Materials
White lawn (for backing squares), quantity depends on the size of your quilt
Scraps of medium-weight cotton fabric
Thread
Backing fabric
Wide bias binding (in colour to match your quilt)
Method
Following our Crazy Quilt Guide and using fabric A, cut lawn into 22cm squares. To stitch patchwork, lay a scrap of fabric (fabric B in diagram) right side up over one corner of the lawn. Pin in place as illustrated in Step 1.
Take the next piece of fabric (fabric C in diagram) and lay it face down in a diagonal line over fabric B, as illustrated in Step 2.
Machine stitch in place using a 6mm seam. Trim sewn edge and open fabric C right side out, press.
When fabric C is opened out to the right side, two corners of the lawn square will be covered, as illustrated in Step 3.
Continue stitching pieces together until the base square (fabric A) is totally covered.
Press and trim edges to form a square the same size as the base fabric (A), as illustrated in Step 4.
Make as many squares using the method above, as desired.
To make up your quilt, join your squares in strips, then join these strips, matching seams.
Cut and join fabric for backing; make your backing at least 5cm larger all around than your quilt. Tack backing and quilt top wrong sides together (no wadding is used). Turn out. Machine quilt along all seams (use a walking foot or the dual feed on your machine). Trim corners into curves and bind the edges of your quilt with bias binding.
Credit: Quilt designed and made by Yvonne Line.
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