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Appliqué Revival
Double Wedding Ring
Drunkard's Path
Eight Point Star
Kapa Hawai'i
Lone Star
Love Ring
Mary's Flower Garden
Medley Opus I
Primrose
Rob Pete
Snowball
Watercolor

 

This elegantly beautiful quilt is made without ever sewing two curved pieces of fabric together.  Child's play?  You betcha!  In 1999, a fourth grade class made all the blocks for a twin quilt in a handful of hours.  This book by Arlene Koble provides complete step-by-step instructions and yardages for a wide range of sizes and variations.. 

    

Here's how it is made:    

 Cut fabrics and interfacing. Stitch 4-patch pieces.

 

Stitch interfacing to the fabric

Trim seam allowances.   Turn right side out.

 

Fuse appliqués to background square.

Zigzag stitch appliqués to background.

 

Trim away excess interfacing and 4-patch fabric.

Assemble blocks in rows and columns,  Quilt and bind.

 

  

Color variation:  Beachball.  Details in book.

 

Bed sizes are presented with the option of one narrow border or a wider triple border.  Twin sizes shown.

Narrow single border

 

 Wider triple border 

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Complete instructions including yardages for nine sizes plus the Beachball variation.

  

 

Each 16" x 26" panels 8 blocks (32 quarter circles)

Panels required by quilt size:

 

   Pillow  1 Tablerunner  4
   Wallhanging  5 Baby  8
   Lap  11 Snuggler 13

   Twin

Narrow border

Wide border 

 

19

15

Double/Queen

Narrow border

Wide border 

 

26

21

   King

Narrow border

Wide border 

 

37

25

  

Appliqué Revival
Double Wedding Ring
Drunkard's Path
Eight Point Star
Kapa Hawai'i
Lone Star
Love Ring
Mary's Flower Garden
Medley Opus I
Primrose
Rob Pete
Snowball
Watercolor

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