Week 1: Heather Ross Quilt Along

The Heather Ross Quilt Along is finally starting and I’m so very excited! The task for week 1 is to get all the cutting done. I am using the tutorial for the Boxed In quilt from Freckled Whimsy for my quilt.

The instructions for the quilt call for a layer cake, but I’m using yardage, so my cuts ended up a little bit different. My friend, Kim, sent me almost all of the Heather Ross fabrics for this quilt; she is the most wonderful person ever! Although the instructions end up with sewing up 25 quilt blocks, I ended up with 42 different prints, so I’m going to use them all and make a quilt 6 blocks across and 7 blocks down.

I started by fussy cutting my Heather Ross prints into 5″ x 5″ squares.

So as I said, I’m not using a layer cake so I cut one of the following strips for each block:
– 3-3/4″ x 9″
– 2″ x 5″
– 3″ x 5″
– 1-1/4″ x 9″

This will yield me 9″ x 9″ blocks. I sewed up a test block to make sure my measurements were correct, since I’m bad at math. 🙂

I can’t wait to cut into all my fabrics! I divided all my 5″ squares among my 13 different Kona solids that I am using for the outside of the squares so that while cutting I can keep them in order of how I will be sewing later.

Well, that’s it until next week! Next week I will be assembling the first row of the quilt!