Sunny Chevron Quilt Small Throw Size: 47” X 57” Or Queen ... · the quilt, like we did, or keep it square as it is now. Now you are ready to baste your top to the backing, machine

Sunny Chevron Quilt

Small Throw Size: 47” X 57”Or Queen Size: 86” X 95”

An Original Design by The Piper's Girlswww.pipersgirls.com

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Making Half square triangles with this simple method is so easy and fast, it is

wonderful for Beginner Quilters. This pattern is written for a small throw (the size

we made, shown in the picture) or follow the changes for A Queen Bed size , both

are put together lickety split!

You will need:

Throw Size Quilt:

*15 fabrics in cheery co-ordinating colors,

¼ yard each(you will have some extra) or a Fat Eighth.

We used a combination of several Riley Blake collections.

*1 ¾ yard of off white fabric or whatever color you would like for your

background .Some of our Beginning Quilting students have used Black or Gray

instead of white and the results were just beautiful!

*3 ½ yards of backing fabric, you will need to piece your back.

*a piece of batting a few inches larger than the finished quilt size

*3/4 yard cut into 2 1/2” bias strips for the bias binding

We especially love the look of stripes on the bias for binding, we used a gray and

white pinstripe.

Queen Size Quilt:

* 15 fabrics in cheery co-ordinating colors,

½ yard each

We used a combination of several Riley Blake collections.

*4 ½ yards of off white fabric or whatever color you would like for your

background .Some of our Beginning Quilting students have used Black or Gray

instead of white and the results were just beautiful!

*5 ½ yards of backing fabric, you will need to piece your back.

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* 1 ¼ yards cut into 2 1/2” bias strips for your binding.

*a piece of batting a few inches larger than the finished quilt size

Cutting:

*From your assorted color fabrics cut (30) 8” squares for the throw size or

(90) 8” squares if you are making the the throw. If you used 15 different fabrics

like we did, you will have (2) 8” squares of each fabric for the throw or (6) 8”

squares of each fabric for the Queen size.

*From the white background fabric, cut (30) 8” squares for the throw or

(90) 8” squares if you are making the the Queen size.

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Stitching:

Now form pairs of 1 white and 1 color fabric, right sides together and pin. You will need 30 of these pairs for the throw size and 90 for the Queen. They will look just

like the picture below:

Now using a ¼ inch seam allowance, stitch around all four sides. It is best to

stitch in an assembly line fashion. Keep feeding your blocks into the machine and

stitch them all at the same time.

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Now you will have a block that is completely sewn shut on all 4 sides. Using your ruler and rotary cutter. Cut the square in half diagonally in both directions.

You will end up with (4) half square triangle blocks that look like the picture above. Now press these blocks open, and they will all look like this:

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These are your half square triangle blocks, Wasn't that easy!? They should

measure about 5” square at this point. Now you will want to stitch them into

pairs. You will be making 60 pairs for the throw and 180 pairs for the Queen.

BUT,pay close attention here! You will have two types of pairs, the top of the

chevron and the bottom of the chevron. Half of your pairs (30 Throw or 90

Queen) will be the top and the other half will be the bottom. You also will press

your seams to one side, all of the tops will be pressed to the right and all of the

bottoms will be pressed to the left.

Top Chevron Pairs

Bottom Chevron Pairs

Now construct all of the pairs into rows.

Each row will consist of 5 pairs for the Throw size and 9 pairs for the Queen size.

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I suggest laying all of your pairs out on the ground or a design board to decide

where the best placement is. You will have 12 rows (half will be top rows and half

will be bottom rows, see pics below) for the throw size and 20 rows for the queen

size. Remember all top rows will have all seams to the right and all bottom rows

will have all seams pressed to the left. This way you can butt the seams perfectly

and your rows will have perfect alignment.

Top Row

Bottom Row

Now you will stitch all of your rows together to complete the top. Again 12 rows

for the throw and 20 rows for the Queen.

Once your whole top is stitched together, you can cut a curve into the corner's of

the quilt, like we did, or keep it square as it is now. Now you are ready to baste

your top to the backing, machine quilt and bind! This quilt is very simple to quilt

on your own machine if you are up to it. We just mimicked the chevron pattern

for the machine quilting.

We are sharing this as a Free pattern, so go ahead and duplicate and share. Just please

do us a favor,and don't do that with patterns you pay for. Pattern making is someones

lively-hood and sharing those patterns is just like stealing.

Please tag us if you make this and post on any social media! We love to see your

finished projects, and sometimes we give prizes when we find them! #pipersgirls

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