2020 50 States Accuquilt QUBE Quilt Along QOV Quilt of Valor Block #1 and #2

Are you excited to start this Quilt Along? (QAL)

There’s more information about yardage and QUBE requirements here

This week I figured we’d start off with the only 2 blocks that use the 12″ QUBE set!

This first one is NY!

Here’s some info about the Empire state

Admission to Statehood: July 26, 1788 (11th State)

• The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.

• The 641 mile transportation network known as the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway is the longest toll road in the United States.

• The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing.

• Dairying is New York’s most important farming activity with over 18,000 cattle and or calves farms.

• New York City has 722 miles of subway track.

• Oneida is home of the world’s smallest church with the dimensions of 51″ x 81″.

• The “New York Post” established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.

• John Babcock invented both the indoor rowing machine and the sliding seat during the winter of 1869/1870.

• The first railroad in America ran a distance of 11 miles between Albany and Schenectady.

• The Genesee River is one of the few rivers in the world that flows south to north.

• Rochester is known as both the Flour City and the Flower City. The community is home to the first abolitionist group, bloomers, marshmallows, Jell-O, French’s Mustard, baby shoes, gold teeth and the mail chute.

• Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria in 1895 in New York City.

• On July 28, 1945 an Army Air Corps B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building at the 79th floor level.

• European settlers who brought seeds to New York introduced apples in the 1600s.

• The Big Apple is a term coined by musicians meaning to play the big time.

• Joseph C. Gayetty of New York City invented toilet paper in 1857.

• Adirondack Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Olympic Parks combined.

• New York was the first state to require license plates on cars.

• Niagara Reservation became the first state park in the United States.

• New York State is home to 58 species of wild orchids.

• The first presidential inauguration: George Washington took the oath of office in New York City on April 30, 1789.

 

The second block is Utah

 

Here’s some info about the beehive state

Entered Union (rank): Jan. 4, 1896 (45)

The name Utah comes from the Native American Ute tribe and means people of the mountains.

Completion of the world’s first transcontinental railroad was celebrated at Promontory where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met on May 10, 1869. It is now known as Golden Spike National Historic Site

Utah is the site of the nations first department store. Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution was established in the late 1800’s. It is still in operation today as ZCMI.

Rainbow Bridge, Nature’s abstract sculpture carved of solid sandstone, is the world’s largest natural-rock span. It stands 278 feet wide and 309 feet high.

The Great Salt Lake covers 2,100 square miles, with an average depth of 13 feet. The deepest point is 34 feet.

The average snowfall in the mountains near Salt Lake City is 500 inches.

Because of the state’s inland location Utah’s snow is unusually dry. Earning it the reputation of having the world’s greatest powder. 14 Alpine ski resorts operate in Utah.

Salt Lake City was originally named Great Salt Lake City. Great was dropped from the name in 1868.

The city of Hurricane lies in line with traffic going to the National Parks and Lake Powell. Average daily traffic on Hurricane’s State Street is 7,397 visitors per day, or over 2.7 million visitors a year.

Utah is the only state whose capital’s name is made of three words. All three words in Salt Lake City have four letters each.

Utah was acquired by the United States in 1848 in the treaty ending the Mexico War.

The largest public employer in Utah is the Utah State Government.

Utah has the highest literacy rate in the nation.

Now on to the cutting directions!

I’ll first provide the QUBE cutting directions and then rotary cutting 🙂

And you saw the link with yardage requirements already

As I was cutting and writing down how to cut, I made a little chart below with QUBE sizes, so we’ll be cutting AS many as needed for that one fabric and die shape as we progress, you’ll see.

Here’s my fabrics, all solids.

White, light blue, dark blue, red and dark red.

and these two blocks are using the 12″ QUBE set!!

With white and dark red, cut a 7 3/4″ WOF (Width of fabric) strip and cut out (4) EACH of die shape#4

Then with red cut out a 7″ WOF strip and cut out (1) of shape #1

With White cut out (1) of shape #6 (I think I cut from the leftover strip, I can’t remember)

Then also with white cut out (8) of shape #5

Then with light blue cut a 4 3/4″ WOF strip and cut out (8) of shape #5

and with dark blue also cut a 4 3/4″ WOF strip and cut (4) of shape #5

With leftover white (it was a tight squeeze for me) cut (4) of shape #2

and with light blue also cut (4) of shape #2

Rotary cutting:

With White and dark red cut a 7 1/4″ Square, cut diagonally TWICE to get 4 triangles

With red cut a 6 1/2″ Square

With white AND light Blue cut (4) 3 1/2″ squares

With light blue cut (4) 3 7/8″squares cut diagonally to get 8 triangles, also cut 8 white triangles and 4 dark blue triangles the same way

with white cut (1) 4 3/4″ square

Here’s all my pieces ready for the two blocks!

We’ll  be sewing them together at the same time, so it’s easy peasy!

You can lay out the block pieces like this if you want before you start.

First I sewed the dark blue small #5 triangles to the sides of shape #6 white square (the 4 3/4″ rotary cut square)

Then sets of 4 flying geese each, dark red large triangles with white side triangles (#5)

and large white triangles with light blue side triangles.

You really can’t go wrong here. I love how the dog ears are cut off of all the triangles, so when I iron it all stays square!

and ALWAYS IRON SEAMS OPEN!!

I know it’s tempting especially on the left block section to iron the seams toward the blue, but DON’T, then when the rest of the block goes together it creates an odd bulk in the middle, when ironing seams open, it prevents that!

Now sew block sections together like this, the two blocks are very similar but the geese are flipped in the Utah block, and of course it has the diamond in the middle.

and VOILA! the blocks are done!!

This will probably be the only time- at least for a long time where we sew two blocks together at the same time, I might do two blocks in a blog post but then I’ll show one block at a time, this time it was just easier to get the two 12″ QUBE blocks done and out of the way…

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