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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# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
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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 | // | ||||
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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 | // | ||||
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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 | // | ||||
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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 | // | ||||
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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 | // | // | ||||
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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] | // | ||||
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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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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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Dorothy’s Sunflowers is a 2-color, 2-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 80 x 80 inches. This quilt is based on a red and white quilt that was in the Infinite Variety Red and White Quilt Exhibit in New York in March 2011. The Sunflower blocks made me think of Kansas and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.
This design uses the Inklingo 12″ Sunflower, 6″ Sunflower, 3″ Drunkards Path and Circles Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.
Dorothy Williamson is my paternal grandmother. She was born Grace Rose Buisch on 24 December 1889 in Batavia, New York. (I have no clue why she started going by Dorothy sometime in her forties.) She was an excellent seamstress and had the patience to teach me, her left-handed granddaughter, how to embroider at an early age. My grandmother insisted I learn to use scissors with my right hand though. She is the reason I iron and cut with my right hand, use a rotary cutter with both hands, and the reason I make quilts both by hand and machine today. This is her quilt. The fleurs de lis on the border represent her French ancestry.
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For more information about Inklingo, click here. |
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Fabric 1 Red |
Combo 6 | 12 sets | 12] 8.25 x 12.75″ | 12″ Sunflower: 18 & 19 | ||||
| Background Half | 24 | 24] 7 x 13.25″ | 12″ Sunflower: 20 & 21 | |||||
| Diamond | 192 | 3] 8.5 x 11.5″ & 1] 7.25 x 6.25″ |
6″ Sunflower: 30 & 31 | |||||
| Circle [center] | 12 | 2] 6.25 x 9.5″ | 6″ Sunflower: 24 & 25 | |||||
| AB Combo | 104 sets | 17] 8.5 x 12.75″ & 1] 4.5 8.75″ |
3″ DP: 6 & 7 | |||||
| Borders | 4 | 10.5″ wide strips cut length of fabric to avoid piecing |
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| Binding strips | 9 strips |
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Fabric 2 |
Diamond | 192 | 12] 7.75 x 9.75″ | 12″ Sunflower: 30 & 31 | ||||
| Combo 6 | 12 sets | 6] 8 x 11.5″ Landscape | 6″ Sunflower: 18 & 19 | |||||
| AB Combo | 104 sets | 17] 8.5 x 12.75″ & 1] 4.5 8.75″ |
3″ DP: 6 & 7 | |||||
| Fleur de lis applique | 20 | Applique Border PDF |
**See note below about applique placement. |
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| 1.75″ Circle applique | 20 | 1] 7.25 x 9.75″ & 1] 5 x 9.75″ |
Circles: 44 & 45 | |||||
| 1.25″ Circle applique | 32 | 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 7.5 x 4.25″ |
Circles: 36 & 37 | |||||
| .75″ Circle applique | 96 | 1] 8 x 12″ & 1] 8 x 9.5″ |
Circles: 28 & 29 | |||||
| .5″ Circle applique | 64 | 1] 8 x 8″ | Circles: 22 & 23 | |||||
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Want to check my math? The Dorothy’s Sunflowers Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. **IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT APPLIQUE PLACEMENT: I made the applique border printouts only 8″ wide to save on paper. You will need to place the bottom edge of the printout 2″ from the seam where the border is sewn to the quilt center or 2.25″ from the raw edge of the border strip before it’s sewn to the quilt center for correct spacing. Be sure to check my Sunflower Quilts Pinterest board for more quilty Sunflower inspiration! |
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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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Catherine’s Crooked Path is a 2-color, 2-fabric quilt set on point. It measures approximately 90 x 90 inches. I used an on-point setting for this quilt to add more interest to the Cleopatra’s Puzzle block.
This design uses the Inklingo 4 inch Drunkards Path Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana and Stonehenge by Northcott.
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This is another quilt to honor the brave and strong women of my Irish-Canadian roots.
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Cheat Sheet (Download from website or print from collection) |
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| Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of this 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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AB Combo | 224 sets | |||||||
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| 4″ Quarter Square Triangles | 64 | 16] 5.25 inch squares cross cut into quarters or use QST Ruler |
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| Binding strips | 10 strips |
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Fabric 2 |
AB Combo | 224 sets |
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| A | 32 |
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Want to check my math? The Catherine’s Crooked Path Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. You can also use the information above to make this quilt using 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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39120-49 Stonehenge
3954-35 Stonehenge
3925-166 Stonehenge
9020-91 Toscana Silver Lining
9020-85 Toscana Hot Sauce
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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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