Service Project

Please consider joining your fellow members in making "Friendly Service" blocks. The blocks will be assembled to make quilts for Staben House. Waukegan Township’s Staben House provides transitional housing and community enrichment services to homeless women with children.

The pieced block will measure 8.5" with seam allowance (finished size within the quilt will be 8”), and we are hoping to collect a large amount to put together some sweet quilts for the children residing at Staben House.

Download a copy of the instructions for every block.

February Sailboat Block

This block has a lot of half square triangles. The background should be a light blue (sky), sails should be white or muslin fabric, boat can be any color, and water should be dark blue.

Cut one dark blue (water) rectangle 8 1/2 in.x 1 1/2 in.

From the light blue (sky) cut:

  • 3 rectangles 1 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in.

  • 1 rectangle 1 1/2 in. × 5 1/2 in.

  • 2 rectangles 1 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in.

  • 1 rectangle 1 in. x 21/2 in.

  • 3 squares 1 1/2 in.

  • 8 squares 2 in.

From white (sail) cut 8 squares 2 in.

Sew the sky fabric to the two ends of the boat to make the triangle-shaped boat hull (see diagram).

Sew the boat and water rectangles together.

Layer 2 in. white and sky fabrics in pairs, and make half-square triangles, trimming to 1 1/2 in.

Download the boat block pattern.

Boat layout.

Block layout.

More Basket Blocks Needed

Please consider tackling a Basket block from August, as we could use a few more.

DO NOT fuse the appliqué. Use either machine-, hand-, or raw-edge appliqué.

The basket pattern is available in the “instructions for every block” PDF near the top of this page.