Cut Baby Quilt Fabric
- Cut twenty 4-1/2" squares of fabric for blocks.
- Prepare your fabric and cut eight 2-1/2" wide strips across the fabric's crosswise grain to use for sashing.
- Cut four 3" wide strips across the fabric's crosswise grain to use for borders.
Sew the Baby Quilts
- Place a sashing strip right side up at your sewing machine. Align a square right side down along the strip's right edge and sew it to the long strip, beginning just past the selvage.
- Stop sewing long enough to position a second square a bit past the first and sew. Continue sewing squares to the strip until you've covered the entire usable strip length.
- Take your pieced unit to the ironing board and press the seams towards the squares. If squares are lighter than sashing, press towards the sashing.
- Continue piecing and trimming squares until all have sashing on one edge.
- Move to your cutting table and cut the units apart. Align a rotary ruler along a square, aligning rules on the cutter with the side and bottom edges of the square and letting it extend past the sashing. Trim through both. Look back at the photo of Sophie trimming units on page 3.
- Use the same technique to sew sashing to either the top or bottom edge of the units, creating an "L" shaped sashing around the square. Be consistent so that blocks are alike.
- Trim the second sashing to create the finished blocks. Arrange them on a design wall or table, then sew together into rows. Sashing should separate all blocks and appear on two sides of the quilt top.
- Press seam allowances in adjoining rows in opposite directions. Sew rows together.
- Trim and sew sashing strips to the two remaining sides of the quilt.
- Sew butted borders around each side.
- Sandwich the quilt with backing and batting. Quilt and bind.
