Spring Fling

Use your stash, fats, or fabric by the metre, or a combination of them all to make this gorgeous quilt. Pattern includes two sizes.

Finished size – Small: 170cm x 170cm OR Large: 200cm x 200cm

General Requirements:

• Rotary cutter
• Scissors or thread clippers
• Pins
• Neutral coloured thread
• Sewing machine in good working order with a 1⁄4” foot

Fabric requirements: This Quilt can be made using your Stash, Fat 1/4’s or Fabric by the metre, or a combination, the choice is yours.

All amounts in RED indicate the larger size quilt.

• Scrappy-
  • Main fabric – One fabric may be best here. Although piecing pieces together to get the size you need will work. Keep the colour different from the body of the quilt – this is the feature fabric.
  • Background – large stash of similar colours that will contrast the rest of the quilt.
  • Body of the quilt – large stash of mixed fabrics to contrast your background.
  • Binding – approx. 1/2mt this needs to be a fabric that will not blend with your other fabrics.

• Fat 1⁄4’s:
  • Main fabric – 8 10 fat 1⁄4’s of similar colours (Feature fabric)
  • Background – 10 15 fat 1⁄4’s
  • Body of the quilt –
    • Contrasts 1 and 4 = 7 10 fat 1⁄4’s
    • Contrasts 2 and 5 = 6 8 fat 1⁄4’s
    • Contrast 3 = 2 2 fat 1⁄4’s
  • Binding – approx 1/2mt, this needs to be a fabric that will not blend with your other fabrics.

• By the metre:
• The Main fabric is a feature fabric, it it used throughout the quilt, choose this fabric first then choose the contrasts that will work well with this fabric.
  • Main fabric – 1.5mts 1.8mts
  • Background – 2mts 3.3mts
  • Contrast 1 – 60cm 80cm
  • Contrast 2 – 60cm 70cm
  • Contrast 3 – 30cm 40cm
  • Contrast 4 – 80cm 1.2mt
  • Contrast 5 – 40cm 60cm
  • Binding – 50cm 60cm

* This product is available as a PDF e-pattern that you download after purchase, or as a paper pattern that can be posted to you.