It’s Friday! That means the Boho Beach picnic quilt will be complete today!

I’m so pleased with the softness that the fabrics from the Banyan Batiks Boho Beach collection bring to this comfy, cozy quilt.  

So far this week, if my math adds up, we created:

• (9) 16½” unfinished Pinwheel Blocks using (36) 8½” unfinished Half Square Triangles (HSTs)
• (24) 8½” unfinished pinwheel blocks using (96) 4½” unfinished HSTs
• (16) 4½” unfinished pinwheel blocks using (64) 2½” unfinished HSTs
  

In the next few steps, we’ll complete the remaining units for the quilt top.

Let’s start with the 8½” pinwheel blocks.

Step 1: Pair 2 pinwheel 8½” X 8½” blocks, right sides together and sew a ¼” seam to join them as shown.

The result is (24) 8½”X 18 ½” blocks.

Step 2: Now, pair 4 pinwheel 4½” X 4½” blocks together, two by two.

Step 3: Sew pinwheel blocks to one another in pairs as in Step 1.

Step 4: Sew both 4½” X 8½” block pairs together to make an 8½” X 8½” block. Repeat this process until all 4½” X 8½” pinwheel blocks are paired and sewn into larger units.

After sewing all the separate units into blocks, the next step will be to join the blocks to make the 5 rows that will make the quilt top.

The first row I’ll construct is the 3^rd row.

Once you’ve sewn the 3rd row blocks together, sew rows 1 and 5.

Note the placement of the larger 16½” x 16½” blocks in rows 1 and 5 as compared to row 3.

The last 2 rows that require assembling and sewing are rows 2 and 4.

Sew these as shown as in the following photo using the smaller pinwheel blocks.

Once all 5 rows are sewn, the last step is to sew each row to the next.

Using the layout in the photo that follows as a guide, sew all the strips together to make complete the quilt top.

Wow! Quilt top done!

Now, it’s time to quilt! I’ll leave that part up to your own creativity, imagination and resources.

After the quilting is done, the only sewing left to do is to add the binding to the edges of the quilt.

Normally, I choose a fabric that is the most prominent color in the quilt top. This time I decided to get out of my comfort zone, so I selected this striped fabric from the Yellow colorway in the Banyan Batiks Boho Beach collection.

I’ll cut across the stripes when preparing the binding strips.

With the quilting done and the binding added, the quilt is complete!

The vibrant fabrics from the Banyan Batiks Boho Beach collection have definitely brought our picnic quilt come to life for this and many more picnicking seasons to come!

Thank you all for joining me this week on this summery quilting journey. Now, I hope someone brought lemonade! That sure was thirsty work!

Be sure to come back to QUILTsocial next week, I hear we’re reviewing batting!