Boston Roads Block ~ a Tutorial

Boston Roads Block

and original block

block size 12.5" by 16.5"

 

This block will be sent to

 

 

@

Boston Modern Quilt Guild

 

I like the look of this block a lot and am thinking I am going to make a quilt someday with this idea.  The trick would be to make the long "curb" lines connect.  I have a good idea how I would do this, but it is going to have to take a place in line in "the quilty queue."

How I made this block:

 

I gathered my blue, yellow, gray scraps and strips

and cut 2.5" x 4.5" bricks

 

laid them out and made a plan

 

 

I sewed the roes together left to right

 

 

I like to leave the thread between the rows uncut

to keep the pieced in the right places

 

 

the block laid out with the rows attached

 

 

I used my seam roller to press the s eams in opposite directions

 

 

to nest the seams

 

 

I do not use pins;  I align by touch.

 

 

I give the block a good pressing with Best Press.

I added the yellow corner as for a snowball block.

I fold the square in half and use my seam roller to show the center line.

I stitch just to the outside of the line.

 



fold over and press with the seam roller.

 



ooops!

 

At this point I realized that I did not have enough rows for my block to finish to 12.5" on the bottom edge.

...

So back to the planning board, I laid out another row on the left.

 

adding the row

 

the right size

 

adding the blue corner

 

I like to run a second line of stitches a half inch to the outside of the stitching line and cut the middle to form a HST with the corner pieces

for my scrap drawer full of HSTs. I use these as needed for blocks.

 

two corners done

 

 

adding the 1.25" strip for the curb

 

 

cutting the corner triangles

adding the gray corner

 

 

I used the lines on my mat  to get the same angle

and my ruler to measure the distance to the opposite corner

the corners are not the same size as the one on the right is longer

but the corner angles are aligned.

 

  trimming

 

squaring to 12.5 by 16.5"

 

 

The Boston Roads Block

 

I made this block in memory of Sean.

 

Tomorrow I am off to the post office to mail my blocks

 

to the

 

Boston Modern Quilt Guild

 

for

 

Quilts For Boston

 

~ <3 ~