Make a Barn Quilt Block Finishing Instructions
Cutting for Finishing Your Quilt:
- Turquoise Fabric: Cut SEVENTEEN (17) 2 1/2″ x 15 1/2″ strips for sashing (between the blocks)
- Dark Blue Fabric: Cut SIX (6) 2 1/2″ squares
- Turquoise Fabric: Cut TWO (2) 2 1/2″ x 66 1/2″ strips for the left and right sashing border
- Turquoise Fabric: Cut TWO (2) 2 1/2″ x 53 1/2″ strips for the top and bottom sashing border
- Background Fabric: Cut TWO (2) 8″ x 53 1/2″ strips for the top and bottom border
- Background Fabric: Cut TWO (2) 8″ x 70 1/2″ strips for the left and right border
- Dark Blue Fabric: Cut enough 2 1/2″ x WOF strips and sew them together to bind your quilt top.
Putting Your Quilt Together:
- Sew the sashing strips, row-by-row, to the completed blocks. Remember to add the Dark Blue squares between each block in the sashing.
- Sew the rows together, using the above image as a guide.
- Sew the left and right sashing strips to the center of the quilt top.
- Sew the top and bottom sashing strips to the center of the quilt top.
- Sew the left and right Background Fabric border to the sashing strips.
- Sew the Barn Quilt Block #1 (7 1/2″ finished, 8″ unfinished) to the ends of the top and bottom Background Fabric strips.
- Sew the top and bottom border to the quilt top.
- Quilt as desired, then add the binding!
- Completed quilt top should be 69″ x 86″.
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