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You will work
with light, medium, and dark values to create this star quilt - but
there are optical illusions in this quilt, too! Play with colors.
You can use just two or three colors, or more. I used many colors.
Choose your fabric style. My quilt is all stripes and plaids, but
yours could be all prints or a combination of prints and plaids, or
all batiks! It's the values that are most important in Mud Pie. Of
course, the recipe is included in your pattern.
FINISHED QUILT
SIZE: 72½” x 76½”
YARDAGE:
One 5" x 42" strip of 40 different fabrics, medium and dark values,
your choice of colors.
One 5" x 42" strip of 40 different fabrics, light values. These
will be your background fabrics. Your choice of colors -- neutrals
such as white, cream, tan or light values of one or more different
colors, for example, light blue, light green, etc.
Backing fabric: 5½ yards
ADDITIONAL 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 sharp blade.
Bias Square Ruler, or 6” x 6” Square Ruler. This is important.
CUTTING:
Medium and dark fabrics:
From each strip, cut 2 squares, 5" x 5" (80 squares total).
Cut the remainder of each strip in half, creating 2 strips, 2½" x
32" (80 strips total).
Light fabrics:
From each strip, cut 2 squares, 5" x 5" (80 squares total).
Then from each strip, cut 2 squares, 4½" x 4½" (80 squares total).
Cut the remainder of each strip in half, creating 2 strips, 2½" x
23" (80 strips total). |