Use Your Scrap Fabric For These Improve Braided Quilt Blocks Story

Use Your Scrap Fabric For These Improve Braided Quilt Blocks

This Improv Braided Quilt Block is a fun improvisational piecing technique that I use as a bit of mindless sewing.

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You can make long scrappy braided strips for use in quilt borders or make wider braids that can be cut down into quilt blocks of almost any size.

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Supplies:

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STEP 1. Start with any Small Scrap.

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STEP 2. Add a second Scrap to one side of the first.

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STEP 3. Press units.

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STEP 4. Trim unit.

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STEP 4. Add another Scrap to the opposite side from before.

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