SEMINOLE PATCHWORK

The most basic design is a quick way of making blocks on point. For the scrap quilter, it is a good way of making a border of scrap blocks set off by a neutral fabric.

Cut your scraps into equal sized squares. Accuracy is key in Seminole patchwork.

Next, cut a neutral fabric into long strips, which are as wide as the scrap squares.

Sew the scrap squares between two strips of neutral fabric, like this:

Cut the strips apart so that you now have a rectangle made of three squares: a square of neutral, a scrap square, and another square of neutral. It is important that the edges be straight and the two neutral sides are even.

Shift one rectangle down so that the top edge of the uppermost neutral square on the right is even with the top edge of the scrap square on the left. Sew the rectangles together. Keep adding rectangles in this manner. You will get a strip that looks like this:

Keep adding rectangles until you have a strip as long as you want. Turn the strip so that the scrap squares are all on point (standing on one corner). Trim the upper and lower corners off the neutral squares (see the dotted line in the previous picture).

You now have a strip that looks like this, and is ready to be used in your quilt.

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