Simply Houndstooth

Wow I have been working hard on this and more pictures to come once I figure out how to get them off my phone. I'm posting my first pattern on crasfty! I'm so excited even though I am just getting my feet wet with this first small pattern. It's also free! I love free and am happy to share this with you. Last year I posted about how to put together a baby houndstooth quilt and I really wanted a fresh update on this.
If there are any questions about this pattern please ask I would love to help.

Here are some more pictures of my finished product. enjoy!

Thanks for reading♥ Olivia

A baby hounds-tooth quilt

Lately it seems everyone is having a baby. I usually try to have some small quilts on hand, at least one girly and one neutral or boy made from my scraps. This time however with several girls in the works I needed to make some quilts fast. I did a quick sketch and pulled some fat quarter bundles from my stash that were reserved for just this occasion.

To make the hounds-tooth pattern you need 2 or 4 fabrics, this is for my easy version I have seen quilts with more but it would take some care and planning.
Next you'll cut 2¾" strips I used one fat quarter of each fabric (make sure you have enough to cut out matching 6½" squares).

 Next sew pairs of strips together...

 Iron them open...

 Now sew these two strip sets together. Sew on both sides to create a fabric tube.

Next we cut our 6½" squares. One way to do this is with your regular square ruler. using the diagonal line down the middle you can place that on your stitch line and cut.

 Or if you have the quilt in a day 6½" triangle square up ruler it works perfectly.

From the fat quarters I got 3 blocks from every "4 strip set" giving me a total of 18 blocks from my 4 fat quarters. As you can see below from that strip set two of my blocks are identical and one is different you'll need equal amounts of each block type to complete the quilt.

To get equal amounts you simply need to flip your strip set over so for example fabrics A and B are on the top for half of the triangles you cut and fabrics C and D are on the top for the other half. We have to do this because the fat quarters only give us 3 blocks per set since it's an odd number  we have to flip the set to make it even. If you are working with yards of fabric you might get 4-6 blocks out of your set and need not worry. I would open up your blocks and make stacks to ensure you have a even amount.

 Next I cut 6½" squares out of my four fabrics with the other fat quarter bundle. You can get 6 squares from each fat quarter.

I used only 4 squares from two of the fabrics and 5 squares from the other two fabrics below is what I had left.

Here's my layout. As you turn your stripey squares and match up your fabrics the design easily begins to fall into place.

And here's the finished quilt! This ended up being 34"square.

 Here's how the back turned out. I ended up using those leftover squares plus some other additional fabrics to create this pieced back.

Thanks for reading♥ Olivia

Oregon State Blanket, Go Beavers!

Here's the quilt I made for my friend who's gonna be a first time Grandma. Cutting out the squares with the logos took some time and is always a little frustrating as these grid patterns are never exactly square. I usually avoid these types of fabrics since they have gotten me in the past but I liked the varying logos and sizes. The backing is fleece which I haven't worked with before. It actually quilted quite nicely, I was mostly worried about bunching up. I'm so happy to be done, on time. I always get a little stressed with a time crunch ahead so now that this project is out of the way it will be happy leisure sewing from here on out.

Thanks for reading♥