We released a new pattern on our website today featuring Painted Paradise fabric from Timeless Treasures. It is called Snow Cones.
Snow Cones Quilt
Doesn’t it look like those fruity, slushy, ice cold treats you used to get as a kid in the heat of the summer? We had so much fun designing this quilt. It’s a fairly easy pattern that would be suitable for an advanced beginner quilter. Here is what a couple of the individual blocks look like.
SC Block 1SC Block 4
This is the pattern cover.
Snow Cones Cover
Our Testers had fun making this pattern. Sharon Buman really got into the spirit of a snow cone quilt when she chose these bright colors. She cut out all of he pieces using her Accuquilt cutter and said that sewing it together was a breeze.
Tester Sample
Jogi made the quilt in her grand daughter’s school colors and is giving it as a graduation gift. She wanted the quilt to be longer, so she added a piano key border to the top and bottom to turn it into a rectangular quilt. I love how she used white rectangles instead of the navy ones from the original pattern.
Tester Sample
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I hope you like this fun and festive quilt pattern as much as I do.
We have a pattern on our website called Fit For a King and we also designed the pattern called Antique Americana on the Accuquilt website, so I thought it might be fun to do a tutorial for sewing this block. Here are photos of those two quilts.
Fit For a King Quilt PatternAntique Americana
Here is what the Accuquilt Die looks like.
Hattie’s Choice
The die has three shapes on it labeled A, B & C. Now at first glance, you may think that shape “A” is an equilateral triangle, and the die packaging would lead you to believe that it is an equilateral triangle, but it is not. When piecing this shape, there is a correct orientation for laying it out and piecing it.
Look at one of the shape A’s laid over another one, as in the photo below, Â and you can see that they are not the same on all sides.
Shape A laid over another
There is a distinct orientation for correctly piecing shape “A.” You need to identify the top of Shape” A and stack them all with the top on top.
Shape A next to shape B
The next photo shows the correct orientation of shape A on the right side of the shape B Diamond. You flip shape A over to the left on top of shape B per the photo below. Notice the orientation of shape A on top of shape B for sewing.
shape A flipped onto shape B
It helps if you sew with leaders and enders. These are scraps of fabric you start sewing on before sewing on your quilt pieces and stop on after you have sewn your chain of quilt pieces. This prevents the corners of your pieces from getting jammed down in the feed dogs. Â This next picture shows the 1/4″ seam sewn. Notice how the seam starts on the top point and ends by going through the bottom point.
LeaderSeam on 1st shape A and B
Next press the seam toward the triangle.
press toward shape A triangle
Place another shape A onto the B diamond. Notice the orientation of the top on shape A.
Adding 2nd shape A
Look at the 1/4″ seam below. Notice how the it starts at the top point and ends by going through the bottom point.
Seam on 2d shape A
Press toward second shape A. Second photo is view from the back. Make 4 of these combined units.
Press toward 2d shape AView from the back
Layout these combine units with shape Cs to the left of them.
Adding shape C
Flip the combined units onto shape C as depicted below. Note how they are sewn from point to point.
Combined units laid out on Shape C1/4″ seam
Press toward shape C. View from the back. Make 4 of these units.
pressed toward shape Cback view
Lay out the 4 units per the photo below.
4 units laid out
Place one of the units on top of another and sew along the right edge with a 1/4 ” seam. Second photo below is view of seam from back.
units laid out on top of each othercombined units showing 1/4″ seam
Press seam toward shape C.
Press toward shape C
Lay out two half units.
Two half units
Flip one half unit onto the other and pin where the diamonds intersect. Note the 1/4″ seam line in the second photo.
half units flipped onto each other.1/4″ seam on half units
Press the center seam open.
Center seam pressed open
Voila! You have a completed Hattie’s Choice block. In a perfect world, these blocks would measure 8.5″, but you can see that mine are only 8.25.” This will be fine as long as all of your blocks are consistently the same measurement.
