Yesterday’s doodles over on our sister site – chrisand barbaraquilts – have moved onto a more festive look with holly and a peony (not sure peonies are in flower right now, but fabric ones can be!)
These are the default colours from EQ
but as was suggested yesterday you can recolour them to suit your mood, decor, or the season
If you want to make the blocks you can download the instructions – templates for 6, 9 and 12 inch blocks – here.
Another free pattern today from our Payhip Shop where nearly all the patterns have been drastically reduced in price down to £1, 50p or free. Edit – and the price on this has now been changed to Free (sorry for the fumble-fingered 50p earlier)
This is another one that appeared many years ago in Patchwork and Quilting magazine as a Junior Project and that we had made a year or two earlier at Staffordshire Young Quilters.
The block used is Puss in the Corner and our young stitchers decided it would be fun to put ‘puss’ in the middle (and maybe a mouse in the corner). We used the pattern to practice different methods of applique and in later years it also proved quite popular with adult education classes for the same purpose.
The pattern includes the template to make the applique cat and an outline of the different methods you could use to stitch your cat in place as well as instructions to make the blocks and the small wall-hanging illustrated.
Back in the ’90s computers were still quite new but some ten years later we used the same pattern to print the cats onto fabric – sadly I don’t have any photos of those nor of the times we used fabric paints, transfer crayons and even coloured paper bags to make our cats.
Download the pattern from here and have fun exploring the many different ways and colours you can make your cat appliques. Download a quilt to colour here.
Our free pattern today is a simple little runner or banner that first appeared in Patchwork and Quilting magazine, in 2007, as a Junior Project – so this is ideal for something quick, or for a beginner, or as a craft project to do with children stuck at home.
It takes a few fat quarters and/or scraps of fabric and some fusible web – especially if working with children – or you may prefer to use your own favourite applique method.
Add your own fun embellishments and variations as well to make it your own. Some children I worked with added a hungry caterpillar to their apples.
Download your free Apple-a-Day pattern here – complete with templates.
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