Hi everyone! I’m Andrea Harris and I’m excited to share this tutorial with you today. It uses Sweetwater’s Mama Said Sew collection, and can be assembled quickly and easily. If you have any questions or if you make your own “Urban Shades Quilt”, please feel free to email me or contact me through my blog at Millions of Thoughts . I would love to hear from you!
1 Fat Quarter bundle – Mama Said Sew by Sweetwater
1/2 yard 5498-23 black zigzag stripe for binding
4 yards coordinating fabric for backing
9 Grey fat quarters – choose the boldest greys in the bunch. There was a gingham and a dot fabric that
technically were black, but appeared better as a grey
4 Black fat quarters
1 Red fat quarter
12 Cream print fat quarters
2 Cream ‘solid’ fat quarters
**Set aside remaining fat quarters.
Press open all fat quarters before cutting.
From each grey / black fat quarter cut:
4 – 4.5″ x 6.5″
Cream Solid – cut 22 – 2.5″ x 6.5″
From each of the 12 cream print fat quarters cut:
2 – 6.5″ x 14.5″
2 – 2.5″ x 6.5″ (cut one additional pair from a random cream print to make a total of 26 strips)
This quilt is made up of two blocks, A & B, and can be assembled in a scrappy or matched way. For this tutorial, I have written instructions as the quilt is pictured, with colours in a particular organized order:
Block A Sewing Instructions: (14.5″block)
2. Sew the matching 6.5″ x 14.5″ cream print to complete the block:
Assemble your quilt sandwich using your preferred method, and quilt. I chose a horizontal meander:
70″ square quilt.
*My quilt shrank quite a bit in the dryer, turning it into a 65″ quilt! But you can see the gorgeous puckering in the photo below:
Andrea Harris
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