STEP IT UP QUILT-AS-YOU-GO TUTORIAL
Using the quilt-as-you-go technique, you can make this Step It Up quilt block! Foundation piecing is a fun quilting technique.
Servings: 0
Equipment
Ingredients
- Fabric in colors of your choice
- 14" x 14" squares batting
- 14" x 14" squares backing fabric
Instructions
- The colors used in this project are mints and grays to create a nice gradient. Needed about twice as many grays than the mint colors.The cut sizes for this block are simple. The mint strips are 2" wide and the gray strips are 1.25" wide. The length depends on each row.Start by placing a 2" x 2" square, off center and at a diagonal, right-side up, and quilt to the batting and backing fabric.
- Now you'll build your block using the technique outlined in the Big Stripes block. After the initial square, add your lightest gray strips above and below it. Then two mint pieces to the side, and another two gray pieces on the top and bottom.
- Continue this method of adding pieces until you reach your desired quilt block size! Then square it up and you're done. You’ll notice not all of the fabrics in the original selection were used. They are just used as a guide and to figure out what looks best as the project progresses.
- If you want to know how to connect these blocks (the back is ugly, so you definitely need to add another backing fabric), there are tutorials all over the internet about combining these types of blocks. I haven’t used any of them myself (I usually turn my QAYG blocks into pillows or bags), so I can’t recommend any tutorials personally.
