making a quilt with square blocks, it’s more important that they are all the same size than it is to have them come out the perfect size.  After I pieced all the blocks, I measured them all to see what the smallest size blocks were (10” x 10” in my case) and then I squared up all blocks and trimmed them to that size.
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Once they’re trimmed, you should have 30 completed quilt blocks ready to assemble into a quilt top!
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See all Garden Fence Quilt posts:
  • Planning
  • Cutting
  • Initial Piecing
  • Putting the Blocks together
  • Assembling the top
  • Quilting
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