Chain Market Quilt Tutorial

**I received the fabric used in this project in order to do an honest review and tutorial.  No other compensation or products were received.  My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**

I LOVE Riley Blake fabrics!! I always get so excited to make a project for them using their products. I especially love making quilts.  It is one of my favorite things to sew even though they can be really time consuming.  I really enjoyed making this quilt.  I was having a major quilters block on design so my AMAZING sister in law Katie from over at choochooskadoo helped in designing this quilt.  She has some great talent in quilting and we have really enjoyed bouncing ideas off of each other and being quilting buddies over the years.

I really hope you enjoy this quilt project as much as I do!!

Finished quilt approximately 72" X 96" (Twin size)

For this project you will need

 96 scrappy quilt square 6 1/2" X 6 1/2" 

2 yards of solid fabric for chain blocks (I used 1 yard Navy Blue and 1 yard Mint Green)

2 yards background fabric 

5/8 yard binding fabric (non-bias binding)

Batting

Backing

For this quilt I chose to use Vintage Market by Riley Blake Designs

 Now on to the tutorial.....

First you will need to cut your 2 yards of solid fabric for the chain blocks and 2 yards of background fabric.  You will start by cutting them into strips 3 1/2" by the width of fabric.  

Take your fabric scraps, fat quarters, or whatever yardage you will use for your scrappy squares and cut 96 squares that are 6 1/2" X 6 1/2"

Take a strip of your background fabric and a strip of your solid fabric for your chain squares and place them right sides together.  Sew the two strips together using a 1/4" seam allowance. (You will use a 1/4" seam allowance on the entire quilt)

Press open your strips pressing towards the darker side

  

Next you will cut the strips so you can make your chain blocks.  Line up your ruler on the seam of the strip and cut it at 3 1/2" wide.

Cut all your strips so you will have all the pieces needed to make your chain blocks.

Take 2 of the same color strips you sewed together and place them right sides together and place a pin at the seam.  Sew a 1/4" seam on each set until you have sewn all your chain blocks together.

 

After you have sewn all the blocks together press all the blocks open. 

You will end up with 96 blocks that look like the block below.

 You will then start laying out all your squares so you can sew your complete blocks together.  See photos below to start laying out your quilt. (See finished quilt below for layout of quilt)

After you get the layout of your quilt going then you can start sewing all your blocks together.  You will sew 4 squares together to make a complete block.  Sew two blocks together with right sides together.  Then you will take the other two squares for that block and sew them right sides together.  So first you can sew the top two squares and then second sew the bottom two squares.  Then you will press them each open going the opposite way so that your seams will nest well together.  Then you will pin the 4 blocks together at the seam like below and then sew them together.

 

 Once you have sewn the blocks together then press them all open like the photo shown below.

Once you have sewn all your blocks together you will then start sewing your rows together like shown below.  Pin two blocks together with right sides together and at all the seams to make sure that the seams are all lined up.  Repeat this step until you have added all the blocks on the row.

Once you have all the rows together you will then sew columns together.  Pin 2 rows together (right sides together) putting pins at all the seams to make sure they are all lined up when you finish the rolls. See the photo below for an example of 2 rows pinned together.  Repeat sewing all the columns together to have the front of your quilt completed.

Your quilt should look similar to the layout below after you are finished sewing all the rows and columns together. 

I decided to just do a simple stipple machine quilting on this quilt.  I didn't want it to look too modern although stipple is a more modern stitch.  I used variegated thread on this quilt which I think turned out great.

I am SO excited with how this quilt turned out!! I am looking forward to using this quilt in my home. 

Thank you for reading my quilt tutorial.  Leave me a comment below telling me what you think. I hope you come visit me again!! 

**I received the fabric used in this project in order to do an honest review and tutorial.  No other compensation or products were received.  My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and others may have a different opinion.**