Monday Making with a tutorial

Here's my finished baby quilt.

Borders added and READY to be quilted!

I love how all these mostly solid fabrics

melted together in this quilt.

The bright oranges

and springy yellows REALLY make it a happy quilt.

Here's a short tutorial on the block I used.

I began with a variety of strips.

1" - 3" wide.....

(You know I LOVE stringy quilts)

I sewed some together....

and trimmed each set of strips to 6" x 6"

Then I cut some 6" solids for the corners.

 TWO solid squares for EACH block.

I used 1/2 white and 1/2 a variety of colors.

I cut each of these solids in half diagonally.

First I attached a triangle to each side.

One way to align them is to mark very lightly 

in the center of each piece.

After attaching triangles to TWO sides....

I added triangles to the other sides

and trimmed the excess.

I pressed and SQUARED them up to 9" x 9".

My baby quilt used 12 of these blocks.

In this quilt, I also added a 3" border.

Everything went together SO quickly!

What are YOU making this week???