Jazz up your spring table with this quilted floral design
YOU WILL NEED
✱ 25in x WOF background fabric
✱Scrap fabrics for tulips and leaves
✱Four 1½ x 5in strips for stems
✱ 32in x WOF backing fabric
✱ 52 x 16in batting
✱ 10in x WOF for binding
✱ 5in x WOF of sew-in lightweight interfacing
✱Pencil, for drawing on interfacing
✱Hand-sewing needle
✱Matching thread
Key:
WOF = width of fabric
SA = seam allowance
WS = wrong sides
RS = right sides
Measurements are shown in inches as these are traditionally used for quilting.
Cutting out
From the background fabric, cut four 12½in squares. From the backing fabric, cut two 16in x WOF strips. From the binding fabric, cut four 2½in wide x WOF strips. Join to make a continuous length with bias joins. Trim the SA to ¼in, then press open. Press the long edges WS together. From the interfacing, cut four 5in squares and four 5 x 2¾in rectangles.
Instructions
1Draw around the tulip template on each 5in interfacing square and cut out with a 1cm allowance around the edge; repeat with the leaf template on the interfacing rectangles. Place the interfacing on the RS of the string fabrics and sew along the outline. Trim the fabric and interfacing, leaving a ¼in SA, and clip the corners. Cut a slit in the centre of the interfacing, careful not to cut the fabric, then turn the shape through this hole and press.
