Stitch up a spectacular explosion of colour using curvy appliqué and a clever bias binding technique. Colby Radcliffe's Flourish templates and quilt layout guide are here to help.
Ever since we featured Colby Radcliffe's show-stopping Flourish quilt in issue 58 of Love Patchwork & Quilting, we've loved seeing your new versions of it. In this post you can find the fabric requirements, templates and layout guides to make this project.
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Stitch the rainbow! Bright fabric collections like Chroma by Alison Glass are great for a project like this
You will need
Fabric A and B: one (1) fat quarter each
Fabric C – P: one (1) fat eighth each (fourteen total)
Fabric Q – Y: one (1) fat sixteenth each (nine total)
Background fabric: 3½yds
Bias binding fabric: 1¼yds
Fusible web: 2½yds (at least 24in width)
¼n bias tape making tool
One copy each of Templates A1–A31 and B1–B31 (see Notes)
One copy each of Design Layout A and Design Layout B (see Notes)
Fabric marking pen/pencil
Glue pen and glue refills
Backing fabric: 4½yds
Batting: 66in x 78in
Binding fabric: 1½yd
Finished size
60in x 72in
Notes
Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed.
Templates include seam allowances, where necessary.
Design Layout does not include seam allowance.
Wash and press all fabrics well
Colby used Steam a Seam Lite for her fusible web.
Fabrics used
Print fabrics are Chroma by Alison Glass for Andover Fabrics.
Bias binding and binding fabric is Manchester in Onyx by Robert Kaufman.
Zoe is the launch Editor of Gathered.how. She has over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt. She's a quilter and sewist who works with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines including Today’s Quilter, Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. Zoe loves being immersed in Gathered’s quilting content, tweaking our tutorials and publishing new patterns. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned.
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