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Make Chain and Knot Quilt Blocks
Chain and Knot Quilt Blocks

Assemble the Knot and Chain Quilt Block

© Janet Wickell
Make 30 Chain and Knot quilt blocks.

A few notes:

  • Sometimes it's best to cut just what you need for each initial strip set. Cut the rest after you've constructed one set and cut accurate units from it.
  • 42" strips refers to strips cut from selvage to selvage. Do not trim back longer strips.

Black/White Floral/Geometric Print

  • Cut eight 2-1/2" x 42" strips
  • Cut two 1-1/2" x 42" strips
  • Cut one 1-1/2" x 10" strips

White/green print "shirting" type fabric

  • Cut eight 2-1/2" x 42" strips

Black/Rust/Orange Fabric with "Capsule-like" motifs

  • Cut sixteen 2-1/2" x 42" strips

Med-light Brown Print

  • Cut eight 2-1/2" x 42" strips
  • Cut nine 1-1/2" x 42" strips

Black Print with Small Florals

  • Cut nine 1-1/2" x 42" strips

Make Strip Sets

"Capsule" Print / White & Green Print

  1. Sew a 2-1/2" x 42" "capsule print" strip to each side of a white/green print strip of the same size. Press seam allowances towards the center.
  2. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 2-1/2" segments from it as possible (16 average).
  3. Make three identical strip sets. Cut 2-1/2" segments until you have sixty. Set aside.

Brown Print / White & Green Print

  1. Sew a 2-1/2" x 42" brown print strip lengthwise to a white/green print strip of the same size. Press seam allowances towards the brown strip.
  2. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 2-1/2" segments as possible (16 average). Make three more identical strip sets; cut a total of sixty segments. Set aside.

Black / Brown Four-Patch Units

  1. Sew a black/floral 1-1/2" x 42" strip lengthwise to a brown strip of the same size. Press seam allowance towards black strip. Square up one end of the strip set and cut as many 1-1/2" segments from it as possible (27-28).
  2. Assemble additional identical strip sets. Cut 240 segments.
  3. Assemble 120 four-patch units from strip sets, arranging like colors diagonally.
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