River Whirl Tutorial

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The weather was beautiful yesterday and I was able to take this quilt outside for some pictures. My cats don't get to go outside so I had to bring along a little stuffed kitty.

Would you like to make a quilt like this? It is so simple.

You will need:

• 15 pairs of 5 inch blocks (total of 30 blocks)
• 30 - 5 inch blocks of muslin
• 1 yard of muslin for borders
• 1/2 yd of stripe for binding

Grab a charm pack or cut up some of your stash into 5 inch squares. I used 2 charm packs of Spirograph by Benartex which only had 22 blocks - one of each print. I needed 2 blocks of each print.

Cut your blocks at the angle shown above. Take your ruler and measure over 2 inches on the bottom and 3 inches on the top, then cut all of your blocks. (in the photo above I removed the muslin off the left side so you could see the cutting line better.

Sew your pieces together as shown using a 1/4 inch seam allowance.

Press your block and then trim it to a 4.5 inch square.

Here are 4 blocks ready to be sewn together.

One block done - 14 more to go.

Now layout your blocks in the following pattern.

I made 4 rows of 3 blocks then added a 2.5 inch strip and then the last row.
Then I added 4 inch borders doing the long sides first.
The quilt finished at 30 x 46.

I had to show you this photo -it was taken in Sept. 2011 - I decided this week to do some quilting so I now have 2 quilts finally done!

I did a free motion leaf on the prints and stipple quilted the back ground. I had this little stripe fabric that I thought matched pretty good for a binding.

I just had to show one more photo, it was so great to be outside and there wasn't any wind. I am so ready for Spring!