Special thanks to CJ AKA Homesteadmamma
Well here we go with another block. This one will be easy and fun to do. It won't go with our wall hanging/quilt but if you decide to add it to the quilt, just let me know and I'll explain how we can do that when we come to putting the quilt/wall hanging together.
This is just a fun block:
You'll need:
- black material
- a small piece of red material
- a fat quarter of your choice (what do you want in your jar - bees, bears, flowers, etc.)
- ruler
- pencil
- sandpaper
Because this is a tutorial, I'll be going through the same steps as we would with any block. (If your material is already washed and pressed, you don't have to go through these steps again.)
First we need to make sure our material is washed and dried as in the following picture.
Once dried, we need to press our material, pressing as in the following picture, making sure we aren't pushing the iron hard, because it will stretch the material and often make it out of shape.
Once pressed, we want to trim off the selvage edges.
Selvage edges is the lengthwise edge of the fabric.
Your finished block will by 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches and will look similar to this one, except your jar will probably have something different in it. I've chosen to have flowers in mine because that was the material I had laying around.
It would look great with bees, bears, buttons, fish, etc.
You will now do some cutting.
Take the material you've decided to use for the jar and cut it 4 5/8 x 6 inches.
Take a piece of your black material and cut out 4 squares 1 x 1 inch.
You'll now be doing the one inch squares exactly has you've been doing them in the last two blocks.
Take each one inch square and place it at the corner of your jar print. Place your material on a piece of sand paper and draw a line on each square, corner to corner as in the following picture. Sew on the line you have drawn.
Once you have sewn on your line, take your ruler and move it over just under 1/4 inch (towards the outside of the block) and cut with your rotary cutter, just as in the following picture.
The back of your block will now look like this.
Next, you will take your iron and press as in the following picture.
You now need to square the block, which should measure 4 5/8 inches by 6 inches, as in the following picture.
Tip - look at the picture and see if you can see anything wrong. The ruler should be turned the other way!!! Always make sure your ruler is the right way!!!!
Taking your black material, cut out the following pieces:
2 - 1 5/8 x 6 inch rectangles
2 - 2 x 2 1/4 inch rectangles
1 - 1 1/4 x 3 inch rectangle
Set aside and cut from your red material:
1 - 1 1/4 x 3 inch rectangle
Next, we are going to take our 2 - 1 5/8 x 6 inch pieces and sew them to our main block, as in the following picture. Taking your strips, sew one on each side of your jar block.
We then need to press as in the following picture:
Your block will now look like the following picture:
We are now going to begin to sew the top part of the block.
Take your 2 - 1 1/4 x 3 inch rectangles (one black, one red) as in the following picture, and sew together, making sure you use your 1/4 inch seam allowance. Once sew, press towards the black, back first, then front.
Now taking your last 2 pieces of black (2 x 2 1/4 inch rectangles) and sewing one on each side of the jar top, as in the following picture.
Once sewn, press. Now that the pressing is done, this part of the block should look like this:
We now want to take this and sew it to the jar part. Your 2 pieces should look like this:
Taking these 2 pieces, sew them together, making sure that the lid is at the bottom. Using straight pins to hold the 2 pieces together, sew using your 1/4 inch seam allowance. Once sewn, turn over and press as in the following picture.
Now that your block is finished and pressed, you want to square it up. Using your ruler, trim as in the following picture, making sure your finished block measures 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
There are a number of variations in how we finish these jar blocks when put into a quilt. Seeing as we used only black, our quilt would look like this, taken from this website:
http://www.geocities.com/aljobritt/jars2.html
You could also do the quilt in a bookcase style as shown here:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/...2634/jars3.html
Or you could have your jars full of bugs as here:
http://www.geocities.com/quiltbug2/bug1.jpg
Or especially made for a child:
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