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Flower Spool Quilt

This antique-style quilt uses soft and faded colours. Texture and dimension are created with English paper pieced hexagons and yoyo flowers. A fat eighth is approximately 9in × 22in (22.9cm × 56cm).

You will need…

• Cream fabric for background 1yd/m

• Twelve blue and twelve pink prints, fat eighth yd/m each

• Aged blue/grey print for appliqué birds 4in × 12in (10.2cm × 30.5cm)

• Soft brown floral for spool tops 8in × 16in (20.3cm × 40cm)

• Turquoise and blue wool for flowers 8in × 12in (20cm × 30.5cm) each

• Mauve print for inner border 6in (15.2cm) (width of fabric)

• Precut hexagons for English paper pieced flowers with ¹⁄₄in (6mm) sides

• Stranded embroidery cotton (floss) – (I used Cosmo threads but DMC equivalents are given in brackets): soft charcoal (413), vintage brown (611), aged fawn (648), dark antique blue (926) and light antique blue (927)

• Fabric for binding 2¹⁄₂in (6.3cm) wide × 160in (406cm) approx

• Backing fabric 42in × 50in (107cm × 127cm)

• Wadding (batting) 42in × 50in (107cm × 127cm)

• Fusible web

• Template plastic

• Fine-tipped fabric marking pen

• Light box (optional)

• Glue pen (optional)

• Tacking (basting) glue (optional)