We’re over halfway done with the Sweet Home Quilt Along now and welcome back for Week 4! This week Maureen and I are piecing the Corner Stone squares and adding sashing to the Corner Stone blocks and house blocks—basically your goal is to have a quilt top or close to a quilt top by next Wednesday on Week 5 when we finish any assembly to start sandwiching our layers and quilting!

I know many of you have only just joined the quilt along so don’t worry about being behind. Even though we have a schedule that my co-host Maureen Cracknell and I are following to present the QAL, this is a go-at-your-own-pace sew along and we want happy makers rather than stressed makers!

If you’re brand new to quilting or QALs then be sure to check out the Sweet Home QAL Tutorials page where I’ve added helpful step-by-step videos you can sew along with. A new video is added for Week 4 on piecing the Corner Stone squares and for adding the sashing.

The Corner Stone squares will seem really easy now that you have this Log Cabin rounds type of assembly under your belt from piecing the Log Cabin and Bungalow blocks. Just make sure you orient your Corner Squares with the smallest rings at top and bottom when sewing into the sashing and assembling the top. This keeps all those same elements of the blocks running the same direction throughout the quilt.

Embellishing

If you’re planning on adding any trim or Chenille-it embellishments to your house blocks you may want to do so before you assemble the top and add the sashing. I’ve several tutorials for how to apply Chenille-It Blooming Bias to a project. Check these out:

Chenille Pillow with Hidden Zipper

HST Chenille Pillow

Chenille Pillows

Faux Chenille Binding Video

Last year during our first Sweet Home Quilt Along I noticed a typo in the pattern. It doesn’t really affect any of the cutting or material instructions but can certainly cause some confusion if you have an original version and when reading the sashing assembly portion of the pattern. See typo notice below.

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For this week's Sweet Home Giveaway, Oliso is offering an incredible prize where TWO lucky winners will receive an Oliso mini iron—just like the one’s Maureen and I use. The Oliso Mini comes in four fun color options and each Oliso Mini Project Iron™ comes with its solemate™, a silicone trivet that hugs the mini iron for travel and storage and functions as a safe place for the soleplate to rest while ironing.

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Congratulations to Jane T. and Teresa!

*Note: This giveaway is open to QAL Members and will ship to US and Canada addresses only (sorry Members beyond those boarders). If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment--you can't win if I can't contact you!

1. Simply leave a comment here under this post! (Counts as first comment entry.)

2. Leave a comment and let me know if you’ve been keeping pace with the QAL schedule or maybe you’ve already finished your top or quilt—tell me where you’re at in the assembly on Week 4. (This comment counts as a second entry). 

3. Following me (Sharon), Maureen, and Oliso qualifies you to make a third entry and ups your chances to win this fantastic prize! Just let me know the social platform you’re following us on by making a separate comment on this post (counts as a third entry).

That’s THREE possible entries and up to three chances to win! Enter now through Sunday, September 19, 2021. I’ll be drawing TWO lucky winners from the comment pool on this post. The winning comments will be picked at random around 4 pm Eastern. I’ll post the name of the winners on this post once they've been notified and responded to my email.

Next week we’ll put together the quilt top (if you haven’t done so this week) and get ready for quilting and finishing! I’ve a special guest interview video with Stephanie Hackney from Hobbs Batting to help you debunk the mysteries of selecting the right batting for your quilt. Plus, I’ll give you a sneak peek into a pillow project I’m working on using those scrap half-square triangle corners left over from trimming the roofs.

If you’re on Instagram, we’re loving seeing all your Sweet Home quilt progress photos so keep those coming! Tag us @maureencracknell and @sharonhollanddesigns and use the #sweethomeqal2021 hashtag so we don’t miss any of it.

Thanks for joining us on this fun quilt along, we’re so happy you’re here!

Sharon & Maureen

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