capitol city quilt guild
multi color stripe

Tiny Treats

Brought to you by Ellen Mills and Wilma Rhodes.

Tiny Treats is a quilt block raffle held each month for members only. Patterns and instructions are included in the newsletter and linked off the home page. Make as many three blocks and enter your name once for each one.

multi color stripe

Peony

January, 2013


12" Finished / 12 1/2" Unfinished


 Cut  Amount  Size
 Color A
 2  3 7/8” squares; cut 1 square diagonally
 Color B
 2  3 7/8” squares; cut 1 square diagonally
 Color C
 2  3 7/8” squares; cut 1 square diagonally
 Green
 2  3 7/8” x 9 1/2”  rectangles
 White  2  3 7/8” x 9 1/2”  rectangles
   2  3 1/2” squares
   6  3 7/8” squares; cut 3 squares diagonally

FLOWER
Place a white 3 7/8” square over a color A square.  Draw a diagonal line and sew 1/4” on each side of the line.  Cut on the line.

Place color B over C and repeat above.

Sew the triangles into squares (caution: bias stretches). Sew color A to color C; sew color A to color B; sew color C to white; and sew color B to white.

Following the picture, lay out the flower portion of the block. Sew the flower together.

LEAVES - read carefully
Draw a diagonal line from upper left to lower right on 1 white rectangle and 1 green rectangle.

With the short base facing you, cut ¼” to the right of the line on he green, and cut 1/4” to the left of the line on the white.

Lay the bigger pieces together and sew on the lines to form a 3½” x 9½”  rectangle.

Draw a diagonal line from upper right to lower left on 1 white rectangle and 1 green rectangle.

With the short base facing you, cut ¼”to the left of the line on the green and cut ¼” to the right of the line on the white.

Lay the bigger pieces together and sew on the lines to form a 3½” x 9½” rectangle.

Sew one 3½” square to the green base of one of the leaves.  Add he leaves to the flower.