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YARDAGE:
13 light and medium light gray fabrics - 1/3 yard each (½ yard each
including borders)
6 medium red fabrics - ¼ yard each (¼ yard each including borders)
5 dark black fabrics - 1/3 yard each (½ yard each including borders)
1 mystery fabric, medium in value - ½ yard (5/8 yard including
borders)
1 additional light or medium light gray fabric - 1½ yards (for side
and corner triangles)
Note: Your gray fabrics should read gray, not black and white,
from a distance. Your gray fabrics should also read light or medium
light, but not medium or dark. Your black fabrics should read dark
from a distance. Sometimes black fabrics read medium if they have
lighter designs on them. Be careful. For your mystery fabric, choose
a medium value in your choice of color. A light mystery fabric would
blend with the grays. A dark mystery fabric might read too dark and
not be distinguishable from the black fabrics.
BORDERS: Optional
BACKING FABRIC: 4 yards (more if you add borders)
BATTING: 70" x 70" (more if you add borders)
SUPPLIES:
Sewing machine in good working order.
Sewing supplies you regularly use such as thread, straight pins,
scissors, seam ripper, etc.
Rotary cutting equipment: mat (18" x 24"), ruler (6" x 24"), and
cutter with a sharp blade. Optional but helpful: a 6" x 12" ruler.
Bias Square Ruler: 6" x 6", or another square ruler.
CUTTING:
From
each of the 13 gray fabrics, cut 2 strips, 2" x 42", and 1 strip 3½"
x 42". From the 3½" strip, cut 7 squares, 3½" x 3½". You will cut 91
squares; you will use 80.
From each black fabric, cut 4 strips, 2" x 42".
From each red fabric, cut 1 strip, 3½" x 42". From this strip, cut 7
squares, 3½" x 3½". You will cut 42 squares; you will use 40.
From your mystery fabric, cut 4 strips, 3½" x 42". From these
strips, cut 40 squares, 3½" x 3½".
From the additional gray fabric, cut 5 squares, 15½" x 15½". Cut 3
of these squares on both diagonals to yield 4 triangles per square,
12 triangles total. These will be your side triangles. Cut the
remaining 2 squares on only one diagonal, to yield 2 triangles per
square, 4 triangles total. These will be your corner triangles.
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