GRANNY SQUARE BLOCK in Blues, Gray, Black and White for Amy G.
For this month’s block I chose a Granny Square block made by
using the Granny Square Quilt Block Tutorial
by Blue Elephant Stitches. It is
a relatively easy block to do, and uses all 2.5 inch squares so it is good for
using up scraps or leftover charm squares.
FABRIC REQUIREMENTS: ( All squares are 2.5 inch squares)
1 center (or “baby” )
square
4 “mama” squares
8 “granny” squares
12 Kona white squares (I will provide 3 charm squares for
everyone, which should make 12 squares when cut into fourths)
I would like this quilt to be varying shades of blue, gray,
black and white. You don’t have to use all of these colors in your block, just
please don’t use any additional colors in your block. I used a combination of
solids and small scale tone-on-tone prints and I think this works well for good
contrast so that the granny square pattern shows.
I am also on Instagram as
Indigo_Stitches if you need to refer back to my samples.
The link to the tutorial can be found here.
The only difference is that I would like my center block to
be a contrasting color, so instead of 5 squares in one fabric that the tutorial
calls for, I would like 1 center block and 4 “mama” blocks.
Also, you can omit the step for squaring up the block, that
way I can trim them all down to size before I sew the blocks together.
