Catherdral Window pattern is featured

By Janice M. Howard / Style Editor for the Southern Standard

Beth Jones, program leader, displays a table runner featuring the Cathedral Window pattern as she shares her creative talents with area homemakers at the FCE Clubs’ craft activity session.

Beth Jones, a member of Lucky Homemakers club, shared her creative talents while leading craft day activities March 11 attended by area Family and Community Education Club members. Jones distributed written pattern instructions and starter kits for making a Cathedral Window quilt, table runner, pillow, and so forth.

She said the supplies needed include unbleached muslin, needles, thread, scissors, thimble, pins and print fabric scraps. Her instructions are as follows:

1. Wash and dry muslin.

2. Cut squares of muslin measuring at least 7 inches.

3. Start by sewing both ends of a square to make an envelope.

4. Turn the block inside out, making sure the corners are formed outward.

5. Lay out flat to make a square.

6. Turn under a seam allowance and start sewing in the middle toward the left.

7. Don’t cut thread when reaching the end, but bring thread and seam back to the middle. Tack down well.

8. Now, start sewing from the middle toward the right. Bring thread back to the middle and tack, as before.

9. To complete, pull other ends into the middle and tack down.

10. Make each of your other 7-inch squares the same as your completed one.

11. Join together 2 completed squares, smooth sides and overcast one edge.

12. Join 2 more squares.

13. Join the first 2 squares to make a block of 4 squares.

14. To create the window, cut a small square of fabric from colorful solids or prints, measuring 2-1/8- by 2-1/8-inches when using a 7-inch muslin square. Place window over overcast seam. Apply a window over each muslin square overcast seam of adjoining squares and block.

15. Fold all four bias edges over “window.” Stitch in place. See pattern below.