Today’s block is a special request from a viewer who wondered if we knew how to make this block. If you know the traditional name of this block, please let us know! We know there are different ways to make just about any block, but we found the easiest way to make this particular design, is to make two blocks at once. Watch and see!
Carol’s Corners Quilt Block Guide
Video transcript:
hi I’m Tes with Tulip Square and we’re doing something a little bit different today
so one of our faithful viewers found an image of a block that she couldn’t figure out who originally made it and we don’t know who originally made it
I’m sure the first time it was made was long before I was born so she asked us to help figure out how to make this block and this is the block
and I figured out a way to make it so that you make two at once complimentary blocks
all of the measurements and dimensions and everything that you need for this pattern are in a free pdf so you can download and there’s a link in the description box
so in honor of our faithful viewer we’re calling this Carol’s corners
and I will show you the method that I came up with to make these so let’s hop over to the sewing machine and I’ll show you what I did
okay so to make this block or pair of blocks I should say
first what we’re going to do is take our strips and sew them into blocks of four like that
That’s what we’ll do first
and now I have these
We’re going to set those aside for a minute and we’re going to work on the other part
we’re going to make four squares of checkerboards like so
So we’ll just sew these
Sew a bunch of pairs of these together and then we’ll sew those pairs together to make the checkers
Ok now you have all of these pairs
and I’m just going to press those all toward the dark fabric
now we’re just going to sew these into squares like that
Make sure you nest your seams together
And you’ll make four of these
Ok now you have four of these pieces
And four of these pieces
now we’re going to set these ones aside and come back to these
you’re going to take two of them
you’re going to cut two of them in half this way right at a diagonal
And you’re going to cut the other two in half this way
pretty simple just make sure you do half in one direction and half in the other
I’m going to cut those and I’ll be right back
Ok so here we have them two cut in half this way and two cut in half this way
you’re about to see why we have to make two blocks at once
because if you only made one you would have one set of each
And that would give you one dark corner and one light corner
Meaning the biggest piece to be the focal point here
so what we’re going to do we’re going to sew these together like that
we’re going to sew these together like that
See we need two of these for one block and two of these for the other block so that is why we make two blocks at once
What we’re going to do
and we’re just going sew right along there nice quarter inch seam
be careful when doing this step not to stretch your fabric because it’s on the bias here and it’s going to want to stretch so just
let it go gently through the machine no tugging or pulling
now you have two of these
two of these
And four of these
So we’re going to make one block like this
you want all of the same color touching in the center there
one block is going to look like that
And then the second block is going to look like that
I’m just going to sew these together in pairs for the first block
Sorry if that was a little confusing there’s the other block again so it’s going to show sew these into pairs right there and right there
and I’m going to press all of these toward the strip side
Now we have two of these and two of those
so we’re just going to sew them together like this
Right along this edge
you just have that one center seam to nest together
Same thing with that one spin one around
You’ve got all this in the center
line up your center seam there
And you can press these in either direction
there you have it
Two lovely blocks coordinating blocks
okay so that was easy right and now you have these two complementary blocks which are lovely
I hope you like them Carol
I made them in another color while I was testing it out too just so you can see how they look
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