Story Nursery Quilt
Use soft book panels to create a nursery quilt with a story theme. Mom and Dad can read the panels to the child at bedtime.
Materials:
- 1 BaZooples Soft Book Panel, Item #1516582
- 2¾ yards BaZooples Animal Toss Blue, Item #1516578
- 1¾ yards BaZooples Patch Allover, Item #1516585
- 1½ yards BaZooples Animal Toss Yellow, Item #1516572
- Crib-size Batting
Cutting:
- From the Soft Book panel, cut nine 7½” x 10½” rectangles, centering a design in each rectangle.
- From the Animal Toss blue print, cut eight 2½” x Width of Fabric (WOF) strips. From these eight strips, cut four 2½” x 25½” strips for the horizontal sashing strips and cut six 2½” x 10½” strips for the interior vertical sashing strips and two 2½” x 38½” strips for the exterior vertical sashing strips.
- From the Animal Toss blue print, cut five 2¼” x WOF strips for the binding.
- From the Animal Toss blue print, use the remaining fabric for the backing 44” x 54”.
- From the Patch A/O print, cut two 2¾” x 44½” strips centered lengthwise over design as shown in illustration, for the inner border sides.
- From the Patch A/O print, cut two 3½” x 29½” strips, centered horizontally over design as shown in illustration, for the top and bottom inner border.
- From the Animal Toss yellow print, cut two 3½” x 50½” strips from the length of fabric for the side outside borders.
- From the Animal Toss yellow print, cut two 3½” x 33½” strips from the length of fabric for the top and bottom outside border.
Assembly:
- Starting and ending with one 7½” x 10½” Book Panel (in order as shown on picture), sew together three book panels and two 2½” x 10½” sashing strips to make one row. Repeat to make three pieced rows total.
- Starting and ending with one 2½” x 25½” horizontal sashing strip, sew together four 2½” x 25½” sashing strips and the three pieced rows from Step 1 to make the quilt top.
- Sew one 2½” x 38½” exterior vertical sashing strip to each side of the quilt top.
- Sew one 3½” x 29½” Patch A/O strip to the top and bottom of the quilt top.
- Sew one 2½” x 44½” Patch A/O strip to each side of the quilt top.
- Sew one 3½” x 33½” Animal Toss strip to the top and bottom of the quilt top.
- Sew one 3½” x 50½” Animal Toss strip to each side of the quilt top.
- Layer, quilt and bind as desired.
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