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Quilt Block: Hope of Hartford Quilt Block Tutorial

Alanda Craft November 28, 2016 5 Comments This post may contain affiliate links.

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The Hope of Hartford quilt block is a lovely block that looks nice when it is done with three different fabrics, but of course, you can use more if you wish. We have used a light, medium and dark fabric.

Watch the video tutorial below or scroll down for the written instructions

What You Need for a 10″x 10″ finished block (10½” unfinished):

Light fabric

  •  1 piece  5 ¼” square.
  • 4 strips  2½” by 4½”

Medium fabric

  • 1 piece  5 ¼” square.
  • 1 piece 2½” square.

Dark fabric

  • 2 pieces 4 7/8″

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Measurements for a 12″ Finished Block

To make the Hope of Hartford quilt block as a 12″ finished block (12.5″ unfinished) use the following measurements:

Light fabric

  •  1 piece  6″ square.
  • 4 strips   5 ¼” by 2 7/8″

Medium fabric

  • 1 piece  6″ square.
  • 1 piece 2 7/8″ square.

Dark fabric

  • 2 pieces 5 5/8″

TOOLS USED IN THIS TUTORIAL

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  • Creative Grids Ruler 8½” x 24½” 
  • Olfa 24″ x 36″ double-sided healing mat
  • Olfa 60mm rotary cutter
  • Oliso Iron
  • Gutermann Sew-All thread
  • Quilters slidelock

Method:

  • Slice the dark square on the diagonal from corner to corner.
  • Do this with both the  4 7/8″ pieces.

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  • You now have 4 triangles.

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  • Slice the light and the medium squares diagonal from corner to corner.

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  • Now slice from corner to corner, diagonally, on the other side.

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  • You now have 4 triangles in both the medium and the light colours.

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  • Lay the pieces out on the mat as shown in the picture.

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  • We are going to sew the small triangles together first.
  • Take one light triangle and one medium triangle and place them one on top of the other with right sides facing.
  • Sew them together with a ¼” seam.

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  • Press the seam towards the darker fabric.
  • Do this for all four sets of small triangles.
  • Place them back into their position in the block.

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  • Take the large triangle and place it, right  sides together on top of the two triangles you have just sewn together.
  • Sew the two pieces together with a ¼” seam.

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  • Press the seam to the dark side.

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  • Do this to create all four triangle sets.

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  • Take one of the 2½” by 4½” strips and place it right sides together over the square you have just created.
  • Sew along the edges with a ¼” seam.

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  • Press the seam towards the rectangle side.

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  • Add the strips as shown to each of the remaining squares.

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  • Take the 2½” square of fabric and fold it in half.
  • Finger press a crease.
  • Take a Frixion pen or other fabric pen and draw a line at the half way point.

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  • Now its time to attach the rectangles to the middle square.
  • Place the square in the corner of one of the triangles. Right sides together.
  • Backstitch at the start.
  • Sew along the edge until you reach the pen line. Backstitch.

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  • Press the seam towards the square.
  • Take the next rectangle piece and line it up with the rectangle that has the square attached. Right sides together.
  • Sew the two pieces together with a ¼” seam.
  • Press the seam towards the square.

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  • Take the next rectangle piece and place it right sides together over the piece you have just sewn.
  • Sew together with a ¼” seam.
  • Press the seam towards the square.

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  • Now we come to adding the last rectangle and this one is a little different.
  • Remember  how we only sewed half the square to the first block, well that was because now we need to be able to attach the last block.
  • Lift the loose end of the square and flatten it out.
  • Place the two edges, right sides together, and pin.
  • Take your time to make sure the edges are flat.
  • Sew together with a ¼” seam.

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  • We are now going to sew the last seam.
  • Fold the bottom rectangle up.

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  • Line up the edges.
  • We are going to start stitching from where we left off at the beginning.
  • So line your needle up with the backstitching at the middle of the square.
  • Backstitch – we do this because this seam won’t be sewn onto any other seam and we don’t want it to unravel.
  • Sew from the centre of the square out to the edge.

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And there you  have it. This is a lovely block that is well worth making and once you have tried it you will find it really easy to do.

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  •  You can put this block together using sashing between the blocks.

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  • Or you can simply sew the blocks together.

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Comments

  1. Tina says

    November 29, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Very pretty and easy, thank you Alanda!

    Reply
  2. Anne says

    April 12, 2019 at 2:31 am

    Very nice tutorial!! Clear description of something that could be confusing.

    Reply
    • Alanda says

      April 12, 2019 at 10:14 am

      Thank you Anne. This is such a lovely clean looking block. It’s one of my favourites 🙂

      Reply
  3. Kate says

    August 23, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!…. You did a wonderful job of explaining this block.
    I’ll definitely be making this! Kate

    Reply
    • Alanda Craft says

      August 26, 2019 at 9:35 am

      Excellent, so good to hear Kate.

      Reply

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