![]() ![]() Now, you’ll sew your strips together and press. So line your ruler up along the bottom and trim. Once you’ve arranged them to your liking, we need to trim. I’ve kept out 4 strips, 3 to set sideways and 1 to lean. Once you’ve cut out each strip, you can play with the layout making some books taller than others. Now, turn and line up your ruler and beginning cutting out each strip. and sew on until you’ve added all your strips. Line the background fabric up on your machine and place a strip short edge down as shown. I cut about a 10″ or so by width of fabric of white Kona. So, let’s get started.įirst you’ll need some long trimmed strips in various widths and a large piece of background fabric with a straight edge. This takes the quick out of this project but it is still easy! This tutorial is going to show you how to quickly make this block on the fly without really measuring anything. Add it to the center of the two strip halves and then trim the strip. If you want to add selvages as the book titles, you can cut your strips in half, add a piece of the block fabric to the top and bottom of the selvage like shown above so you just have a small piece showing your title. This is also a great project to use up some of those scraps! You can add a shelf underneath like the one above, string a few blocks together and then add your shelf, or leave it off. You can add selvages for the book titles as I did in this one, hand or machine embroider titles, or leave blank. You can make a mini quilt to hang on your wall or make a bunch of them and put them together for a bookshelf quilt. ![]() Here’s a tutorial to show you how to make some for yourself! These bookshelf blocks are so cute! They are also quick and easy to make. ![]()
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