Pattern for personal use only. No electronic or printed reproduction permitted without the prior written consent of Meredith Corporation. ©Meredith Corporation 2018. All rights reserved.

Designer Sarah Maxwell and Dolores Smith of Homestead Hearth (homesteadhearth.com)

So Many Squares

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materials1 21⁄2 yards total assorted tan

prints (quilt top)

1 21⁄2 yards total assorted cream prints (quilt top)

1 3 yards total assorted red prints (quilt top)

1 7 yards total assorted dark prints in black, blue, gold, and brown (quilt top)

1 7⁄8 yard brown print (binding)

1 10 yards backing fabric

1 119" square batting

Finished quilt: 1103⁄4" square (king-size with 17" drop)

Yardages and cutting instructions are based on 42" of usable fabric width.Measurements include 1⁄4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.

cut fabricsCut pieces in the following order.

From assorted tan prints, cut:1 144—23⁄4" squaresFrom assorted cream prints and remaining assorted tan prints, cut:1 576—23⁄4" squaresFrom assorted red prints, cut:1 121—23⁄4" squaresFrom assorted dark prints and remaining assorted red prints, cut:1 1,560—23⁄4" squaresFrom brown print, cut:1 11—21⁄2×42" binding strips

Designer Sarah Maxwell used more than 150 fabrics, pulling from her collection of reproduction print fat quarters, for So Many Squares. From each fat quarter she cut two or three 23⁄4"-

wide strips, then cut the strips into 23⁄4" squares, which created 14 to 21 squares per fat quarter. (For a less scrappy quilt, cut five or six 23⁄4"-wide strips from each fat quarter.) Sarah stashed the

fat quarter remainders to use in other projects. Before stitching, she laid out all rows to make sure no print was next to itself.

ABOUT THE

Quilt

Kit To order a kit of similar fabrics for quilt top and binding for $197.40

ppd. (Missouri residents, $212.77 ppd.), contact Homestead Hearth, 105 N. Coal St., Mexico, MO 65265; 573/581-1966; homesteadhearth.com.

What’s better than squares? How about squares that form squares! In this quilt, a plethora of 1800s reproduction prints unite in a king-size Square-in-a-Square design.

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QUILT ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM

APQ DECEMBER 2014CMR Super Scrappy SquaresQuilt Assembly DiagramC. Neubauer 7-16-14100547322

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QUILTING DIAGRAM

APQ DECEMBER 2014CMR Super Scrappy SquaresQuilt Assembly DiagramC. Neubauer 7-16-14100547323

Making just the first three portions of the Square-in-a-Square design results in a 521⁄4"-square wall hanging. Quilt tester Laura Boehnke used a breathtaking assortment of batiks, beginning with warm colors then moving to cool. “Instead of making my quilt scrappy, I added order by making every round in one color,” Laura says. The final product resembles a vibrant rainbow-color firework.

FABRICS are from the Primo Batiks: Aurora & Twilight collection by Marcus Fabrics (marcusfabrics.com).

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assemble quilt top1. Referring to Quilt Assembly Diagram for color placement, lay out assorted print 23⁄4" squares in 49 horizontal rows of 49 squares each. In the featured quilt, tan and cream prints form the outer diamond, tan prints form the inner diamond, and red prints form the center square. Assorted dark and red prints fill the remaining areas.

2. Sew together squares in each row. Press seams in one direction, alternating direction with each row. Join rows to complete quilt top. Press seams in one direction.

finish quilt1. Layer quilt top, batting, and backing; baste. (For details, see Complete Quilt, page 122.)

2. Quilt as desired. Connie Gresham machine-quilted an allover paisley

design across the quilt top (Quilting Diagram).

3. Bind with brown print binding strips. (For details, see Complete Quilt.) î