Make it Yourself: Quilted Shamrock Door Decoration

I enjoy crafting cute things to celebrate the holidays and putting up the decorations certainly helps to relieve some of these winter blues.  For St. Patrick’s day, I decided to create a little quilted shamrock door decoration with a simple shape quilt block.  This quilt block is so easy, it would be great for a beginner.  Grab your fabric and scissors and lets get stitching!

Finished Size  12″ x 12″

what you will need:

• 1/8th yard of green for shamrock
• 1/8th yard of black for background
• 1/2 yard of green print for back, binding and hanger
• 1/2 yard of batting
• Coordinating thread

what you will need to do:

Cut Fabric:

Green for Shamrock

•  8 — 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ strips

Black

• 8 — 2 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ squares
• 2 — 2 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ strips
• 2 — 2 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ strips

Green Print

• 2 1/2 x 60″ strip for binding
• 2 1/2″ x 20″ strip for hanger
• 12 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ square for back

Batting

• 12 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ square

 Sew

1. Place black square on the top of each of the shamrock strips matching the edges.  Mark four strips with a diagonal line to the left and four strips with a diagonal line to the right.
2. Stitch on the lines. Trim.
3. Iron the flaps out.  Sew two strips together to form a point with the shamrock material.
4.  Continue to sew three more.
5. Arrange the four squares so that each point of each square rotates clockwise.
6. Stitch the four squares together. Iron.
7. Sew the black 8 1/2″ strips to each side. Iron.
8. Sew the black 12 1/2″ strips to the top and bottom.

Quilt

1. Assemble the back of the quilt, the batting and the top of the quilt in a quilt sandwich.
2. Baste together with quilting safety pins.
3. Quilt as desired.

Finish

1. Fold the binding in half, wrong sides together, and iron.
2. Attach the binding.
3. Fold the hanger fabric strip in half, right sides together and stitch down the long edge.
4. Turn the hanger right side out and iron flat with the seam on the back.
5. Tuck in the ends and stitch closed.
6. Tie a bow in the top.
7. Attach the ends to the back side of the quilt about 3″ from each side.  I just used a whip stitch.

Hang it on your door to welcome St. Patrick’s Day!

I hope you will try making this cute quilted shamrock door decoration for your home!  May the luck of the Irish be with you!

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