Well I am pretty proud of myself.  I promised myself to get two blog posts done in a month and here is the second one! I even did it in the shortest month of the year too, with a few days to spare.  So yup that's my goal this year, trying for two tutorial posts a month.  Hoping this goal with help me with traffic to my site and to help me finish some projects that I haven't and ones that are rolling around in my head. Anyway enough chatting, lets get to my block tutorial.

I'm pretty excited about my tutorial theme for the month.  10" pre-cut squares.  They are so cut, and so much more versital then anyone gives them credit for.  I love pre cuts because I don't have to spend any extra time picking out coordinating fabrics, washing, drying, and then squaring any of it up.  With pre-cuts you can get right to the fun part, putting your project together.  I honestly think they save you more than just time, money as well.  I chose Primrose Garden from Riley Blake Designs, and it comes with eighteen 10" sqaures, if I was going to the fabric store for that many fabrics for a quilt, I think I might break my bank.  Stackers are fairly inexpensive.  You can find some in my etsy shop here, I only have a few left of Primrose Garden.  Well with our further ado, lets find out how to make these super beautiful blocks.

Have many of you have seen the Disney Movie UP?  Isn’t it such a cute sweet movie. Loved it. My favorite parts are usually with the talking dogs.  I think it is because I relate a lot to them.  I totally act like them when it comes to fabric, and crafty things.  You know the part where the dog is talking and then all of a sudden stops and blurts out ‘Squirrel!’.  Yep, that’s me in a fabric or craft store.  This can be problematic when trying to narrow down my selections of fabrics.  But that’s where the fabric industry comes in saving everyone like me a lot of trouble.  They invented these great things called pre cuts!   Love them, they are pre cut stacks or rolls of fabric from individual fabric lines all in one nice and neat ready to sew package.  But then my biggest problem comes down to what do I do with a stack of 10” squares, sew them all together? Boring.  So it was time to switch it up a bit.  And that’s where this tutorial comes in.

No need to cut out squares, already done! Saves me time already, I like it.  Throw some borders around the block and it is an A+ eye catcher.  You friends and family will think you spent hours and days matching up fabric and patterns, and piecing, and it won’t take you more than an afternoon to throw together! Let’s get started on how to piece this block!

Today I am just posting on how to piece these blocks together.  It is up to you how ever you want to finish your quilt, I added borders and sashing, making each block stand alone in all it's glory.

Supplies

1- 20 Block 10” Stacker

                *I Used Country Girls from Riley Blake Designs it had 21 blocks so I didn’t use one block*

Tools

Cutting Mat

Quilting ruler

Rotary cutter

Pins, Thread, Sewing machine

Cutting the Blocks

1.       Before any cutting can commence you first need to open your stacker and admire the fabric. My favorite part J *sigh*. 

2.       Now that you have your squares laid out, you can now pair them together however you want.  One way that helps me is I try to find contrasting colors that look nice together.

3.       Take your first pair of 10” blocks, stacking them on top of one another (saves cutting time) line them up super good and make these cuts starting from the left               Measure over 3” and cut
               Measure over 4” and cut
 Total strips and measurement for 1 block are 2- 3” strips and 1- 4” strip