Spring Cleaning

This month we coordinate with our March program “Stash to Treasure” and are going for environment and how to reuse some of our stash to make this month’s treasure!

City

10½” x 8½” finished size
Read all directions before starting

Supplies:

Five different fabrics to represent sky – landscape – windows – doors -building – trim.

Instructions:

Fabric – (total length)
Sky	(1) 4″x 3½”	(1) 2″x 3½”	(1) 1″x 6″
Landscape	(1) 4″x 6″	(1) 2″x 6″
Building – (1″ x 77″)	(10) 1″x 7″	(1) 1″x 6″	(4) 1¼”x 1½”
Windows – (1½” x 28″)	(4) 1½”x 7″
Doors	(2) 1¼”x 1½”	(1) 1½”x 1½”
Trim	(1) 1″ x 6″

Cut pieces for the block using the diagram above.
Take your (4) window strips and half (5) of the 1″x 7″ building strips and sew them into a set alternating window and building.
Iron your strip set. Press the seam closed, setting the stitches before opening the fabrics apart. This helps to open the seam.
Measure the width of the ironed strip set. If you sew perfect ¼” seams it should be 7″ wide.
-My piece measured 7¼”—perfection is not my middle name!
-To fix that I sewed a second seam just to the inside of the original seam and got it down to 7″.
-For a strip set that comes out smaller than 7″—say 6¾” I would trim the last (5) 1″x 7″ building strips to set to 6¾” and cut a new sky piece that is 1¼”x 6″.
Take the strip set to your cutting board. Turn upside down. Even out the bottom edge lining your ruler so the inner seams are perpendicular to the ruler.
Slice the strip set into (4) 1¼” strips. There is extra fabric so when your set gets cattywampus you can trim again to straighten it.
Now take those four strip sets and five more of the 1″x 7″ (or smaller) Building strips and sew into a quad set.
Take the trim piece, fold in half lengthwise (1/2″ wide) and iron.
Lay on one of the short edges of the building and cover with the last building strip. Sew the four layers of fabric together.
Sew the other 1″x 6″ sky strip to the other short edge of the Building set.
Take the (4) 1¼”x 1½” Building pieces and the three door pieces and sew them in a strip set with the larger door in the center (or as you prefer).
Sew this last strip to the bottom of the building set.
Sew the two sky rectangles to the landscape rectangles on the short side. (Make sure the direction of the landscape fabric is correct.)
Sew the landscape sky units to either side of the building.
Add a frame, batting and backing if you are making a quiltlet as with previous blocks.