Learn How to Make a "Hattie's Sunflowers" Quilt - Free Quilting Tutorial

🎨 Jenny found inspiration from a colorfully modern-looking antique quilt block, which prompted her to recreate the design.

📚 She referred to Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns to identify the block as "Hattie's Sunflowers."

🌸 The project involves creating a Lemoine star block, which is transformed into a flower by adding a circle in the center.

🧵 Required materials for the quilt include a roll of 2.5-inch strips of fabric, background fabric, yellow solid for flower centers, coordinating green for leaves and stems, and extra fabric for borders and backing.

📐 The finished quilt measures 71 by 91 inches, and the tutorial suggests using a small orange peel template for the leaves and a clearly perfect slotted trimmer for cutting half-square triangles.

💡 A key technique shown is how to create larger half-square triangles from a standard strip size, using the slotted trimmer tool for accuracy.

🌻 Each quilt block is composed of three Lemoine stars with a center circle, two contrasting colors, and a background fabric for the half-square triangles.

🔁 To create a sense of life and movement in the quilt, the stems for the flowers alternate direction in each row.

🧑‍🎨 Jenny shares a bonus insight recalling "chicken scratch" embroidery, a technique that can be applied to the gingham fabric used in the quilt, offering viewers a free printable guide to try it.