A Walk in the Park Quilt Tutorial

What you will need:

One Central Park by Kate Spain Jelly Roll
One Bella Basics White Jelly Roll
1/2 yard Central Park fabric for the border 

1/2 yard Central Park fabric for binding
3 yards fabric for backing

You will be making 40 printed rectangles (with white in the center) and 5 white rectangles (with a print in the center).



Take your Central Park Jelly Roll and cut EACH strip as follows:

 TWO 8 1/2" pieces

  TWO - 6 5/8" pieces

 You will have 40 sets of printed strips.

Then from FIVE of the strips cut an additional 8 1/2" piece. (These will be for the inside of the five white rectangles.)

From your Bella White Jelly Roll you will need:
50 - 8 1/2" strips and 10 - 6 5/8" strips

Next Step:

Make your rectangles!

All seam allowances are 1/4".

For the printed rectangles:


Take each set and one 8 1/2" strip from the white fabric.

Join the white strip with the two 8 1/2" print strips on each side. Press the seams.

 Join the two smaller strips to each end. Press seams.

For the white rectangles:
Take each white set and one of the 8 1/2" printed strips.

Join the printed strip with the two white strips on each side. Press the seams.
Join the two smaller white strips to each end. Press seams.

They should look like this:

Now take all of those fabulous rectangles and lay them out in a way that pleases you:). You need two rectangles on top of each other horizontally and then one next to them vertically. There should three sets in each row. Alternate the rows.  Here's what mine looked like:

Next step:


Let's put this quilt together! Following your layout, take the first two rectangles and piece them one on top of the other.

Then piece another rectangle vertically next to the two. You'll have one rectangle "set".

 

Keep piecing until you have a row with three of each set of rectangles (two horizontal and one vertical).

Piece each row this way alternating starting with a vertical or horizontal rectangles.You will have 5 rows.  Now you can piece the rows together! Make sure you pin well and match seams where they come together.

This is what it will look like when you get all the rows together. I think it looks great like this and you could quilt and bind it as is! I just wanted to make my quilt a little bit bigger so I added some strips.

Use your leftover white jelly strips. You'll have to sew two together for each side. Attach the border all the way around. Like so:

Next, cut the border print into 2 1/2" strips and add that around your quilt in the same manner: 

Finally I placed one more row of the white strips all the way around and ta-da!

Now all you have to do is baste:

Quilt...

and Bind!

 

Just FYI, here's is what I did on the back:

My backing fabric is White Bella Solid. I used the leftover Central Park fabric and cut more 8 1/2" strips and used leftover white jelly roll strips in between.

I would love to see your finished quilt if you decide to make it! Add your items to my Flickr group! Questions? Email me at craftsewcreate@gmail.com.