JELLY ROLL SAWTOOTH STAR IN AQUA & BABY BLUE Copyright November 2015 By Liz Katsuro This easy jelly roll quilt uses strip-pieced half-square triangles made in white , light blue and turquoise strips!
JELLY ROLL SAWTOOTH STAR IN AQUA & BABY BLUE
Copyright November 2015 By Liz Katsuro
This easy jelly roll quilt uses strip-pieced half-square triangles made in white , light blue and turquoise strips!
The blocks in this quilt are very easy to make using the jelly roll strip-piecing half square triangle tutorial, and Block 16 of the HST
Challenge!
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
BABY: 47” x 47” layout 4 x 4 7 strips Color A, 7 strips Color B, 25 white strips
Shopping list: Any 2 basic colors, 2 white rolls
LARGE THROW: 80” x 80” layout 7 x 7
20 strips Color A, 20 strips Color B, 71 white strips
Shopping list: Any two rolls basic color rolls, 4 white rolls
QUEEN/KING: enlarge throw size with yardage to
create desired size. 95” x 95” queen add 8” border (2 yards)
107”x 107” king – add 14” border (3 ½ yards) OR
6.5” inner border (1 ½ yards) and 8.25” outer border (2 ½ yards)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Using the method in the jelly roll half-square triangle tutorial, create all of your half-square
triangles.
Baby – make 128 light blue HSTs and 128 aqua/turquoise HSTs.
Throw/Q/K – make 392 light blue HSTs and 392
aqua/turquoise HSTs.
2. Using the tutorial for the Sawtooth Star block, create your star blocks using the light blue HSTs for the corners and the center diamond, and the
aqua/turquoise HSTs for the star “points”.
Baby – make 16 blocks.
Throw/Q/K – make 49 blocks.
3. Cut short 10” sashing strips – 4 from each jelly roll strip.
Baby – cut 12 (3 strips)
Throw/Q/K – cut 42 (11 strips)
4. Attach short sashing strips to the right side of your blocks and trim excess. (Blocks should turn
out just larger than 9 ¾”)
Baby – attach to first 3 blocks for each row
Throw/Q/King – attach to first 6 blocks in each row
5. Attach your blocks to each other in rows with a short sashing piece separating all blocks. Finish by adding the end blocks (that did not have a short
sashing piece attached in step 4).
6. Create long sashing strips.
Baby – sew all 7 strips together on the short end into
one long strip.
Throw/Q/K: sew strips together on the short end in pairs to make long strips – make 10
7. Attach long sashing to rows
Baby – after each row, trim long strip and continue using for next row (including last row)
Throw/Q/K – use one long strip per row and trim
excess.
8. Attach rows to each other
9. Add the top sashing strip/border
10. Add the side sashing strips/borders
BABY – 47” x 47”
THROW – 80” x 80”
Shown with turquoise binding
QUEEN – 95” x 95”
Shown using yardage for 8”border (2 yards)
KING - 107” x 107”
Shown with 6.25” inner border and 8.25” outer border using yardage
Hope you’ve enjoyed this little easy tutorial! Come check out our basic colors and blenders sections for lots of options for colors for your
stars and white rolls for the background!
Liz K., http://jellyrollfabric.net
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