Sunburst PatternUses the Railroad Crossing Stamps

©2013 Cindy Blackberg

Materials:

36 - 5” print squares for quarter circles

36 - fat eighths (9”x 22”) print for points &

pieced border

½ yard light beige background for points

1 ¼ yard darker beige background

¾ yard binding

2 ¾ yard backing

Valdani perle cotton #12 (I used green &

gold.)

No slip embroidery hoop

Chenille needles size 24 gold eye for the

embroidery

Graphite pencil to trace embroidery pattern

Wash and Press all fabrics before

beginning.

Stamping Tips:

1. Wash and press all the fabrics for your

stamping project.

2. Pat the stamp gently into the fabric

inkpad, making sure both lines of the image is

inked. Don’t push the stamp into the ink pad

too hard or you will get ink on the center of

the shape.

3. Place the fabric face down on a sandpaper

board (or a rotary cutting mat) and stamp.

4. Let the image dry a few seconds and heat

set if desired.

5. Cut the shape on the exterior line.

6. Clean the stamp with a wet one or baby

wipe. Dry with a paper towel.

Sunburst©2013 Cindy Blackberg

256 E Leatherwood Dr.

Walland, TN 37886

www.cindyblackberg.com

Stamping the Pieces:

For each block, stamp:

4 - quarter circles

4 sets of 5 points (20 total)

20 light background pieces

When stamping, the lengthwise grain is

parallel to the selvage. Position the finger

holds of the stamps to the lengthwise grain.

Cut out the pieces on the exterior line.

Assemble the Blocks:

1. Layout the quarter circles in a pleasing

arrangement.

2. Pick up 2 adjacent circles and place them

right sides together.

3. Place a pin in the corner of the top piece

and find the corner of the bottom piece.

Leave the pin hanging.

4. Place a pin in the ending corner of the top

piece and find the ending corner of the

bottom piece. Leave this pin hanging.

5. Thread a Richard Hemming size 10 sharp

needle with a single strand of matching

quilting thread and knot.

6. Place the needle into the first pin position.

Remove the pin.

7. Stitch along the stamped line.

8. At the ending pin, come up at the corner

where the pin is positioned. Do 2

backstitches. Cut off the thread, leaving a

tail.

9. Do the same thing for the other 2

quarter circles.

DO NOT PRESS!

10. Sew the 2 halves together by placing

them right sides together. Pin to the right

of both seam allowances in the center. (If

you are right handed.)

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11. Sew up to the pin at the seam.

Backstitch. Pop the top seam up and sew

straight through. Pop the back seam to the

right and continue stitching to the end.

Backstitch twice at the last pin.

12. Layout the 20 points with the light

points background. Stitch into a circle.

(HINT: An easy way to hand stitch this is to

go up and down, picking up the adjacent piece

as you stitch. Take a backstitch at each

intersection. Be sure to have the points and

backgrounds in the correct orientation!)

13. Place the points circle on top of the

quarter circle piece. Pin to the reference

lines. At each intersection, backstitch and

tug on the thread before and after each

point.

14. Press LIGHTLY with very little steam.

It is very easy to stretch the block at this

point since it is all bias.

15. Make 8 more blocks and set aside.

Preparing for the Embroidery:

1. Fold and press the background fabric into

quarters and then like an X. Do not cut the

square down. You should have selvages on 2

sides.

2. On the right side of the square, mark

6” north and 6” south of the center line.

Do this on both orientations.

B C

3. Now mark 12” from the lines you just

marked to get nine blocks.

4. Make a template from the vine pattern.

Center the vine template over the drawn

lines and trace.

Embroider the Vine:

1. Embroider the vine with #8 DMC perle

cotton. Using the stem stitch, embroider

3 rows, green, gold and green to make the

vine look more thicker.

2. Press the top.

Measure

Piece in the Sunburst:

1. On the back of the embroidered

fabric, find the center of each block.

Make a circle template from template

plastic that fits from seamline to

seamline on the sunburst adding

reference marks at each point. A circle

guide is enclosed, just make sure it fits

your measurement.

2. Trace the template pattern on the

back of the embroidered fabric,

centering each circle in the 9

embroidered squares, and tracing the

reference marks. (Make sure there are

reference marks in the north, south, west

and east positions, so your block will be

sewn with the quarter seam lines like an

X.

3. Cut out 1/4” inside the pencil line. Do

this one circle at a time, so the hole will

not stretch.

4. With the sunburst block on TOP, and

the background right sides together, sew

from point to point, using the reference

marks to line up the points.

5. Press the top. Center the design and

cut down to 39 ½” carefully.

Piano Key Border Assembly:

1. From the scraps cut out 45- 1 ½” x 15” strips.

2. Sew the strips lengthwise to make a

45 ½” x 15” pieced border strip.

3. Press the seams gently to one side.

4. Cut the large strip into 4 borders 3 ½” x 45 ½”.

5. On two of the borders, take off six of the strips from either end.

6. Sew the shorter borders on the top and bottom of the quilt and the longer borders on the side.

7. Press. Layer and quilt. I quilted a pattern in the center of the quarter circles and used the

vine template as a quilting pattern for the area around the block. I quilted in the ditch in the

piano key border and in the points around the sunburst block. Bind and enjoy!

Vine Template with orientation to the pencil line

Circle Guide