What is a 16 Patch?

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JEANETTE WHITE: Hi. I'm Jeanette White for Expert Village and Piper's Quilts & Comforts located in Salt Lake City, Utah in Sugarhouse. And today, we're going to be talking about doing strip piecing. Strip piecing is a lot of fun because it's a really efficient, accurate way to get wonderful results quickly. This quilt right here behind me is done with strip piecing. And it is a little bit deceiving because when you first look at it, you would assume that you have taken a bunch of squares and sewn them all together. This is actually one of the quilts that we use for our beginning class, and I'm going to guide you through doing basic strip piecing with this today. Now, this is called a 16-patch, and you can do it in just about any configuration you want. You could do it this way and do it as a 9-patch, or you could do it this way and do it as a 4-patch, or you could do a 24-patch or a 25-patch. The possibilities are endless. It goes on and on and on. But today, we're going to do a 16-patch. So what I've done is I, first of all, have cut strips and these strips are 2-1/2 inches wide, and then I am stitching them together. Now, it's best if you can get into the habit of first stitching them in pairs and then stitching those pairs together. We're going to always use a quarter-inch seam allowance, and I've already striped--I've already pieced these two pairs of strips together. And now, I'm going to do the last seam to get this ready so that we can cut it up and then put it back together, which is what we always do in quilting and make our wonderful 16-patch. This block makes up a traditional quilt that nobody ever gets tired of. It's absolutely timeless. And it's a wonderful skill builder, which is one of the reasons why we use it as one of our beginning-class quilts. In our next segment--I need to get my little cutting piece here. It looks like I've lost it. In our next segment, we're going to be doing proper pressing techniques, which is really, really important. And then we're going to cut this apart and make our little 16-patch.

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