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Secret Santa Sew Along

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One of my favorites and no more secrets involved.

Check out all the Secret Santa Sew Along details here. 

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you aware of the project available and hopefully

bring you a little Christmas cheer.

Secret Santa Sew Along

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

What better way to spend Black Friday than finishing

up your Secret Santa Sew along. Lets get started!

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S t e p   S i x

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

31 strips, 2-3/4" x 11-3/4"

Use diagram below to piece 5 sashing rows and 4 block rows.

Sew the rows together, quilt as desired and Enjoy!

Secret Santa Sew Along

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

96 rectangles, 2" x 2-3/4"

48 rectangles, 2-3/4" x 4-1/4"

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Using the block diagram above layout each unit in rows.

Sew units in each row together. Sew rows together.

Finishing instructions will be posted next week. 

Finished Block 11-1/4" square

11-3/4" including seam allowances

Make 12 Blocks - 11-3/4" including seam allowance

Secret Santa Sew Along

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S t e p   F o u r 

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

12 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

from a variety of red prints, cut:

12 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

Sew one light strip, 1-1/4" x 11" and one red strip, 1-1/4" x 11"

together along the length of strip. Press toward red.
Repeat with all 12 red and light strips

Sub-cut 96 | 1-1/4" units. Sew two units together 

to make 48 four patch units.
Finished block 1-1/2" square
2" square including seam allowances
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There was a finished block measurement mistake in
last week post. You can see correction here. 

Secret Santa Sew Along

S e c r e t   S a n t a   S e w   A l o n g

S t e p   T h r e e

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

6 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

12 strips, 2" x 11"

from a variety of red prints, cut:

6 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

12 strips, 2" x 11"

Using 6 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 12 red strips, 2" x 11"

make 6 red|light|red strip sets. Sub-cut into 48 | 1-1/4" units.

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Using 12 light strips, 2" x 11" and 6 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11

make 6 light|red|light strip sets.Sub-cut into 48 | 1-1/4" units
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Sew a red|light|red segment and a light|red|light together.
Repeat to make 48 units.
Finished size 1-1/2 x 3-3/4”
2” x 4-1/4" including seam allowances

Secret Santa Sew Along

S e c r e t   S a n t a   S e w   A l o n g

S t e p   T w o

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

35 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

from a variety of red prints, cut:

43 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

 

Using 17 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 34 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11"
make 17 red|light|red strip sets a shown below.
Sub-cut into 136 | 1-1/4" units.
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Using 18 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 9 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11
make 9 light|red|light strip sets (not shown)
Sub-cut into 68 | 1-1/4" units

Making strip sets is the easiest way to make multiple
block especially when they are all the same color.
For this project we will be making a variety of different
size strip sets, here are the simple steps.
1. Sew strips together along length of strip in order
outlined in each step. Example: light-red-light
2. Press seams toward the dark, being careful not to
stretch and distort the strip set.
3. Sub-cut multiple units by cutting from narrow end
of each strip set at indicated width.

Using light|dark|light units and dark|light|dark units

make 68 nine patches with dark corners. 

Finished block 2-1/4" square,

2-3/4" square including seam allowances

Secret Santa Sew Along

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S t e p   O n e

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Cutting

from a variety of green prints, cut:

48 squares, 2" x 2"

from a variety of brown prints, cut:

12 squares, 1-1/4" x 1-1/4"

from a variety of light prints, cut:

48 strips, 1-1/4" x 2"

Assembly

Arrange one brown square, 4 green squares and 4 light strips

as laid out above. Sew the units in each row together. Sew 

the rows together to make one block. The block should 

measure 4-1/4" square, including seam allowances.

Repeat to make 12 blocks.

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If you missed any details you can find them here. 

Secret Santa Sew Along

Can you keep a secret? 

We are having a Secret Santa Sew Along, follow along

and you will have a great new Christmas quilt ready to 

be quilted by Thanksgiving. If you don't like the whole

mystery thing follow along and get started once the quilt

 is revealed on Black Friday, November 23. 

Here are all the details:

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Finished Quilt 43" x 56"

Each weeks instructions will be posted on Friday mornings

You will need the following fabric quantities. Please keep

 in mind that the quilt is scrappy so yardage totals 

should be made up of a variety of prints. 

small scraps of brown prints

1/4 yard of green prints

3/4 yard of red prints

2-1/2 yards of light prints

We are not making kits for this project so dig into
your stash and be ready for the first post next Friday.

Fabrics pictured above are from my new line of fabric

Temecula Treasures for Marcus Brothers. You will be

seeing a lot more of these prints, I just can't put them

down. Temecula Treasures will be available early 2019