THE PATRIOT Clue #5

Mystery A7 - THE PATRIOT
Clue #5

MQ4M Clue 5

You need to gather your 16 Blue Star Blocks, your 12 Red White Red Rails, and your 8 White Red White Rails – basically all of the blocks ;-)

You will sew 4 Big Blocks that look like this:

  you will use 2 of your white/red/white blocks, and 3 of your Red/white/red blocks, and 4 stars per block 

Putting it all together!!    Are you ready?

Lay out the inner top like this:

I then stitched my Star/Stripe pieces to the Rail piece.

Then sewed them into halves, then the whole – and it worked pretty slick!

Next you need to measure the top – it should measure about 55 x 73. 

You will then add a little Navy Blue Border – it is 1 ½ inches wide.  I needed 7 Width of fabric strips to piece the tiny border, or you can use scraps.

Add the border – top first, then the sides.

Next you will take the two smaller peppermint pieces and lay them out as sewn. 

Because they all won’t be the same length, lay them out – then measure what is left.  Add ½ inch to the measurement and cut a 3 ½ inch wide piece by that length, in your White

Do this for both the top and bottom, then apply those borders.

Next you will lay the larger peppermint pieces out, and do the same thing to make the SIDE border.  These will go on the right and left sides.

And ta-da! Your quilt top is finished!!

Because I get to do mine before you ... I even got mine Quilted... and ... are you ready for this??? I bound it!! I didn't even beg someone else to do it - so I could keep it a secret.... I get points for that ... right??

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