Hi everyone,

Happy Tuesday! We hope you are having a lovely day. It’s another gorgeously, sunny day out today – a little cooler than yesterday, but Spring weather has officially arrived!! Goodbye puffy coats, goodbye heavy boots haha.

Time for this week’s How To’s Day! Today we are featuring another one of our lovely quilt designs, this week’s by Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter. Stephanie created her blog, Late Night Quilter, because that is what she started out as – working full-time during the day (as well as being a full-time mama), and quilting at night. Such a cute name. As she started to get more involved in the quilting world, her blog and brand quickly grew…and she saw herself being more in the quilting industry.

Now, along with her friend Michelle, they run Late Night Quilter – a long arm quilting service and pattern design company based in Austin, Texas. Their style is cool and modern, just like our fabric designs, so we knew they would be a great fit from the start! For our Free Projects Program, Stephanie created her Summer of the Sound Quilt, featuring It’s a Bird’s Life by Heather Rosas, which truly showcases the pretty greens and pinks in this collection. The star designs make this quilt truly unique, and would make a fantastic bed quilt or wall decor. Just stunning!

Want to make your own Summer of the Sound Quilt? Click MORE to see the full tutorial.

SUMMER OF THE SOUND QUILT
Designed by: Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter
Collection Featured: It’s a Bird’s Life by Heather Rosas for Camelot Fabrics

OTHER TOOLS & SUPPLIES:
– 2 yards of extra-wide quilt batting (at least 66” wide)
– sewing maching & coordinating thread- rotary cutter & mat- fabric shears- straight pins
– fabric marker
– straight edge ruler & measuring tape

NOTES:
– For best results, read through all the instructions before starting.
– Please wash, dry & iron your fabric before beginning, and trim selvages.
– Unless otherwise directed, sew all seams with an accurate 1/4” allowance and the fabrics’ Right Sides together, and press seams open as you go.
– WOF = Width of Fabric (42”)
– HST = Half Square Triangle

PICKET FENCES BLOCKS

1. Sew a 3-5/8” Fabric B square to a 3-5/8” Fabric C square as shown.

Make (4).

2. Sew a 3-5/8” Fabric D square to either end of (2) B/C rectangular units as shown.

Make (2).

3. Sew (2) B/C units to the left-hand & right-hand sides of a 7” Fabric A square as shown.

4. Sew the (2) 4-square units from Step 2 to the top & bottom of the 7” Fabric A square.

5. Place a 5-7/8” Fabric F square on a 5-7/8” Fabric E square, Right Sides together. Draw a diagonal line through the center of the Fabric F square, and sew 1/4” from the line on both sides as shown.

Cut on the center line to make (2) HST units.

6. Place (2) HST units together as shown, Right Sides together, with the Fabric F side of (1) HST over the Fabric E side of the other HST.

Make a pair of HSTs in the same manner as you made the first pair, with the seams running at 90° to the seams of the original HSTs.

7. Square up the HSTs to 5-1/4” square, and cut each one in half through the diagonal as shown.

You should now have (8) quarter-square triangles.

8. Sew (2) quarter-square triangles to (2) adjacent sides of a 5” Fabric F square as shown, to form a corner unit of the Picket Fences Block.

Make (4).

9. Sew the each corner unit to (1) side of the square unit from Step 4 as shown, along the corner unit’s longest edge.

Make (7) more Picket Fences blocks – (8) blocks total.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE BLOCK

There are (5) different types of sub-blocks within the Wheel of Fortune block:

1. Place a 3-1/2” Fabric B square against one corner of the large Fabric A square, and draw a diagonal line through its center as shown. Sew 1/4” outside the line and trim the excess.

Repeat for the remaining (3) corners of the Fabric A square, to complete the Center square.

2. Place a 3-1/2” Fabric C square against one corner of a 4-1/2” Fabric F square, Right Sides together, and draw a diagonal line through its center as shown. Sew 1/4” outside the line and trim the excess.

Make (4).

3. Place a 3-1/2” Fabric E square against the bottom edge of a 3-1/2” x 4-1/2” Fabric C rectangle, and draw a diagonal line from its top left corner to its bottom right corner as shown. Sew 1/4” outside the line and trim the excess.
4. Place a 1-1/2” Fabric F square at the top left corner of the Fabric C rectangle, draw a diagonal line and sew it in place as you did with the Fabric E square.
5. Repeat Steps 3-4, placing the Fabric E & F squares against the right-hand side of the Fabric C rectangle.

Make (4) of each.

6. Sew a Fabric C triangle to a Fabric E triangle and a Fabric B triangle to another triangle E triangle, as shown.
7. Sew the (2) resulting triangles together along their longest edges, as shown.

Make (4) Hourglass squares.

8. Sew a left- and right-hand rectangle to either side of an Hourglass square as shown

Make (4) rows.

9. Sew a corner square to each end of (2) rows, as shown.

Make (2).

10. Sew the (2) short rows to opposite sides of your center square. Sew the (2) longer rows to the top & bottom of the center square.

This completes the Wheel of Fortune Block.

11. Cut (2) 3-1/2” Fabric B squares & (2) Fabric Sew a Fabric C triangle to a Fabric E triangle and a Fabric B triangle to another triangle E triangle, as shown.
12. Sew the (2) resulting triangles together along their longest edges, as shown.

QUILT TOP

1. Sew (4) 1-3/4” Fabric G squares together with (3) 18-1/2” x 1-3/4” Fabric F rectangles, alternating between the fabrics as shown, to make a Sashing strip.

Make (4) strips.

2. Referring to the Assembly Layout on the final page, sew the (9) Blocks together in rows of (3) blocks, with a 1-3/4” x 18-1/2” Sashing rectangle between each one and at both ends of each row.
3. Sew the (3) rows together, with a Sashing strip between each row.
This completes the quilt Center.
4. Join the 1-1/2” Fabric F Border strips end-to-end. You will cut each Border piece from this strip.
5. Measure the quilt center’s height through the middle, and cut (2) side borders to this length. Sew them to the left- and right-hand sides of the quilt center.
6. Measure the quilt center’s width through the middle, including the side borders. Cut top & bottom borders to this length, and sew them to the top & bottom of the quilt center.

FINISHING THE QUILT

1. Join the Fabric H binding strips end-to-end, and press them to make double-fold binding.
2. Join the (2) Backing rectangles along (1) pair of 72” edges.
Layer your quilt top, batting & backing. Baste & quilt as desired, trim the excess batting & backing, and bind with Fabric H.

We hope you love this week’s How To’s Day!! You can find the full PDF print-out on our website here. If you decide to create this quilt, we’d love to see. You can send us pictures at info@camelotfabrics.com or tag us on Instagram. You can also find more from Stephanie on her blog, Late Night Quilter. Have a fantastic day!

Happy Sewing!