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Monday, June 16, 2014

S'more Rows.10 Rows & Borders

Assembling the top!

Are you as excited as I am?  At this point you should have 11 strips of fabric, some pieced, some not, that are 60 1/2" long.
You know what to do!!  Go for it.
EEEEEEEK!  We are in the home stretch.  Measure your top.  It should be close to 60 1/2" x 72 1/2".
For your borders you will need to cut the following pieces...
  • From inner border fabric (I used Bella Evergreen SKU#9900-234)
    • cut 7, 1 1/2" x wof strips
    • cut 4, 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" squares
  • From outer border fabric (I used Cars on Cream from the S'more Love line  SKU #37071-11)
    • My choice was directional
      • Cut 4, 5 1/2" x wof strips
      • Cut 2, 5 1/2" x 62 1/2" - fussy cut along stripe
    • Otherwise
      •  Cut  7, 5 1/2" x wof strips
  • Attach inner border -
    • Gather 7, 1 1/2" x wof strips
    • Sew 2 sets of 2,  1 1/2" x wof strips together along the 1 1/2" edge.
    • Iron seam allowance open.
    • Attach to long sides of quilt top.
    • Iron seam allowances towards the border fabric.
    • Trim
    • Cut 1, 1 1/2" x wof strip in half so that you have 2 1 1/2" x 22-ish" pieces.
    • Sew 2 sets of 1 1/2" x wof + 1 1/2" x 22-ish" strips together along the 1 1/2" edge/
    • Irons seam allowances open.
    • Attach to short sides of quilt top.  (If they are too short add the pieces that you trimmed off the long edges until they fit.)
    • Iron seam allowances towards the border fabric.
    • Trim
  • Attach outer border -
    • Gather
      • 4, 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" squares inner border fabric
      • 5 1/2" x wof strips outer border fabric
    • Measure quilt top.
      • Record dimensions here: ________ x ________
    • Assemble 2 sets of 5 1/2" x wof strips making them 5 1/2" x the length of your quilt.
    • Attach to long edges of quilt.
    • Iron seam allowances towards outer border.
    • Assemble 2 sets of 5 1/2" x wof strips making them 5 1/2" x the width of your quilt as recorded above.
    • Add a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" square to each end
      • Iron seam allowances towards the outer border fabric.
    • Attach pieced units to the top and bottom of your top.
    • Iron seam allowances towards the outer border.



Congratulations!!

You now have a completed S'more Rows quilt top.  Take a picture of it and share it with me on my Tops to Treasures Flickr stream.

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