Turnstile Table Topper {Week 18/52}

Earlier this week, I got scrappy with some teeny pieces of Flower Sugar and finished this.

It’s actually a doll quilt for my swap partner in the DQS14 swap, over on Flickr. I blogged about it HERE if you’d like to see it as a mini quilt.

For the purpose of this blog post, I’m going to call it a table topper… because I think it really does make a good looking table topper.

I’m going to share how I made the little Turnstile Blocks – perfect for using and highlighting precious scraps of fabric… and they finish at a very cute 5” square.

White:

(2) 3 3/8” squares – cut diagonally to make 4 half square triangles.

(1) 3 3/4” square – cut across both diagonal corners to make 4 quarter square triangles

Print Fabric:

(1) 3 3/4” square – cut across both diagonal corners to make 4 quarter square triangles

The photo (below) may make it easier.

Sew the print fabric and white solid QSTs and press the seams open.

Trim those little fabric ears and sew these newly pieced triangles, to the white solid HSTs (like below).

Arrange all of the newly pieced squares, just like the photo below and sew the top two, and the bottom two.

Press the seams to opposite sides. Sew the two halves together.

Press, trim and admire your cute little 5” (finished) Turnstile block.

If you’d like to go ahead and use these blocks for make a little table topper… or ahem… doll quilt, here are the rest of the measurements.

Centre Square is 5 1/2”

The 4 (red) corners are made up (2) 4 3/8” squares, cut on the diagonal to yield 4 HSTs.

The larger triangles (between the turnstiles) are made with an 8 1/4” square, cut on both diagonals to yield 4 QSTs.

The borders are 2” wide strips.

I finished it by pressing some fusible fleece to the back and hand quilting with some Finca Perle 8 cotton in black. The binding is 3/4” rather than 1/2”. I like a wider binding.