Island Chain - 5 - Cutting
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This session you will be cutting the reminder of the fabric pieces.
You will need:
- all of your remaining fabrics
- a rotary cutter with a sharp blade
- cutting mat
- a ruler
Rather than jumping between pages, the cutting instructions have been consolidated into charts below.
Also, the pattern designer suggests cutting small 1½” squares for the nine-patch blocks. You can go ahead and do this if you wish, but a less labour intensive method would be to make the nine-patch blocks from strips, as will be tackled in session #6. The cutting charts below show cutting for the strip method.
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Version 1 |
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Background fabric |
9 - 9½” x WOF strips → sub-cut into 84 - 9½” x 3½” rectangles (sashing) 8 - 1½” x WOF strips (Inner Border) 16 - 1½” x half WOF strips |
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Island Colours fabrics |
From a variety of fabrics, a total of 20 - 1½” x half WOF strips |
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Outer Border |
9 - 3½” x WOF strips |
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Binding |
9 - 2½” x WOF strips |
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Version 2 |
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Background fabric |
6 - 9½” x WOF strips → sub-cut into 60 - 9½” x 3½” rectangles (sashing) 3 - 4½” x WOF strips → sub-cut into 23 - 4½” squares (Border). Put into container B 5 - 4” x WOF strips → sub-cut into 46 - 4” squares (Border). Put into container C 11 - 1½” x half WOF strips |
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Island Colours fabrics |
From a variety of fabrics, 46 - 4½” squares (Border). Put into container A From a variety of fabrics, 13 - 1½” x half WOF strips |
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Binding |
8 - 2½” x WOF strips |