Sassy Sunflower Half Pack Quilts - Tips and Tricks
Many of our staff members have made shop samples from the Sassy Sunflower Half Pack Quilt patterns, and we wanted to share our best tips and tricks for success!
- We suggest that you don’t pre-wash fabrics, as any slight fabric shrinkage may make it impossible to complete the pattern as written.
- Be very careful with cutting - many patterns use every inch of some fabrics!
#Hashtag Pattern
As always, we recommend measuring the center of your quilt to determine your own border lengths. Learn more here. If pieced with perfect ¼” seams, your vertical border lengths should be 56 ½” long and your horizontal border lengths should be 51” wide.
If pieced accurately, the finished size of the quilt top will be 51” wide and 61 ½” tall.
Finishing
If you want to purchase backing + binding fabrics that are the same, you’d need 3 ½ yards of regular width fabric.
Cut two pieces 60” wide, seam them together on a selvage edge.
You can make binding from the left over backing fabric by cutting four 60” x 2 ½” strips (parallel to the fabric selvage).
Candy Lane Pattern
Because you’re working with triangles and bias edges, we suggest that you lightly starch your fabrics with a product like Best Press before cutting.
If pieced accurately, the finished size of the quilt top will be 48 ½” wide and 59” tall.
Finishing
If you want to purchase backing + binding fabrics that are the same, you’d need 3 ¼ yards of regular width fabric.
Cut two pieces 58” wide, seam them together on a selvage edge.
You can make binding from the left over backing fabric by cutting four 58” x 2 ½” strips (parallel to the fabric selvage).
Window Pane Pattern
The center accent row will naturally finish at 44 ½” wide. Trim short ends of the pieced row equally to give you a 43” wide strip of pieced squares, keeping the D fabric block centered.
If pieced accurately, the finished size of this quilt top will be 48” wide and 62 ½” tall.
As always, we recommend measuring the center of your quilt to determine your own border lengths. Learn more here. If pieced with perfect ¼” seams, vertical borders can be cut at 57 ½” long. Horizontal borders can be cut at 43” wide, then the 3” squares can be added to the short edges.
Finishing
If you want to purchase backing + binding fabrics that are the same, you’d need 3 ¼ yards of regular width fabric.
Cut two pieces 58” wide, seam them together on a selvage edge.
You can make binding from the left over backing fabric by cutting four 58” x 2 ½” strips (parallel to the fabric selvage).
Tumble Block
In order to get enough blocks to make the borders, you'll need to be very careful when cutting your fabrics!
Fabrics 1 & 2
Choose fabrics 1 and 2 by their width. These should be the widest fabrics in your kit from selvage to selvage. Cut 2 rows of 3" blocks (12) with the remaining fabric, plus 4 more blocks from under the 6 1/2" x 15" pieces.
Fabrics 3 & 4
Cut 1 row of six 3" blocks with the remaining fabric and 7 more blocks from the yardage under the 6 1/2" x 15" cuts and to the right of the 6 1/2" x 9" cut.
Fabric 5
Cut 4 rows of 3" blocks (24) and then 4 more 3" blocks from under the 6 1/2" x 15" pieces.
Piece the Borders
This will give you a total of 86 blocks. Sew 43 blocks together into a 108" wide strip. This row can be sub-cut into one top/bottom border and one side border.
Repeat for the other 43 blocks.
If pieced accurately, your top and bottom border strips can be cut at 44" wide.
If pieced accurately, your left and right border strips can be cut at 63 1/2" wide.
If pieced accurately, your quilt top will be 49" wide and 63 1/2" tall.
Finishing
If you want to purchase backing + binding fabrics that are the same, you’d need 3 ¼ yards of regular width fabric.
Cut two pieces 58” wide, seam them together on a selvage edge.
You can make binding from the left over backing fabric by cutting four 58” x 2 ½” strips (parallel to the fabric selvage).
Spin Me Round
Because you’re working with triangles and bias edges, we suggest that you lightly starch your fabrics with a product like Best Press before cutting.
The cutting diagram to the left of diagram C should have an extra horizontal line showing 18 total 6” squares.
We recommend changing the cut length of the long strips of fabrics #3 and #4. The pattern calls for 3” x 14 ½”. When sewn together, this pieced strip finishes at 56 ½”, which is ½” shorter than the quilt top. We suggest cutting the fabric #3 and #4 strips at 3” x 14 ¾”. Once sewn together with the #1 and #2 strips, this pieced strip should equal 57” long.
The finished size of this quilt top should be 49 ½” wide and 57” tall.
Finishing
If you want to purchase backing + binding fabrics that are the same, you’d need 3 ½ yards of regular width fabric.
Cut two pieces 60” wide, seam them together on a selvage edge.
You can make binding from the left over backing fabric by cutting four 60” x 2 ½” strips (parallel to the fabric selvage).
Quick Strip
Your finished size before borders should be 43” x 65”.
As always, we recommend measuring the center of your quilt to determine your own border lengths. Learn more here. If pieced with perfect ¼” seams, your left and right border strips should be cut at 65” long. Your top and bottom border strips should be cut at 48” wide.
The finished size of this quilt top should be 48” wide and 70” tall.
Finishing
You may need a little more than 3 yards of backing fabric if you’ll be having this quilt longarm quilted. Check with your longarm quilter regarding how much extra backing fabric they require on each side of the quilt top.
Picnic Basket
If your C or D fabrics are directional, one piece of each will not be cut the same way as the rest.
As always, we recommend measuring the center of your quilt to determine your own border lengths. Learn more here. If pieced with perfect ¼” seams, your left and right border strips should be cut at 55 1/2” long. Your top and bottom border strips should be cut at 49 1/2” wide.
The finished size of this quilt top should be 49 1/2” wide and 60 1/2” tall.
Tippy Tote
In step 5, after making your long patchwork strip, sub-cut it into five 23" strips. As the "Hint" suggests, you do not want the seam lines to match from row to row.
In step 6, we believe that "21-inch sides" should read "23-inch sides".
Choose a fabric from your pack that is 42" wide without selvages to be your outer fabric.
