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As you may have surmised from my last post, the Hedgerow pattern is going to be delayed yet again by the project I'm working on this summer. I know that a lot of you liked my Scrappy Starling quilt though, so I thought I would at... See more » As you may have surmised from my last post, the Hedgerow pattern is going to be delayed yet again by the project I'm working on this summer. I know that a lot of you liked my Scrappy Starling quilt though, so I thought I would at least post a tutorial on how to make those. The finished blocks are 12" square (12.5" before they're sewn). Each block is made of two components: 3.5" squares for the center and 1.5" and 1.75" strips for the rings/square-in-squares. I think this pattern is most successful when the center squares are fussy cut from a "picture print" like the Alexander Henry Starlings print that I used. I used the same print for all of my center squares, but this quilt would be wonderful, and even scrappier, with center squares cut from a variety of different prints. (Maybe some great Japanese animal or fairy tale prints!?) I chose the fabrics for my strips based on the colors in the Starling print. To make blocks like mine -- where each ring is monochromatic -- you'll need to have no fewer than four fabrics each in at least four different colors. For more variety, you may want as many as eight or ten different prints in each color. To make an entire quilt top, you will need to cut several 1.5" wide strips and several 1.75" strips from each fabric. Strips should vary in length from 3.5" to 12.5". I didn't organize my strips by color, but I did keep one bin for 1.5" strips and one bin for 1.75" strips, so I wouldn't confuse them as I worked. I like the slight variation caused by using 1.5" and 1.75" wide strips but, if this is too fussy for you, you can definitely use all 1.75" strips for 13" finished blocks! Start your first block by choosing four same-colored 1.5" strips. Sew one strip to the top of one center square and trim, squaring up the edges. Now, sew another strip to the right side of the center square, again trimming to square everything up. Continue around the block, in a clockwise fashion, sewing a third strip to the bottom and a fourth to the left side. Now that the first "ring" is finished, gather four 1.75" wide strips in a different color to start the second. Use the same clockwise method to sew a second ring. Gather four 1.5" strips in a third color and sew yet another ring. Notice how we're alternating between the thinner and slightly wider rings. For even more variety, you can make the rings on half of your blocks in this order and the other half starting with the 1.75" strips. Finish your block by sewing a fourth ring, using 1.75" strips. That's all there is to it! A couple of notes about my quilt: My quilt included nine 12" blocks with 2" sashing between the blocks and a 3" border around the outside. The finished quilt is about 46" square. I used six different colors of strips and chose randomly which four would be in each block. I also included a solid of each color and, when placing them in blocks, I tried to be careful as I was sewing the rings to never put more than one solid on any side of the block. (See the above photo for an example.) I ended up making one extra block and used my leftover strips to make a pieced stripe on the back of the quilt. If you look closely, you can see where I pieced together smaller leftover strips to make them long enough. That's something you can do within your blocks too! If you end up making any of these blocks, I would love to see them in my Flickr Pool! See less »

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