Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden is a 6-color, 6-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 72 x 72 inches. Originally I used a pastel palette for the quilt but then decided that butterflies and flowers are usually much more colorful. I switched from Northcott’s Toscana line to their Artisan Spirit Shimmer Collection for this quilt.
This design uses the Inklingo 3″ Drunkards Path Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from several Artisan Spirit Shimmer collections by Northcott.
I have a few cousins named Kathleen in my Canadian Duthie and McEvoy lines. There are a lot more Katherines and Katherinas [thanks to some German lines] than Kathleens in my family tree. No Kathleen story to share though as there are none are in my direct lines.
I love playing around with Drunkards Path units turning and twisting them to make new designs. This block is not original but it is uncommon—Like the Kathleens in my family tree.
[WordPress updated their editor and I have to say, I DON’T LIKE IT!! I gave up in frustration trying to post tables copied from MSWord last week. I’m determined to catch up in my A to Z Challenge posts—frustration or not. It’s going to take a lot of chocolate…]
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The large flowers in the border would be good for machine applique. |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
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Fabric 1 |
B Layout 1 | 18 | 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 11.75″ |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | |||
D Square | 9 | 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing] |
3″ DP: 18 & 19 | ||||
Outer Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Inner Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Fabric 2 |
B Layout 1 | 18 | 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 11.75″ |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | |||
D Square | 9 | 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing] |
3″ DP: 18 & 19 | ||||
Outer Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Inner Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Fabric 3 |
B Layout 1 | 18 | 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 11.75″ |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | |||
D Square | 9 | 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing] |
3″ DP: 18 & 19 | ||||
Outer Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Inner Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Fabric 4 |
B Layout 1 | 18 | 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 11.75″ |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | |||
D Square | 9 | 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing] |
3″ DP: 18 & 19 | ||||
Outer Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Inner Petals [7 Flowers] |
28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Fabric 5 |
B Layout 1 | 144 | 14] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 6” |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | |||
C | 9 | 4] 7 x 13.75″& 1] 7 x 7.25″ |
3″ DP: 16 & 17 | ||||
Leaves | 112 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Flower Centers | 28 | Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF | // | ||||
Binding Strips | 8 strips | // | // | ||||
Fabric 6 |
A Layout 1 | 216 | 36] 5.5 x 11.25″ | 3″ DP: 8 & 9 | |||
B Layout 1 | 36 | 3] 5.5 x 14.5″ & 1] 5.5 x 9″ |
3″ DP: 12 & 13 | ||||
D Squares | 36 | 6] 7.5 x 11.25″ [Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing] |
3″ DP: 18 & 19 | ||||
Border Strips | 4 Cut length of fabric to avoid piecing |
9.5″ wide [Minimum width as some like to add extra for shrinkage in applique] | // | ||||
Want to check my math? The Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. You can also use the information above to make this quilt using 3″ Drunkards Path Templates. Check the Store tab in my blog header under Rulers for Drunkards Path Template Sets. Be sure to check my Along a Crooked Path Pinterest board for more quilty Drunkards Path inspiration! |
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Additional Colorways |
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Should the background be the sky or the ground? |
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This is the original pastel version |
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Inklingo Drunkards Path Video
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How to Rotary Cut Curves Inklingo Video
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Sewing Curves Without Pins
This is how I sew curves. (I dislike pinning!) I use a 3M Command Strip pasted along the side of my presser foot to help as a guide also. You need to be sure to use your 1/4″ presser foot if you are going to use a Command Strip as a guide. When I am done sewing curves, the Command Strip removes easily from my machine bed.
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Jane’s Baskets is a 3-color, 4-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 85 x 85 inches. My inspiration for this quilt is an antique quilt I saw on an online auction website. I pinned it to my Basket Quilts board on Pinterest. You can see it here.
This design uses the Inklingo 6″ Basket Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.
This quilt is named for Catherine Jane [Cormode] Williamson. Jane’s family lived near Ramsey on the Isle of Man. She was baptized 13 April 1828 at Kirk Christ Church in Lezayre. Jane was my second great grandmother. I haven’t been able to find out exactly when the Cormodes arrived in America. The earliest record I have shows them living in Rochester, New York in 1844. Sometime around 1848, Jane married William Henry Williamson. Jane and Henry had at least eight children together. Both died in their 50th year—Henry in 1875 of cholera and Jane in 1878 of albuminuria.
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Note that the Applique Border PDF was updated 29 January 2015.
