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Quick Quilts: Four Flower Babies Embroidery Project

By Vermillion Stitchery on July 01, 2008

SKILL LEVELIntermediate
TIME REQUIRED03:00

Description

Create your own Flower Baby quilt with these quick and easy directions.

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Materials

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Materials

One 11½” x 36” piece linen/cotton blend embroidery fabric

Blue print fabric for squares

24” x 24” piece blue print fabric for backing and self-binding

Lavender print fabric for lattice triangles

Yellow print fabric for squares and lattice triangles

Cotton batting

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Vermillion-Stitchery/1/70203

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Vermillion-Stitchery/1/70208

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Vermillion-Stitchery/1/70201

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/Vermillion-Stitchery/1/70207

Preface:

Finished Project Size: 20” x 20”
All Seams are ¼”

For each design, Stabilize Linen/Cotton Fabric: Cut the 11½” x 36” piece of embroidery fabric into four 9” x 11½” pieces. We suggest either an iron-on or sticky stabilizer for all cross stitch. Stabilize the Linen/Cotton fabric and hoop the fabric.

Flower Babies Design Details Files: For each design, print out and refer to each of the four flower baby design details files, included with each machine design file to stitch the design in the correct Color Stop order.

Select the correct filetype then center each design, stitch, and trim fabric to 5” square.

Step 1:

Cutting & Assembling Instructions
Center and embroider each Flower Baby and trim to 5” square. Print out the pattern pieces and make templates of A, B, & C using a medium weight cardboard or template plastic.

Step 2:

Template A:

Cut 12 from the blue strip of fabric. Cut 8 from the yellow print

Step 3:

Cut lavender print into four 2¼” strips, then cut four 17” strips for border. From the remaining lavender print cut:

Step 4:

Template B:

Cut 16

Cut 16 BR (B template reversed)

Step 5:

Template C:

Cut 16 from yellow print

Step 6:

Sew a lavender B to a yellow C, matching tips of triangles at bottom of triangle C and stitching bottom to top (Diagram A). Finger press seam towards B, then add a BR to opposite side of C, being careful to match tips again at bottom of C and stitching bottom to top.

Step 7:

Make 16 B/C units this manner. Referring to photo for placement of yellow & blue squares, add to B/C units, working horizontally across from left to right, making for pieced lattice strips.

Step 8:

Again, referring to photo, add the remaining eight B/C units to the sides of each Flower Baby, then sew two Flower Baby units together, making two units of two Flower Babies.

Step 9:

Assemble quilt in rows, being certain to match seams, beginning with lattice strip, two Flower Baby unit, lattice strip, lattice strip, two Flower Baby unit and finally add the last lattice strip.

Sew a lavender border strip to top and bottom of quilt. Sew a remaining yellow print square to the ends of remaining two 17" lavender border strips, and join to sides of quilt, matching seams. Press all seams towards lattice strips.

Step 10:

Finishing
Layer quilt, batting and large piece of blue fabric, baste or pin. We quilted around each Flower Baby square, and diagonally through blue and yellow patchwork squares. Then we stitched at the seam line of quilt and border. After quilting your design as desired, trim all excess batting, then trim excess backing to 1" all around the quilt. To make self-binding, fold in ½”of backing towards picture. Fold again and pin and sew around quilt.

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Quick Quilts: Four Flower Babies Embroidery Project

Materials

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Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2 oz wt.