Flower Basket Medallion Quilt

Linda Guy

Final size:

158cm x 158cm (62in x 62in)

USD $15.18

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Description

Combine pieced pinwheel blocks, English paper-pieced hexagons and a spectacular flower appliqué centre with Linda Guy’s bright and colourful quilt pattern.

A great project for fussy cutting your EPP hexagons and appliqué flowers
Modernise a traditional-style medallion quilt by using bright and bold colours, or you can keep it subdued with a more traditional colour palette
By preparing your English paper pieced hexagons and appliqué pieces in advance, parts of this project are great for portable hand sewing
Linda uses needleturn appliqué, but you can easily adapt the appliqué to suit your preferred appliqué technique
Detailed, step-by-step instructions guide you through creating the centre design and all of the borders using appliqué for the centre flower basket, machine piecing for the dogtooth and pinwheel borders, and creating English paper-pieced hexagon flowers for the corners
This is a great medallion-style quilt for more advanced quilters

Materials

Fabric requirements and measurement for quilt top, backing and binding specified in instructions
Batting
Neutral-coloured thread for piecing
Cotton threads to match fabrics for appliqué
Template plastic
Lightweight cardboard or Mylar template material
Fine-point permanent pen
Pencil
Erasable pen
White pencil or ceramic marker
Spray starch
Bias makers, 1/4in and 3/8in
Appliqué glue, optional
Light box
Rotary cutter, ruler and mat

Designer

Linda Guy

What’s your idea of the perfect stitching day? A perfect stitching day right now would be at the beach, sitting under a tree covering paper pieces or hand stitching. Cup of tea, piece of cake and, most of all, some sunshine. I’ve lived this day a few times when my son came back from Australia and when I was holidaying over there, so there are some good stitching memories. And my sewing bag is full of covered hexagons!

Where do you like to do your work – in a studio, in the garden, in an armchair? All three of those, depending on what I’m sewing. When it’s winter in New Zealand, I take to my armchair in front of the fire. It’s where I do all my appliqué in the evening.

How many stitching projects do you think you tackle each year? I have a very long list of ‘to do’ sewing projects. I’d like to think I could do them all, but I just do what I can and enjoy all the different stages as I go.

What are your sewing essentials? Oooh, well … appliqué pins; Roxanne’s glue; Sewline mechanical pencil and glue pen; Bottom Line Thread; templates for hand piecing; straw needles; and a toothpick or three.

What sort of projects do you like to take with you when you are on the move? I take some redwork stitching and some paper templates. Small appliqué projects, too. Even if I don’t get to stitch, it’s still there, just in case.

How would you describe your stitching style? I think I’d describe it as a little bit folk art. I love all types of stitching, especially redwork on linen with some appliqué, as well. I love birds on quilts. There’s something restful about them and, as hard as I try not to include them, they always seem to appear.

What’s the largest stitching endeavour you have ever worked on – and the smallest? The largest stitching endeavour was a quilt 105in square. It was my second quilt and had lots of appliqué and tiny hand-quilting stitches with intricate quilting patterns. Today, I go in for the slightly larger stiches! The smallest project is a wool sewing keep that holds a pair of scissors and a packet of needles.