White Chocolate and Mint
When I saw the pattern for the popular White Chocolate Quilt, I just knew I had to make one. I had lots of scraps in the beige tones, but not enough for the larger squares, so I decided to modify the layout to use the fabrics I already had. By adding shades of green for the larger squares, I created my White Chocolate with Mint Quilt.
The first step was to piece lots of fabrics together on the longarm machine to create strips that could be cut into squares. Next, I placed fabrics right-sides together on the longarm, and used a digital pattern to sew lots of half-square triangles together. After all of the cutting and pressing was done, the blocks were assembled. It took a large surface to try a few layouts — arranging and rearranging until I found one that I liked. All of the large blocks and border were pieced, and then it was ready to quilt!
You can click on the pictures below to see the steps I used for assembly. Each picture will open to a larger size when you click on it again.
You can order the original White Chocolate Quilt pattern from McCall’s Magazine.
6 comments
Robin,
This is terrific. Such a talent you are! Love the whole thing. So….can I have one???
Otter
Otter,
Of course!
Robin
Nice quilt! What do you mean by using a digital pattern to sew the triangles together?
Karen,
It’s a pattern that I use with the Statler Stitcher — just like some of the ones we have used on your quilts. This one is set up like a grid, with half-square triangles across the screen. I can place two fabrics on the machine, right sides together (no batting, of course), and stitch the HST grid pattern. Then I remove the fabrics from the machine and cut my HST apart. Much faster than sewing them on my DSM!.
Robin
How do you “piece lots of fabrics together on the longarm machine to create strips that could be cut into squares?”
Linda,
We’ll chat through an email, and I’ll explain everything you can do with a longarm!
Robin
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