TGIFF! - Homage to a Canadian/British Classic

Happy Friday, everyone! No idea where this week went, but here we are. I'm a little punchy this morning because I stayed up ridiculously late last night to finish this top. And son #3 is fighting a stomach bug this morning so we are cuddling on the couch watching his favourite show "Super Why" in between bouts of vomiting. Poor bug!

As riveting as Super Why is and as much as I enjoy the cuddling time, I know that if I don't do something right now, I'll fall asleep so here's my homage to the Hudson's Bay Company point blanket.

For those who've been following along for some time, I posted this EQ design a couple of months ago. I was pleasantly surprised at the response; clearly I'm not the only one with a love for those blankets!

Yesterday, the design went from this:

To this:

 To this:

As a number of you mentioned that you'd like to do one of these too sometime, I thought I'd share my measurements to save you some time. This quilt will be 90" square (I like my queen-sized bed quilts big).

Fabric for the top (NB: These are generous fabric requirements. I did not want a seam in the stripes and I knew I'd be using the colour stripes on the back too so I bought the stripe fabric for the width of the quilt):

• 2 - 2.5 meters (3 yards) of off-white cotton making 5 meters (6 yards total)
• 2.5 meters (3 yards) indigo cotton
• 2.5 meters (3 yards) yellow cotton
• 2.5 meters (3 yards) red cotton
• 2.5 meters (3 yards) green cotton

Cutting Directions:

1. Fold all of your fabric so you will be cutting along the length of the fabric instead of the width.

2. From the off-white fabric, cut:

• 22.5" wide by 92"
• 2 - 6.5" wide by 92"
• 6 - 4.5" wide by 92"

 3. From each of the indigo, yellow, green and red, cut:

• 2 - 4.5" wide by 92"

Layout Directions:

1. Layout your stripes according to the design above, with your 6.5" off-white strips on the ends and the 22.5" piece as your centre, and sew them together.
2. You can square it up to 90" square now or wait until you've quilted it (I'd wait until you quilt it).

And voilà, you have your own HBC top. If you do make one, I'd love to see it and know if these directions are clear and easy to follow.

Being the rebel that I am, I'll be doing this "Party in the back" design for my backing. I'll share the measurements when I finish it. If you wanted to make this look like a true HBC blanket, you could make this top again for the back. 

I'm linking up with Allison and the other TGIFF! participants at Dreaming in Patchwork. She's got a fun Dorothy picnic quilt to share today. That's where I'm headed next!

Hope you have a great weekend!