Finished Size: Approximate 65” square

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Close to My Heart Sampler

Cut the Pieces Note: The border strips are all cut along the lengthwise grain for the entire length of the fabric yardage and then trimmed to the required length. This eliminates seaming border strips and helps ensure that your on-point quilt will be true and “square.” Cut other strips across the fabric width.

Finished Quilt Size: Approx. 65” square

Setting: 13 blocks on-point with sashing and cornerstones; pieced borders with corner blocks

Setting and Finishing Materials: 44/45” fabric (40” of usable fabric width)

Light #1 1 5⁄8 yards for sashing cornerstones and triangles, side and corner setting triangles, and the middle border; this may match the Light fabric in your blocks or it may be a different Light print.

Medium #1 3⁄4 yard for sashing stripsMedium #6 1 5⁄8 yards for inner and outer borders; this may match the Medium fabric in your blocks

or it may be a different Medium print. Dark #3 5⁄8 yard for bindingBacking 4 3⁄8 yardsBatting 73” square

Finishing the Sampler

Light #1

Light #2

Light #3

Medium #1

Medium #2

Medium #3

Medium #4

Medium #5

Medium #6

Dark #1

Dark #2

Dark #3

Light #1

Light #2

Light #3

Medium #1

Medium #2

Medium #3

Medium #4

Medium #5

Medium #6

Dark #1

Dark #2

Dark #3

Light #1

Light #2

Light #3

Medium #1

Medium #2

Medium #3

Medium #4

Medium #5

Medium #6

Dark #1

Dark #2

Dark #3

Light #1

Light #2

Light #3

Medium #1

Medium #2

Medium #3

Medium #4

Medium #5

Medium #6

Dark #1

Dark #2

Dark #3

Light #1 Cutting parallel to the selvages, cut 4) 3 1⁄2”-wide strips the total length of the fabric yardage for the middle border.

From the remaining Light #1, cut the following pieces: 1) 2 1⁄2” x 24” strip. Crosscut 12) 2 1⁄2” squares for the sashing cornerstones.

1) 2 7⁄8” x 24” strip. Crosscut 6) 2 7⁄8” squares; cut once diagonally for 12 sashing triangles. 2) 14” squares; cut twice diagonally for 8 side setting triangles. 2) 7 1⁄4” squares; cut once diagonally for 4 corner setting triangles.

Medium #1 9) 2 1⁄2” x 40” rectangles; crosscut 9) 2 1⁄2” x 9 1⁄2” sashing strips.

Medium #6 Cutting along the fabric length, cut 8) 3 1⁄2”-wide strips for the inner and outer borders; set aside remaining fabric for other projects.

Dark #3 7) 2 1⁄4” x 40” for the binding

Backing Fabric 2) 40” x 73” panels

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Assemble the Quilt Top

1. Make 4 Hearts Aligned blocks for the border corner squares. Set aside.

2. Arrange the sashing cornerstones and triangles with sashing strips in the sashing units shown. Sew together and press all seam allowances toward the sashing strips. Make 2. Figure 1.

3. Arrange the side setting triangles and the remaining sashing strips with the blocks in the combinations shown and sew together. Press all seam allowances toward the sashing strips. Figure 2.

4. Arrange the units from step 2 and 3 in the diagonal setting shown and sew together. Press all seam allowances toward the sashing strips. Add the corner setting triangles and press the seam allowances toward the sashing. Figure 3.

5. Sew 2 Medium #6 border strips to opposite edges of a Light #1 border strip. Press the seam allowances toward the Medium strips. Make 4. Figure 4.

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 1

Make 2 of each

Figure 4

Make 4

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6. Measure the quilt-top length and width through the center. They should be the same or close to the same. Using the measurement (or an average of the two if they are different), trim the 4 assembled border strips from step 5 to this length.

7. Sew a border corner square (Hearts Aligned Block) to opposite edges of two of the border strips and press the seam allowances toward the border strips (see Figure 5).

8. Sew the border strips to the quilt-top center as shown and press all seam allowances toward the borders. Figure 5.

Finish the Quilt1. Cut one of the two backing panels in half lengthwise

and sew one half-width panel to each long edge of the remaining panel. Press the seam allowances toward the center panel. Trim to 73” square.

2. Layer the quilt top with the batting and backing and pin- or hand-baste the layers together. Quilt as desired. Trim the excess batting and backing even with the quilt-top edges.

3. Sew the binding strips together with diagonal seams and press the seams open. Fold the strip in half lengthwise with wrong sides facing and press. Finish the quilt edges with 1⁄4”-wide finished binding. Miter the corners as you reach them.

4. Don’t forget to add a label.

Figure 5

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