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Last September we bought a house that has an orchard! We have 65 fruit/nut trees altogether. The previous owners planted so many different varieties of flowers around the yard too. I love being surprised with new flowers blooming. The many colors of spring flower in our yard ‘The Orchard’ inspired me to make this scrappy, colorful flower quilt!
This pattern is a 16-inch block quilt. So, if you want a larger quilt, you just make more blocks.
The pattern comes with directions for a Baby, Lap, Throw, Full, Queen and King size quilt.
Construction options:
4 main colors with a background fabric
Fat quarters/1/4 yard cuts (the pattern has cutting suggestion diagrams)
Or Super duper scrappy, you can make every block with different fabrics.
I pulled fabrics from my bins, I only had to buy the background fabric for my pattern cover quilt, which is Riley Blake Designs – Le Creme Swiss Dot in Aqua from Stash Fabrics.
When I buy Kona cottons I like to buy a little extra each time. So, I found all of these in my fabric bins. A-D: All Kona Cottons – Prussian, Cadet, Pool, Robin’s Egg, Sangria, Sassy Pink, Med Pink, Mulberry, and Grapemist.
I also had the backing fabric, which is this beautiful Moda by Gingiber – Dwell in Possibility – Full Bloom
JOIN me for a quick quilt along!
Summer Break is speeding by, I only have 7 weeks left until I go back to work.
I really want to make a lap size quilt using a bunch of floral fabrics I purchased a few years ago. So, I thought if you’d like to join me, we can encourage each other to sew this beauty up!
QUILT ALONG SCHEDULE:
NOW – Grab the pattern and pick out your fabrics
July 23rd – Week 2 – Cut your pieces
July 30th – Week 3 – Make Corner Units
August 6th – Week 4 – Make Diamond in Rectangle Units
August 13th – Week 5 – Sew the blocks
August 20th – Week 6 – Finish our quilts!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Join my Facebook group and post your weekly progress photos
OR post your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #OrchardInBloomQAL or Tag me in your photo!
Grab the pattern and choose what size you’d like to make.
The pattern includes instructions for: Baby (48 x 48 in), Lap (48 x 64 in), Throw (64 x 80 in), Full (80 x 96 in), Queen (96 x 112 in) and King (112 x 112 in).
Each week I will film a LIVE video in the Facebook Quilt Along group. If you can’t watch it LIVE it will be saved to the group and uploaded to my YouTube channel.
You can check out all my awesome tester’s versions down below!
I am so excited to see your version of this quilt!
Andrea
Check out the beautiful quilts made by my awesome testers!!
