Lissa Alexander - Lucky Charm Quilts: 17 Delightful Patterns for Precut 5 Squares

17 Delightful Patterns for Precut 5" Squares

Compiled by Lissa Alexander

Moda All-Stars

Lucky Charm Quilts: 17 Delightful Patterns for Precut 5" Squares

2017 by Martingale & Company

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eBook Edition: 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

eISBN: 978-1-60468-847-4

Original Source ISBN: 978-1-60468-846-7

SPECIAL THANKS

Thanks to Suzie and Bernhard Bauer of Snohomish, Washington, and Lynn Austin of Kirkland, Washington, for allowing the photography for this book to take place in their homes.

Everyone loves a charm pack. What quilter can resist the delightful little bundles of 5" squares that include at least one square (sometimes two!) of every fabric in a collection? Shops often keep these impulse-worthy bundles near the checkout stand. Its so easy to toss another charm pack on the pile!

But lets be real. Sometimes our enthusiasm to acquire outpaces our plan to sew these little bundles. What to do? Stop collecting? Never! Its time to turn those charm squares into fabulous quilts.

Youre in luck! Enter the talented, creative, and always-charming Moda All-Stars designers. This time, theyve got you covered with projects as easy as 1, 2, 3one, two, or three charm packs, that is! Every project in this book begins with charm packs. Add some background fabric and youre all set.

And best of all, know that your purchase of this book makes you a lucky charm, of sorts, for children with cancer. All royalties for the book are being donated to Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation ( AlexsLemonade.org ), an organization dedicated to raising funds for research into new treatments and cures for all children battling cancer. Together, lets do good and quilt an end to this disease forever.

~Lissa Alexander

FINISHED QUILT: 21" x 26"

FINISHED BLOCKS: 3" x 3" and 3" x 5"

CHARM PACKS NEEDED:

Dress up a table or wall with a cheerful checkered quilt in a classic combination of red, cream, and blue. Use a charm pack that includes a variety of red on cream prints to add a scrappy touch.

Yardage is based on 42"-wide fabric. Charm squares are 5" x 5".

32 cream print charm squares for blocks

3 red print charm squares for accent squares

yard of red print for blocks and binding

yard of blue plaid linen/cotton for rectangles

yard of fabric for backing

26" x 31" piece of batting

Depending on your fabric, more yardage might be needed to fussy-cut the rectangles to center the plaid motif.

All measurements include "-wide seam allowances.

From each cream print charm square, cut:

2 strips, 1" x 5" (64 total)

From each red print charm square, cut:

1 square, 4" x 4" (3 total)

From the red print for blocks and binding, cut:

3 strips, 5" x 42"; crosscut the strips into 65 strips, 1" x 5"

3 strips, 2" x 42"

Feel free to cut wider binding strips if desired.

From the blue plaid, cut:

6 rectangles, 4" x 5"

Laurie fussy-cut the blue plaid, centering the intersecting blue lines in each rectangle.

Press the seam allowances as indicated by the arrows.

Sew one cream strip between two red strips to make strip set A. Make 22. From each strip set, crosscut two 1"-wide segments for a total of 44 A segments.

Sew one red strip between two cream strips to make strip set B. Make 21. From each strip set, crosscut two 1"-wide segments for a total of 42 B segments.

To make block A, arrange two A segments and one B segment in three rows as shown. Join the rows. Make 10 A blocks measuring 4" square.