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Gingham Meadow Quilt Along
Welcome to the Gingham Meadow Quilt Along Page. Whether you find yourself here in June 2025, when we're running the quilt along, or after that, this page is designed to help you create a beautiful Gingham Meadow quilt.
Gingham Meadow
Quilt Along Schedule
Pattern Launches May 1, 2025 with Free Video on How to Select Colors
✨ June 5 (Week 1): Cut your fabrics + put them in color flow order ✨
✨ June 12 (Week 2): Make your Half Square Triangles (HSTs) ✨
✨ June 19 (Week 3): Make your 4-patch blocks ✨
✨ June 26 (Week 4): Lay out your quilt top ✨
CHOOSING YOUR COLORS
Week 1: Cutting + Putting Fabrics in Order
This week, we are cutting our fabrics and getting them in order for assembly in the coming weeks.
In this video, I outline tips and tricks for efficient cutting. I also outline how to organize your fabrics for color flow whether you want your quilt to be in Rainbow or Random order. I used Random in both my samples and focused my lights in the center and moved to darker matches around the edges.
Lastly, I have also included a video here on how to use a Rotary Cutter to help you with cutting.
Week 2: Making Your Half Square Triangles
This week, we are making our Half Square Triangles (HSTs). The “instructions” for this week seem quite basic, but the impact of this week for the quilt is powerful - I so LOVE me some HSTs!!!!!!! They provide so much power to any design.
NOTE: The video above is how to do 8-at-a-time, but at the 4:00 minute mark, I explain how to trim your HSTs. That is really the important part of making them.
The pattern measurments leave a little room for you to trim and that is the difference between a square block and a wonky block.
Last week’s video discussed how to match up your sets, so this week is really about sewing! So enjoy the time…grab an audio book or movie and start chain piecing! Personally, I am reading Spark of the Everflame again in the hopes that the last book will be out soon!
Week 3: Making 4-Patch Blocks
This is probably the easiest week of the quilt along. Making a 4-Patch block is about as simple as it gets.
In week one, I talked through how to match up your color combinations. It is the same for the HSTs as it is for the 4-Patches, you need to go one extra step to put two (two-square) pieces together.
I don’t have a video for this week because the process is a basic, traditional piecing method. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me on Facebook or by email.
