BEAR MOUNTAIN QUILT-AS-YOU-GO
This mountain-inspired quilt-as-you-go tutorial is a fun quilt block perfect for a mountain nursery or any woodland decor!
Servings: 0
Ingredients
- Fabric in shades of gray and blue
- 17" X 17" Piece of batting
- 17" X 17" Muslin or other backing fabric
- Coordinating thread
Instructions
- Note: The Birch Organic bear fabric is not in production anymore, but Spoonflower has tons of amazing bear options!Start by cutting a triangle of your lightest gray-scale fabric. This triangle was about 4" on each side, but you can really start with whatever size you want. Place it right-side up on your stacked batting and backing fabric.
- Then quilt it directly to the batting/backing. The lines are about 1/2" apart for this project, but again, you can do any free-motion quilting style you'd like.
- 2.5" strips were used for this block and were cut as needed so fabric wouldn't be wasted. Place your next strip of slightly-darker gray directly on top of your triangle, right-side down, with the bottom edges matching up.
- Stitch 1/8" along the bottom of the two pieces of fabric. Then open up and iron the bottom piece away from the triangle. Quilt it to the batting/backing like you did with the first piece.At this point, draw some mountain-shaped lines with a disappearing ink marker so you that you will know how long to cut the pieces.
- Then continue to work your way down the "mountain" with wider and wider pieces being sewn to the batting/backing.
- Instead of stitching over the bears, do two lines of quilting above and below them.
- Then it's time to do the "sky." You'll use the same method you used to make the mountain, starting with the darkest blue fabrics and working toward the edges.
- Then keep going until you are done! Square up your block to be 16.5" x 16.5" and you're done! Because it's not a particularly precise method of quilting, you might find your block is a little wonky. And that's OK!
