Scrappy Mystery Quilt-a-long Step 6

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Who is ready for our Scrappy Mystery Quilt-a-long Step 6? I am… although my Christmas version is a little bit behind…

Today we’ll be taking our 9 patches:

and combining them with these:

FOR STEP 1 GO HERE

FOR STEP 2 GO HERE

FOR STEP 3 GO HERE

FOR STEP 4 GO HERE

FOR STEP 5 GO HERE

So today we’ll be cutting strips and sewing… let’s start with cutting!

STEP 6 OF THE JUNE 2020 SCRAPPY MYSTERY QUILT-A-LONG!

YOU WILL NEED:

Twelve 2 1/2″ strips width of fabric, of your chosen background fabric

Cut your 2 1/2″ strips as follows:

From each strip cut:

two 2 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ strips

AND

two 2 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ strips

NB leave the strips folded when you are cutting, don’t open the whole strip up. This is probably obvious to most of you, but if you are a beginner and don’t know what I mean, please feel free to ask for clarification.

You will have a little bit left over after cutting the strips:

I like to go ahead and cut the rest of the strip up into usable scraps, so with these strips I cut the leftovers up into 2 1/2″ squares and 2″ squares:

And then I put them into my scrap boxes… we don’t need these for this quilt-a-long!

To summarize our cutting:

From each strip you will get TWO 6 1/2″ strips and TWO 10 1/2″ strips.

Time to sew!

Take the 9 patches and sew a 6 1/2″ strip to each side:

Yes, I pin 🙂 Edges first, then the middle.

Press towards the 9 patch:

And they will look like this:

Pin and Sew the 10 1/2″ strips to the other sides of the 9 patch:

While we usually press to the dark side, with this step it would make the corners a bit bulky, so,

Press towards the background strip:

Now you should have a pile of these:

Next step will be on Wednesday… and the last step will be next Monday, so we are nearly there!

In other news…

I am crocheting myself some leg warmers… one is done:

I was going to use the same fluffy yarn as my fluffly slippers to make the crazy look complete.. but I didn’t have any.. so I used what I have and since I am wandering around with only one on, it’s looks like I’ve injured my leg or something…. 🙂

It isn’t the 80’s anymore, so my leg warmer is no fashion statement, nor are my fluffy slippers! But they are helping keep me warm, although (for those who know me) I am still wandering around in short sleeves… My legs and feet really only get cold when I am sitting down in the evening – when I am up and about I am toasty warm 🙂

Till Wednesday…

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FOR STEP 2 GO HERE

FOR STEP 3 GO HERE

FOR STEP 4 GO HERE

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