I call this block “The County Fair” because of the pillow panel fabric I used for the center-it reminds me of a county fair. To coordinate with the center are two prints. The block itself is 16” by 20” -finished, and when sashing and borders are added makes for a fairly quick and easy quilt. As with the original quilt I designed years ago, a border print was used for the sashing. The quilt finishes queen size as pictured. The center of the block is 8” by 10” so I could print Bible verses. This design would also make a great photo quilt for any theme. To learn how to print photos to fabric, FaveQuilts.com has great resources.

The County Fair Block

My original quilt was made for our motor home and I can’t believe that was almost 20 years ago.

As you can see, I was into border prints then, also. Love finding them. There were two border prints used in the original quilt along with a solid and a coordinating print. The size of the quilt will depend on the width of border prints if used. There are 12 blocks in this quilt.

The County Fair Quilt Block

Materials:

• center-cut 8 1/2” by 10 1/2”
• ¼ yd.-1st set of triangles
• 1/3 yd.-2nd set of triangles
• sashing: [strips between blocks]
• cut strips -4 1/2” wide
• cornerstones: [squares at corners of blocks in sashing strips]
• cut 4 1/2” squares
• 2 borders: [around outside of quilt]
• cut strips-4 1/2” wide
• [you may prefer one border cut 8 1/2” wide instead of 2 borders]

General quilting guidelines:
1/4” seams are used, press all seams as you go, pressing seams in alternating rows allows seams to “nest” to lessen bulk at cross seams

To make block:
1. Sew triangles [2] to top and bottom of center square
2. Sew triangles [3] to sides of center square
3. Sew [4] triangles onto block

Instructions:

For quilt: quilt is constructed by sewing rows together across [see quilt photo]
row 1 [SEW 3]: block -sashing-block-sashing-block-sashing-block [press seams
towards left]
row 2 [SEW 2]: 16 1/2” sashing strip-4 1/2” cornerstone-s.s., c., s.s., c., s.s. [press
seams towards right]
Sew rows 1 and 2 together matching seams for 1st set—–Repeat for set 2
Sew 2 sets together, matching seams, Sew remaining row 1 to last row
Sew borders

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Carolyn Wainscott

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I am a 75 year old widow of 3 years after 55 years of marriage whose main focus in life has been my family and homemaking. I love designing, creating, and re-purposing. I was very involved with my children and their activities, then my grandchildren, and now with my great, grandchildren. My first love in crafting is in textiles, mainly quilting. The first quilt I designed was for my grandson over 30 years ago and that pattern will soon be available online. I am loving the internet world where I can market my designs, publish tutorials and talk with crafters all over the world from my own little corner of the world even though never having a lesson on the computer or internet networking I do have to call on my grandchildren at times for help. They still think I rode in on a dinosaur but that's ok, I'm having a great time. I have enjoyed a great deal being able to share my love of crafting on FaveCrafts and FaveQuilts.

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