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Share My Heart Quilt - Sunbonnet Sue & Overalls Sam with Patchwork Quilt Blocks

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Make the Patchwork Quilt Blocks - Sue & Sam Chains

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Assemble the Pieced Quilt Blocks

© Janet Wickell
Strip piecing helps the Share My Heart quilt go together fairly quickly.

Make Strip-pieced Bar Units

Bar units, made from a light fabric and a dark fabric, surround the quilt block's center square.

  1. Sew a light striped 1-3/4" x 42" fabric strip lengthwise to a chocolate brown strip of the same size. Press seam allowance towards the chocolate strip.

  2. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 5-1/2" segments from it as possible (seven minimum).

  3. Make additional identical strip sets until you have a total of seventy-two bar units.

Make Strip-pieced Four Patch Units

Four-patch units are in block corners.

  1. Sew a mauve/pink 1-3/4" x 42" fabric strip lengthwise to a neutral swirled strip of the same size. Press seam allowance towards the mauve/pink strip.

  2. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 1-3/4" segments from it as possible (twenty-four if strips are slightly longer than 42").

  3. Make additional identical strip sets until you have a total of one-hundred-forty-four units.

  4. Sew two 1-3/4" segments together as shown, with like-fabrics diagonal from each other. Press. Repeat to make a total of seventy-two four patch units.

Assemble the Quilt Block

  1. Arrange four bar units, four four-patch units and one 5-1/2" square as shown to form three rows. Check color placement carefully.

  2. Sew components in each row together. Press seam allowances towards bar units.

  3. Sew rows together, butting seam intersections for a perfect match. Press. The block should measure 10-1/2" x 10-1/2".

  4. Repeat to make a total of eighteen patchwork blocks.

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