Jane’s Baskets |
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White with blue print |
9020-78 Toscana Pine | ||||||
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Cheat Sheet (Download from website or print from collection) |
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For more information about Inklingo, click here. |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
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Fabric 1 |
Handle Pieced[Optional – Not necessarily needed if back-basting] | 64 | 10] 5 x 11″ & 1 5 x 7.75″ |
6″ Basket: 38 & 39 | |||
HST 1.5 Layout 1 | 320 | 13] 7.75 x 10.25″ & 1] 5.25 x 5.5″ |
6″ Basket: 46 & 47 | ||||
Straight [center] Petal Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates] |
304 | Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates | 6″ Basket: 37 | ||||
Left Petal Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates] |
44 | Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates | 6″ Basket: 37 | ||||
Right Petal Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates] |
44 | Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates | 6″ Basket: 37 | ||||
Fabric 2 |
HST 1.5 Layout 1 | 128 | 5] 7.75 x 10.25″ & 1] 5.25 x 5.5 |
6″ Basket: 46 & 47 | |||
HST 3 Layout 1 | 64 | 8] 8.25 x 8.5″ | 6″ Basket: 50 & 51 | ||||
.75″ Circles | 65 | 1] 6.75 x 9.25″ & 1] 6.75 x 8.25″ |
Circles: 28 & 29 | ||||
.75″ Half Circles | 44 | Use freezer paper templates from Flower Back-basting page printed for petals | // | ||||
Binding Strips | 9 strips | // | // | ||||
Fabric 3 |
3/8 to 1/2″ Bias Stem | 450″ [generous estimate] |
Jane’s Baskets Applique PDF | // | |||
Leaves | 60 | Jane’s Baskets Applique PDF | // | ||||
Fabric 4 |
Combo 1 Background | 64 sets | 32] 8.5 x 11″ | 6″ Basket: 20 & 21 | |||
Cornerstones | 49 | 3.5 x 3.5″ square [minimum size – some allow extra for shrinking during applique] | // | ||||
Sashing | 112 | 3.5 x 6.5″ rectangle | // | ||||
Border Strips | 4 [Cut length of fabric to avoid piecing] |
8.5″ wide [minimum size – some allow extra for shrinking during applique] |
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Want to check my math? The Jane’s Baskets Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. Be sure to check my Basket Quilts board on Pinterest for more quilty basket inspiration. |
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Isabella’s Star is a 2-color, 3-fabric quilt set on point. It measures approximately 83 x 83 inches. Feathered Stars are really quite easy when you follow the directions for sewing them that Linda has provided in the Inklingo Feathered Star Design Book.
This design uses the Inklingo 20″ Feathered Star Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Stonehenge by Northcott.
Isabella was a popular name in my Williamson line. The first record I have for an Isabella is a baptism in 1832 in Lancashire, England. She was the second daughter and fourth child of Thomas and Margaret [Pollitt] Williamson. Sadly she died and was buried on 2 May 1833. Shortly after her parents emigrated from England to America in 1836, they had another daughter and named her Isabella. For a time in subsequent generations, there were one or two more daughters named Isabella in the Williamson families. It makes me wonder if I won’t find another Isabella back even farther in my Williamson or Pollitt lines.
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Isabella’s Star |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of the 20” Feathered Star collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
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Fabric 1 |
Feather HST | 312 | Cut & layer with Beige fabric – No need to print | 20″ FS: | ||||||||
Diamond & Square Combo OR Squares Diamonds |
13 sets OR 104 squares 104 diamonds |
If no Combo is available in the 20″ Feathered Star Collection to print Diamond & Square sets, print each shape individually. | 20″ FS: | |||||||||
Diamond 1 | 52 | 3] 7.5 x 11.5” & 1] 7.5 x 4.25” |
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 16 & 17 | |||||||||
Binding Strips | 9 strips |
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Fabric 2 |
Kite | 104 | 20″ FS: | |||||||||
Diamond 1 | 52 | 3] 7.5 x 11.5” & 1] 7.5 x 4.25” |
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 16 & 17 | |||||||||
Fabric 3 |
Feather HST | 312 | Print and layer with Dark Blue fabric. Sew to make HST units. | 20″ FS: | ||||||||
Feather HST | 104 | Print & cut out | 20″ FS: | |||||||||
QST | 52 | 20″ FS: | ||||||||||
Corner Squares [16 replace QST in quilt layout] |
68 | 20″ FS: | ||||||||||
Large QST [See Linda’s note in the Feathered Star Design Book about this shape.] |
20 | 20″ FS: | ||||||||||
Combo 1 [Square/QST sets] |
13 sets | 6] 8.5 x 9.75” & 1] 4.5 x 9.75” |
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 38 & 39 | |||||||||
29.5″ Squares | 2] squares cross cut into 8 Large Setting Triangles [QST] |
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15″ Squares | 2] squares cut on diagonal for 4 Corner HST |
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Want to check my math? The Isabella’s Star Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. |
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Additional Colorways |
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Isabella’s Star I thought this would look nice with a Toile fabric in place of the beige. |
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Red, Green, Blue, Black Toile |
Red, Green, Blue or Black Solid as coordinating fabric |
White with Red, Green, Blue or Black as coordinating fabric |
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