QM Patterns: Snuggle Up

 Choosing Your Fabrics

This fast and easy quilt is pleasing with most any combination of fabrics and perfect for pro bono projects! Flannel is especially cozy for snuggling up.

You can use just two or as many as ten different fabrics for this quilt. Scraps are ideal if they are long enough to cut strips 5"x 41". Check Yardage in the list at left for more information.

 Using Up Those Scraps?

If you are working out of your scrap bag and don't have 3/8 yard of any fabric for binding, consider piecing 2 1/4"-wide scraps of any length together to make the binding. You will need a strip of pieced binding 190" long.

 Making the Tube

Arrange the strips so you like the color order. The first and last strip will eventually be sewn together so also consider how these will look next to each other. Sew together the long edges of adjacent strips.

Press the seam allowances in opposite directions each time as shown. By pressing the seams this way, you will be able to nest the seams into each other as you sew later.

Now make a tube by sewing the first strip to the last, right sides together.

 Completing the Quilt Top

Trim the edge of the tube perpendicular to the seam lines. Cut 8 units each 5" wide and lay them out as shown below. Referring to the diagram, remove stitching at each seam indicated by the arrows.

Lay the strips out flat in this same order; you will have 8 units of equal length that make a design in a stair-step pattern. Join the units, nesting each seam to make the corners meet accurately.

 Quilting and Finishing

Layer the lining, batting and quilt top. Baste the layers together.

Quilt in the ditch along all the seam lines. Enclose the edges with binding.