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Learn to sew a beautiful square in square quilt with this handmade quilt making tutorial with steps and pictures to guide you.
Hello Everyone, I am Sachiko from over at Tea Rose Home. Today, I am sharing my square-in-square quilt tutorial ideal for quilters who love sewing quilt and making quilts for sale.
It took me over a year to decide how I wanted to finish the quilt. My daughter is so excited, finally it’s complete. Here is how I did it.
square in square quilt tutorial
Finished Handmade Quilt 27″ x 30″ (Constructed using 90 3″x3″ squares)
Material for making quilt:
I used Honey Buns from Moda, but you can make your own 1 1/2″ wide strips by the fabric’s width and use them instead. I used 36 strips to make this quilt.
Instructions to make square in square quilt:
Sort and group the strips by color
Cut 90 squares (1 1/2″x 1 1/2″) from the light color fabrics
Cut 90 squares (1 1/2″x 1 1/2″), 90 rectangles (1 1/2″x3 1/2″) and 90 rectangles (1 1/2″x2 1/2″) from the dark color fabrics
My Honey Buns had three main colors: pink, green, and blue. Since I made this quilt with 90 blocks, I made 30 pink blocks, 30 green blocks, and 30 blue blocks. When you are making this from scratch, this will make it easier to pick out the fabrics. You only need four different color schemes, one light, three darks.
Arrange the pieces together to make blocks. See the pictures for guideline. Don’t forget to press the seam after each step. It will make quite a difference on the finished quilt.
Lay all the blocks together to see how you want it to look. Sew them together first side by side.
Then row by row
Since I made this for Rachel’s room, I appliquéd her initial “R” and added small pom-poms around the edge. I machine quilted this myself.
Thanks Sachiko for the wonderful tutorial.
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Such a pretty quilt!!! I love how the R makes is personalized, but still looks super classy!! Great guest post!
How big of a quilt does this make?