Hello! My Steven & I bought a new house (Yay!), so all of my sewing supplies are currently living sad little lives inside cardboard boxes. In the interim, I am sitting here at my computer procrastinating because I DO NOT want to pack up yet another load of boxes in this sweltering Texas heat. I was hoping that once the sun went down, the weather would be much more reasonable, but no. It’s after 7pm and still feels like 102 degrees! So, whatevs, I’m going to put up this quick tutorial for my bolt quilt. It’s more like a layout, tbh. Here you go:
The blocks are made of solid strips of fabric and half-square rectangles. There’s an excellent tutorial here for HRT’s from the Modern Quilt Guild’s 100 Days of Quilts! The tall HRT’s in bolt started their lives as 8.5″ long x 2.5″ wide strips and finished at 5.75″ x 2″. The shorter ones were 4.5″ long and 2.5″ wide and finished at 3.25″x2″. The solid strips were 5.75″ x 2″. Feel free to experiment with sizes on your project. Just make sure your triangle points end up a quarter inch away from the edge or the quilt police will get you…
Tips? I’d say you could press all your seams open to make it easy on yourself. Did I do that? Um, no. I pressed them all to the background. Then all the blocks in column one were pressed down and all the blocks in column two were pressed up and so on and so forth. That way, each row nestled in with one another. Secondly, pin like a beast! And then pin some more! A graphic pattern like this relies on precision piecing, so take your time and line EVERYTHING up. The tops of the lightning bolts should be perfectly straight across… Here’s bolt one more time:
It actually goes together quite quickly once you’ve figured out what color goes where. I hope y’all try this quilt out. Or at least make a pillow or something with it! Have a good night! I have storage totes calling out to me! rebecca
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