Who could resist such beautiful Spring baskets bursting with bunches of appliqué blooms and surrounded by Dresden picnic plates!
Designed and made by LYNNE GOLDSWORTHY
FAT QUARTER PROJECT
BEHIND THE QUILTSPRING-THEMED AND SCRAPPY!
“This quilt uses a variety of techniques to create a fresh Spring feel. The baskets are made of half-square triangles, combined with bias tape for the handles. The Dresden Plates are machine appliquéd to the background and the bias tape sections (stems and basket handles) can be machine or hand sewn down. The flowers and leaves are all raw-edge appliquéd, but you could just as easily use the templates and make the quilt using traditional needle-turn appliqué. The whole quilt is made on point so that the flower baskets sit vertically on the finished quilt. This quilt is perfect for using up all sorts of brightly coloured scraps for the Dresdens and flower heads, with the fabrics in the baskets and the stems and leaves pulling together any scrappy colour scheme.” – Lynne Goldsworthy
You will need
■ Red, pink, orange and yellow fabrics – Nine (9) to ten (10) fat quarters*
■ Lime green fabrics – Five (5) fat quarters
■ Teal basket fabrics – Two (2) fat quarters*
■ Navy basket handle fabric – One (1) fat quarter*
■ Cream background (BKG) print fabric – 4¼yds
■ Binding – ½yd
■ Backing – 4¼yds
■ Batting – 76in square
■ Fusible web – 3yds (if 18in wide)
■ An erasable marker pen/pencil
■ Clover ⅜in/9mm bias tape maker
■ 5mm fusible web (optional)
■ Templates – One (1) each of the flower tracing templates, one (1) each of the A-I templates (including one [1] of templates A2 and A3), six (6) half-square triangle templates and one (1) basket template
Finished size
■ Quilt: approx. 68in square
■ Blocks: 12in square
Products used
■ Fabrics: Strawberry Lemonade by Sherri & Chelsi for www.modafabrics.com
■ Batting and fusible web: Cotton Mix 279 and Bondaweb from www.vlieseline.com/en/
■ Threads: Aurifil 50wt for piecing and 40wt for quilting from www.aurifil.com
■ Tools: Clover ⅜in/9mm bias tape maker and 5mm fusible web from www.clover-mfg.com/en/
Notes
■ Read through the pattern before beginning.
■ Always test a removable marking pen/pencil on your fabric before you begin a project.
■ *You can use additional prints as Lynne has done for more variety.
■ Lynne uses Bondaweb, which is 18in/44cm wide.
■ Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
