Paper patchwork – Square & Star Quilt

Anyone a Quilter or do patchwork? I’ve never tried it but I’ve recently admired some beautiful handmade quilts and this week’s offering is inspired by those.

I thought I’d replicate the look of patchwork in a medium I’m more comfortable with which of course is paper and card, although these designs would be great in HTV or Vinyl. May be a good way to use up some scraps.

The Options.

• For a perfect paper patchwork experience, cut the file in the individual geometric shapes and piece them together on a contrast backing card and attach to a card blank, Gift wrap or whatever .
• Cut several from various colours and mix and match them on a contrast backing.

Assembly

I cut the white backing piece first, then the patchwork shapes. In this picture I had removed the excess card stock from around the shapes, leaving the individual patchwork pieces on the cutting mat. Starting with the corner pieces, I lined them up and attached them against the corners of the backing square.

Then I did the same with the side pieces, you can see it’s starting to take shape.

I attached the remaining inside pieces. When I got to the middle, instead of using the blue, I substituted  a different colour to add some contrast. I also offset the backing square to form the a border square to match with the centre. Then I glued it all to a Card Blank.

Credit Where Credit’s Due.

I went hunting for quilting patterns online and came across these. They generously provide measurements for the individual patterns and templates for others designs – I selected a square and star design which I drew up in Silhouette Studio using the measurements they suggested. After some tweaking with the knife, align and Scale tools it was ready to resize and use.

The Files.

Here’s the Square & Star Quilt Block Design for Silhouette Studio V3 (tested in this)

Here’s the Square & Star Quilt Block Design for Silhouette Studio V2

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