Clean and crisp for Christmas! Tis single bed quilt is a beauty with fabric from Moda, designed by Sweetwater, Countdown to Christmas. Our designer provides big open squares make for great quilting and big setting triangles a quick study for sewing on the bias.
Design: Christmas Moss Designer: Stacey Carey Quilter: Beryl Cadman of Custom Quilting Finished Block Size: 17½” (44.5cm) Square Finished Quilt Size: 73½” x 99” (186.69cm x 251cm) Level:
Note Please read the entire pattern carefully before cuting and sewing. Seam allowances are ¼” throughout. Fat quarter is based on 24” x 18”. HST means half square triangle. QST means quarter square triangle.
MATERIALS
24 fat quarters of colours for blocks ⅞yd (.8m) cream for border 1⅜yd (1.48m) print for corner triangles and setting triangles border 4⅝yd (5m) cream colour for background
CUTTING
72 7½” cream squares 36 5¼” cream squares for QSTs 72 2¾” x 4⅛” cream cut in half diagonally for 144 pieces 72 print Diagram A 36 5¼” print squares for QSTs 18 4½” solid squares 2 13⅝” print squares cut in half diagonally for four corner triangles
10 9⅞” squares print with cream background cut in half diagonally for 20 triangles
10 9⅞” print squares cut in half diagonally for 20 triangles
Quarter Square Triangles (QSTs)
QSTs are created by first sewing Half Square Triangles (HSTs). 1. Using a 5¼” cream square and a 5¼” print square, mark a diagonal line on the wrong side of the medium square. 2. Pair cream with print, and with right sides together, sew ¼” on both sides of the line. Cut on the drawn line. Press open toward the cream fabric. D2 Repeat for a total of 72 HSTs. Repeat for a total of 72 HSTs.