Purchased the Helena Quilt PDF pattern for this quilt from The Fat Quarter Shop . I wanted to use fabric from my stash to create this quilt and ordered a few other fabrics from Water Girl Quilt Co.
The pattern is made with one of GE Gudrun's quilt rulers but, it does give brief instructions if using a regular ruler. Here are the rulers I ended up using but I'm sure most quilters can improvise with what they have on hand.
I picked a variety of fabrics - mostly small print, some light, some dark. Background fabric is Kona Snow
Cut squares out of prints and background, then cut into specified pieces. Easily done with the rulers I had.
Next, sections are pieced together. Diagrams in the pattern are clear.
When it came to cutting these pieces, she only gave directions for her ruler. So I placed my 1 1/4" line from tip to tip on the square, and cut. Then I placed my 2 1/2" line along that cut piece and cut again. Giving a 2 1/2" section with 2 'wings'.
Sewing the sections together to form a nice point was done by making a mark at the 1/4" line at the seam of each piece. I placed a pin through the marks on both pieces, and then secured with clips to keep in place. No instructions were given for this in the pattern.
Once 2 wings were attached, block is squared. Again no directions, but I put the 2 1/2" lines on the seams and kept the diagonal line on the center of the diagonal piece.
Arranging blocks on my design board.
I added a 4" grey print border to the quilt to bring it to a 56" by 74" quilt top size. The print was Thatched Gray by Robin Pickens.
I pieced together a backing, having flying geese as an insert between the grey backing fabric for contrast.
Quilted on diagonals with my Bernina and a walking foot.
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Quilt size 56 x 74
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