Quilter's 10" Square Precut Companion: Handy Reference Guide & 20+ Block Patterns

By Jenny Doan

Everything you need to know about making quilts with 10-inch square precuts.

Master 10” square precuts with this complete and indispensable guide! Sew 20+ traditional blocks with timesaving tips and tricks from the one and only Missouri Star Quilt Company. You’ll cover all the basics, including easy half-square triangle construction, cutting other shapes from 10” squares, and guidelines of how many 10” square packs are needed for different size quilts. Easy-to-use illustrations are at your fingertips in this useful, information-packed reference.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Aug 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644030325

Jenny Doan

Jenny Doan is the smiling face of Missouri Star Quilt Company. Stitching together simplified quilts full of love and laughter, she makes quilting easier, more accessible, and friendlier than ever before. Watching her tutorials feels like coming home again. With over 750,000 YouTube subscribers and more than 225 million views to date, Jenny has sparked enthusiasm for quilting and warmed her viewer’s hearts across the globe. When she moved with her growing family to Missouri over 20 years ago, she never imagined that someday they’d have a successful quilting business. Like many small towns across America, employment was scarce, so in November 2008, on a modest budget, the Doan family bought a building in Hamilton and started Missouri Star Quilt Company. At first, they offered basic quilting supplies and machine quilting services, but business picked up when they started posting videos of Jenny teaching quilting tutorials online. From that time on her life changed forever.

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10˝ Square Tips and Techniques

TWO HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLE UNITS

Layer (2) 10˝ squares right sides together. On the top square, mark a line from corner to corner once on the diagonal. Sew on either side of the drawn line. Cut on the drawn line. Open, press, and square to 9½˝.

FOUR HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLE UNITS

Layer (2) 10˝ squares right sides together. Sew all the way around the outer edge with a ¼˝ seam allowance. Cut the sewn squares from corner to corner twice on the diagonal. Open, press, and square to 6½˝.

EIGHT HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLE UNITS

Layer (2) 10˝ squares right sides together. On the top square, draw a line from corner to corner twice on the diagonal. Sew on both sides of the drawn lines. Cut the sewn squares through the center horizontally and vertically, then on the drawn lines. Open, press, and square to 4½˝.

ADDING SNOWBALL PIECES

Draw a line from corner to corner on the back of a small square. Place a small square on one corner of a larger square with right sides facing. Sew on the marked line, then trim and press.

10˝ SQUARES AND QUILT SIZES

If no other fabric is used, how many packages of 10˝ squares

do you need for your quilts?

Crib quilt: 1 package … 38˝ × 57˝ quilt size, 4 × 6 layout

Lap quilt: 1 package … 47½˝ × 66½˝ quilt size, 5 × 7 layout

Twin quilt: 2 packages … 57˝ × 95˝ quilt size, 6 × 10 layout

Double quilt: 2 packages … 76˝ × 95˝ quilt size, 8 × 10 layout

Queen quilt: 3 packages … 76˝ × 104½˝ quilt size, 8 × 11 layout

King quilt: 3 packages … 95˝ × 104½˝ quilt size, 10 × 11 layout

CUTTING FROM 10˝ SQUARES

What can you get from each 10˝ square?

Rectangles:

•  2 rectangles 5˝ × 10˝

•  4 rectangles 2½˝ × 10˝

•  5 rectangles 2˝ × 10˝

Squares:

•  4 squares 5˝ × 5˝

•  16 squares 2½˝ × 2½˝

Triangles:

•  2 half-square triangles, finishing to 9˝

•  4 quarter-square triangles, finishing to 8½˝

MAKING YOUR OWN 10˝ SQUARES

Want to try out a block but don’t have 10˝ squares? Use yardage!

Fat Quarter:

•  You can cut 2 squares 10˝ × 10˝ from each fat quarter (as well as

a bonus of 4 squares 5˝ × 5˝ and