Pieced Boat Quilt Block Template printable pdf download

Pieced Boat Quilt Block Template

Foundation Paper-Pieced Boat Block

(8 ½” x 8 ½” unfinished)

1. Turn pattern over and trace reverse image to non-shiny side of freezer paper. Include numbers and colors.

Freezer-paper pattern with sewing lines will be on back of block.

When printing from computer, make sure

the size of the pattern without seam allowance is 8” x 8“.

(Enlarge pattern on copier, if necessary.)

2. Cut fabric for each part of block, using measurements on pattern – sky, boat, sail, mast, and water.

Measurements are generous and include seam allowance.

3. Using 1.5 stitch length, sew sections in numerical order, leaving ¼” seam allowance on inside edges and

½” seam allowance on outer edges of block. (Extra seam allowance on outside edges will make it easier to

square completed block.)

4. Trim completed block to 8 ½” x 8 ½” and keep paper on back until block is sewn into its final place.

Paper will keep bias edges from stretching. Unfinished block must be 8 ½” x 8 ½”.

Note: Paper-piecing is one method to construct block. Pattern can be used to make templates by adding

¼” seam allowance around all pattern edges and piecing block with scant ¼” seams.

Marsha Walper 2015

generous ¼” outside seam allowance on all four sides of block

Pieced Boat Quilt Block Template