Hello everyone, Michelle here! Hope you're having a great Autumn so far. I'm very busy at the moment with the holidays coming up and I'm sure all of you are too, so here's an easy block to end out the year! The pattern I'm requesting is a 8 inch 16-patch block using hot pink and any color of your choice.
Since this is a smaller/simpler block, please make me four of these blocks, but don't sew them together so I can mix and match them later! You can make four using the same fabrics or do different ones for each block, your choice.
Size: 8.5" unfinished (8" finished)
Fabric + color requirements: Pretty much any type of fabric is okay. Solids, batik, prints including novelty, licensed characters, text and holiday - whatever! The only type of print I'd like you to avoid is anything religious.
Color A: Hot pink/magenta/fuschia. If you don't have this color in your stash, red or purple will work okay too. Here are some examples:
Color B: Any color you want except white or black (gray is fine)!
You will need one 20" by 2.5" strip of each color for each block, though you may want to cut slightly longer strips if you'd like some wiggle room. A great opportunity to use up a random leftover jelly roll strip!
If you'd rather go scrappy, I'm fine with that too as long the block still reads as a checkerboard of two colors (so if you use scraps for Color B, please make them all med-dark blue for example as opposed to a mix of different colors).
Instructions:
Cut a 20" by 2.5" inch strip of both colors:
Sew the strips together along the long sides:
Cut the new strip into two 10" pieces and sew together along the long sides, making sure the colors alternate. You'll want to press all the seams in the same direction to make it easier to nest seams later:
Subcut into four 2.5" sections:
Rotate two of the sections 180 degrees to form the checkerboard pattern:
Sew the sections together into a 16-patch block, press, and trim to 8.5 inches:
Now just make 3 more using the same process, and you're done! Thank you and can't wait to see what color combos everyone picks!
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