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    Home » Quilts

    Seasonal Safari Row Along; Row 3

    Updated: Oct 29, 2017 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 2 Comments

    Welcome back to our Seasonal Safari Row Along! This week we are going to be stitching up a bunch of half square triangles to make row 3 of our quilt. To see all of the posts in this series CLICK HERE. 

    Seasonal Safari Quilt Pattern - offered as a free quilt along this Fall from the polkadotchair.com blog! #quiltalong #freequiltpatterns #rowquilt #quiltingtutorials #quilts #safariparty #rileyblake #melissamortenson #polkadotchair #howtoquilt #learntoquilt

    Hey Guys! Are you ready to start stitching again? A few weeks ago we learned how to make Half Square Triangle (HST) blocks and today we are building on that skill to create row 3 of our quilt.

    I set up a page here with the instructions for making Half-Square Triangles that you can refer to as you work. That way we can just jump right into the block construction today.

    As a reminder here is the layout of the quilt:

    Seasonal Safari Quilt Pattern - offered as a free quilt along this Fall from the polkadotchair.com blog!

    I’ve already shared the instructions for creating row, 4, 5, 6 and today we are going to create row 3.

    Row 3 is made up of 5 blocks, each one of them looks like this:

    Seasonal Safari Row along Block construction

    Cutting Directions:

    From Background Fabric Cut (white in the illustrations):

    20 squares each 4″ x 4″

    From Blue Fabric Cut:

    10 squares each 4″ x 4″

    From Green Fabric Cut:

    10 squares each 4″ x 4″

    From Center Strip Fabric Cut:

    1 piece 3 ½″ x 12 ½″

    Construction:

    How to Quick Piece Half Square Triangles

    Step One:

    Begin by creating your Half Square Triangles. To do this pair one background square with one color background square.  Place the two pieces together, right sides facing.

    Draw a line down the center diagonally on the wrong side of the background fabric square. Stitch down each side of the line ¼″ out from the drawn line. Cut apart along the line, press seam to one side and trim to 3 ½″ x 3 ½″

    To see DETAILED instructions for this step CLICK HERE for a full tutorial on how to create Half Square Triangles. 

    Repeat this step until you have 40 completed Half Square Triangles, 20 green/white and 20 blue/white.

    Seasonal Safari Row along Block construction

    Step 2:

    Layout 8 of the sewn Half Square Triangles and the center strip as shown in the photo above. You will have 2 blue and 2 green HST on the first row and 2 blue and 2 green HST on the 3rd row.

    Stitch the 4 HST’s on the first row together and press the seams all to one side.

    Repeat with the 3rd row.

    Stitch row 1 to the center strip.

    Press seam toward center strip.

    Stitch row 3 to the other side of the center strip.

    Press seam towards the center strip.

    Repeat until you have 5 completed blocks.

    Step 3:

    Stitch all 5 blocks together and press seams to one side.

    That’s it! You’re done with row 3!

    Seasonal Safari Quilt Pattern - offered as a free quilt along this Fall from the polkadotchair.com blog!

     

     

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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    1. erin says

      October 31, 2017 at 6:51 am

      Kingsley looks so calm just sitting there! 😉

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    2. Lynn Parish says

      November 01, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      Thanks again for this lovely Rowalong series! I’m having sew much fun! Looking forward to seeing my finished Christmas Quilt!

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