Jennifer's Beginners Patchwork

Rectangles & Squares is designed as a beginner quilt project but is open to any level of quilter to enjoy. This ebook will cover many basics of quilting along with color, fabric selection, precise cutting, and piecing as well as have a couple of design options available to choose from.

In the first part, you will pick your fabrics and learn how to precisely cut the pieces required to make the blocks.

The second part will cover everything you need to know about building the blocks to make the center of the quilt. 

Part three will be all about turning those blocks into rows and sewing them together on-point. As well, detailed directions will be provided for making the setting triangles.

Finally, in part four you will pick the border option you want and add it to the quilt.

Come along and have some fun and see just how many options this one block has to offer.

OUTLINE

Part One

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Abbreviations and Terminology
• Fabric Selection
• Cutting the Fabrics
• Iron the fabric
• Square up the fabric
• Cutting the Single Strips
• Cutting Up The Strips
• Specialty Ruler - Shape Cut Plus
• Fabric Swatches & Legend
• Cutting Instructions
  

Part Two

• Sewing A Quarter Inch Seam
• Chain Sewing
• Pinning
• Pressing Tips
• How to press toward one side
• Pressing with a Hera Marker
• Building the Block 11

Part Three

• Layout Options
• Setting Triangles and Corner Triangles
• Cutting on the Diagonal
• Cutting Instructions
• Building the Triangles
• Laying Out the Blocks in Rows
• On-Point Version
• Square-On Version

Part Four

• Cutting Instructions
• How to attach strips together on the bias
• Adding the Inner Border
• Outer Border - Single Fabric Border
• Outer Border - Pieced
• Vertical Border - Square On Option
• Horizontal Border - On-Point Option
• Horizontal Border - Square On Option
• Adding the Outer Border
• Backing & Batting
• Quilting the Quilt
• Binding the Quilt