Dawn's Light Baby Quilt Pattern

By Janet Wickell, About.com Guide

I always recommend that, no matter whose quilt pattern you are using, you begin by cutting minimal amounts of fabric, enough to make sample blocks -- read through the pattern and cut the minimum number of strips/squares, etc. Everyone makes errors, including me, even though I proof these patterns many times before publishing them.

Four Patch Blocks with Rosy Maroon Outer Bars

Cutting Instructions

Fabric A - Rosy Maroon Print

• (3) 4-1/2” wide strips cut from selvage to selvage

Fabric B – Dark Green Print

• (2) 2-1/2” wide strips cut from selvage to selvage
• (2) 2-1/2” x 18” strips

Fabric C – Light Neutral Print

• (1) 2-1/2” wide strip cut from selvage to selvage
• (1) 2-1/2” x 18” strip

Fabric D – Light Green Print

• (1) 2-1/2” wide strip cut from selvage to selvage
• (1) 2-1/2” x 18” strip

Assemble the Quilt Block

1. Sew a 2-1/2” x selvage length dark green strip lengthwise to each side of a 4-1/2” rosy maroon strip of the same length to create a long strip set. Press seam allowances towards the rosy maroon strip.

2. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 2-1/2” segments from it as possible (left illustration).

3. Cut an 18” length from one of the remaining 4-1/2” wide maroon strips. Make an identical, but shorter strip set from it and the 2-1/2” x 18” green strips. Cut additional 2-1/2” segments from the shorter strip set until you have accumulated a total of 20 segments. Set aside.

4. Cut (20) 2-1/2” x 4-1/2” rectangles from the remaining maroon strips. Set aside.

5. Sew a 2-1/2” x selvage width light neutral strip to a light green strip of the same size. Press the seam allowance towards the green strip.

6. Cut as many 2-1/2” segments from the new strip set as possible (middle illustration).

7. Sew the 2-1/2” x 18” light strip to the remaining light green strip to create another strip set. Cut addition 2-1/2” segments until you have a total of 20.

8. Sew two of the light neutral/light green segments together to assemble a small four-patch block. Like-fabrics should be diagonal to each other (top right illustration). Press seam allowance either direction.

9. Sew a 2-1/2” x 4-1/2” maroon rectangle to opposite sides of a small four-patch unit (lower right illustration). Press seam allowances towards the maroon rectangles.

10. Sew a strip-pieced segment with green corners to remaining sides of the quilt block. Press seam allowances away from the block’s center.

11. Make a total of 10 identical quilt blocks.

Previous

• Intro to the Dawn's Light Baby Quilt Pattern
• Make Ten Framed Four Patch Blocks with Rosy Maroon Outer Bars
• Make Four Quilt Blocks In Another Color Combo
• Make Six Pinwheel Quilt Blocks
• Setting Triangles, Sashing and Baby Quilt Assembly
• Quilt Block Variations

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