Relive all the joy and excitement of the Jubilee celebration with this wall-hanging!
Designed and made by JO COLWILL and BECKY STEPHENS OF COWSLIP WORKSHOPS
APPLIQUÉ PROJECT
BEHIND THE QUILT
A ROYAL WIN!
“This is a fun quilt made using the Tilda Cotton Beach Me and My Friends Panel to celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee! It is easy to make, and, in this instance, I have used a bonding method for the appliqué, but you could use hand appliqué. The printed ladies work so well; I have just dressed them up with the hats and the odd jewel! The Queen is a remarkable and wonderful lady and has such a love and way with her horses. The Platinum Jubilee was certainly a celebration to remember.” – Jo Colwill
You will need
■ Blue fabric (sky) – 23½in x 6in
■ Grey stripe fabric (marquee) – 23½in x 7in
■ Green print (hedge) – 23½in x 1½in
■ Green print (hedge) – 23½in x 7½in
■ Larger Tilda Me and My Friends Panel – 23½in x 5½in strip
■ Smaller Tilda Me and My Friends Panel – 23½in x 4½in strip
■ Teacup print fabric – 23½in x 2½in
■ White fabric (rails) – Two (2) 1in x WOF strips
■ Green fabric (grass) – 23½in x 9½in
■ Various scraps (ladies’ hats) – Five (5) 6in squares
■ Purple fabric (Queen’s jockey) – One (1) 6in square
■ Union Jack fabric (bunting and flags) – One (1) fat eighth
■ Various colour fabrics (horses) – Four (4) 16in squares or fat quarters
■ Bondaweb – 20in
■ Perlé thread (bunting)
■ Backing – ⅞yd
■ Batting – 30in x 42in
■ Binding* – ¼yd
■ ½in bias maker
■ Various beads for ladies jewellery
Finished size
■ 23in x 35in approx.
Notes
■ *Jo used two (2) colours for her binding, blue for the top half and green for the bottom half.
■ Read all instructions before beginning.
■ RST = right side(s) together.
■ RS = right side(s).
■ WOF = width of fabric.
■ Assume a WOF of approx. 42in.
Assembling the wall-hanging
1 Lay the grey stripe marquee fabric right side up and fold up 2in, RST, at the bottom. Using the template, draw on eight (8) scallop shapes, and mark line A (Fig 1) – it will help in step 2. Stitch on the line using a small stitch length (1.5 should do). Cut out adding an ⅛in seam, clipping into the dip (Fig 2). Now turn it RS out and press gently. Lay the scallop RS down so that you can see the 2in section from step 1. Fold the scallop edge over on line A (Fig 3). Stitch ⅛in in from this folded edge making a small pin tuck – this creates a detail for the marquee top (Fig 4).
2 Join all the strips, as in the picture, to make the background, starting with the sky but leave the 9½in x 23½in grass strip at the bottom unattached, as you enclose the rails between it and the hedge strip. Where you have folded up the scallops, you should have around ½in flap (Fig 5
