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Cottage Patchwork Shower Curtain

Brighten your morning routine with a quilted shower curtain made from your favorite fabrics.

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What You Need
  • 6 -- 2/3 yard pieces assorted pink prints and green prints (blocks)
  • 2-1/2 yards pink floral (border)
  • 4-1/8 yards solid white (lining)
  • 2 X 72" strip heavyweight fusible interfacing
  • Embroidery floss: cream
  • 25 -- 1/2"-diameter buttons
  • Plastic shower curtain liner
  • Shower curtain rings or hooks

Fast-Piecing Secrets
  • Use a 1/4" seam guide.
  • Press or pin pieces together before sewing, but don't sew over the pins.
  • Engage your machine's walking foot to reduce stretching pieces while sewing.
  • Chain-piece blocks and rows.
  • Place a block that is slightly longer than the other on the bottom. The feed dogs will ease in the bit of extra fullness.
  • Use strip sets, when possible, to sew-cuts-sew blocks, such as Nine-Patch, instead of working with individual pieces.
  • Clip threads as you go, so you don't have to work around extra threads.
  • Organize your sewing-have all pieces ready to sew, extra bobbins wound, and your iron on and close by.

Cut Your Fabrics:

From each assorted pink print and green print, cut:
-- 6 --10-1D2" squares

From pink floral, cut:
--2 --6-1/2 X 74-1/4" border strips
--1 --4-1/2 X 72-1/2" header strip
--1 --10-1/4 X 60-1/2" border strip
--1 --4-1/2 X 60-1/2" border strip

From solid white, cut:
--1 --36-1/2 X 73-1/4" rectangle
--2 --18-1/2 X 73-1/4" rectangles


Continued on page 2:  How To Make It

 

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