Attic Windows Quilt - Cut the Window Sills
Dark Sills
- Use your rotary cutting equipment to square up one end of a dark sill strip. Square up one end of each remaining dark strip.
- Beginning at a squared up end, cut bars from the strips: six that are 8-7/8" long and twenty-four that are 4-7/8" long.
- Stack the bars in groups, right side up.
- Use your rotary equipment to cut a 45-degree angle at the left squared-up end of each dark bar by aligning the ruler's 45-degree line along the long edge of the strip, with the angle of the ruler exactly at the strip's end. The cut will look very much like the cut you make when you cut a right triangle--except there's extra fabric left at the opposite end.
Be sure to cut the angle as shown in the illustration.
Light Sills
- Square up your light strips on one end and cut thirty 4-7/8" long bars.
- Cut a 45-degree angle at one end of each light bar, but make sure the cut is a mirror image of the dark sill as shown in the illustration above.
Mark Sill Seam Intersections
- Turn the sills over and mark each 1/4" inward from the angled edge and from the shortest edge to find the intersection of the seam line. Use a pencil or temporary marker.
It's easy to mark the spot with a rotary ruler. Just place the ruler inward exactly 1/4" on each edge and mark near the end. The spot you're looking for is where the two lines intersect.
