Notice the quilted king-size pillow shams in the back? I made them last year and they are out of muslin. When you have leftover blocks, make a pillow! Both pillows use a 16-inch pillow form and have muslin on the back.Īnother beautiful pillow with different fabric strips. I always love pillows as they are fast to make and a lot easier to free-motion quilt! If I happen to run out our Walmart carries fabric and they have a brand of muslin that I like. I have never actually bought any online as I usually buy it at JoAnn’s with a 50% off coupon. I use a premium grade muslin, permanent press, and pre-shrunk. A couple of people asked about the muslin. I love using muslin in my quilts I love the old-fashioned look of it and it is affordable. If you are looking for an easy way to attach your quilt binding, look at my machine binding tutorial. I sewed it to the front side of my quilt after quilting and then I machine stitched it down. I only do bias binding on a quilt with curved edges. It is a straight edge binding, not a bias. Binding the quiltįor my binding, I cut some of the strips into smaller pieces and also added some leftover pieces for a completely scrappy binding. I bought 2 jelly rolls so I could use the fabrics for a border…I just sewed strips together and added them around the sides. I don’t recommend using the 2 1/2 inch strips pieces for a border….it stretched because of the bias edges on the blocks. There was some stretching when I quilted it and the borders didn’t lay perfectly flat but after washing and drying it looks pretty good. The back is muslin and I used Warm & Natural for the batting. I actually used only 21 of the strips from the 2nd jelly roll for the blocks since I have 20 blocks. One jelly roll – using 39 strips will give you 13 large blocks and you will have 13 small blocks leftover that could be used for another project or you could mix and match them. This design takes 80 small strip blocks – 4 to each large block design equals 20 blocks for this quilt. The quilt size is approximately 72 x 88 before adding the borders. One will have 2 muslin strips with 1 print strip in the center.One will have 2 print strips with 1 muslin strip in the center.The strips are cut the width of the fabric and are about 40 inches long.Įdit: I used yardage of muslin for the quilt – I just figured it out and it takes 4 and 1/4 yd – every tube uses 3 – 2 1/2 inch strips (7 1/2 inches) – you will have lots of odd pieces at the ends that can be used for other projects. I used a premium muslin for my solid color. I used 2 jelly rolls that had 40 strips in them for my projects but you could also cut your own 2½-inch strips of fabrics in your stash. 4 ¼ yards of muslin or a neutral fabric.Batik fabrics really look beautiful in this easy to make string quilt pattern.ĭownload a PDF of this post from my free resource library (get the password to the library in the form at the bottom of this post). Here is my tutorial on how to make Petunia Strings by the River quilt. You could make this quilt many times and they would all look different and beautiful! Using 2½-inch fabric strips for a quilt is always so much fun and depending on the fabrics you use, it will always look different.
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