Made in Cherry Quilt Along - let's get cutting!

Today's the big day!  Are your fabric stacks ready?  New blade in the cutter?  The perfect playlist on your ipod?  Alright then, let's cut!!!

These instructions are for the 80" quilt.  I'll post at the end with the dimensions for the alternate sizes.

If you're working from yardage:

From each of the fabrics for the star cut:
3 strips 4½" by the width of the fabric.  Cross cut these into 4 ½" squares.
1 strip 4 7/8" by the width of the fabric.  Cross cut these into 4 7/8" squares.  Select 20 of these squares and cut on the diagonal to yield 40 triangles.

A few tips:
Because we'll be working with bias edges with our triangles, it's a great idea to pull out your spray starch and give your fabric a nice going over with it.  My recipe is here if you want to give it a try.

I often find that I goof up when cutting the same size square over and over.  So I've put some painters tape on my ruler near the 4½" mark.  This is really helping me hit the same guide everytime.  And since I used painters tape it won't leave any residue.  If you have a stash of it, washi tape is great for this, too.

If you're working from scraps:

For the star squares you'll need to cut 180 4½" squares.
For the star triangles you'll need to cut 20 4 7/8" squares, then cut them on the diagonal to yield 40 triangles.



I'm using mostly scraps, so on my ruler I've used tape to mark off my 4½" square.  It makes it so easy to tell if a scrap is big enough.

Ok, that's it for this week.  Cut cut cut!  Next Friday we'll start sewing our star together!  And we'll be cutting our background fabric a bit later.  This way it doesn't have a chance to fray as we work on the star, and it gives everyone (ok, me) a little time to finalize their fabric choice.

the stack I'm working from, I'm going for a monotone kind of thing

60" x 60"

From each of the fabrics for the star cut:
2 strips 3½" by the width of the fabric.  Cross cut these into 3½" squares.
1 strip 3 7/8" by the width of the fabric.  From these strips cut 20 3 7/8" squares.  Cut the squares on the diagonal to yield 40 triangles.  Trim the remaining strips to 3½" width.  Cut these into 3½" squares.

If you're working from scraps:

For the star squares you'll need to cut 180 3½" squares.

For the star triangles you'll need to cut 20 3 7/8" squares, then cut them on the diagonal to yield 40 triangles.

90" x 90"

Cut in the same way as the 80" quilt, but for the squares cut 5" strips and the triangles 5 3/8" strips.


I can't to see how everyone's doing, so don't forget about the flickr group, and if you blog about the quilt along, link up here too!

happy cutting, 
c
 

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