New today! Colonial Garden (Beyer 411-10) is ready.
It is an old design, published in the Aunt Martha Series in 1963. The opportunities for fussy cutting make it irresistible.
Print the shapes on fabric with your ordinary Inkjet printer, cut and sew!
It couldn’t be simpler!
MACHINE PIECE OR HAND PIECE!
I enjoyed every stitch in Colonial Garden by machine. The seams are long enough that the method I use for sewing the insets for Grandmother’s Flower Garden worked perfectly. The VIDEO above shows hexagons, but it works exactly the same way for octagons.
approx 6.5 x 6.5 inches
BONUS SHAPES
The bonus shapes are perfect if you want to use the Kite and Half Kite for a Dresden Plate variation . . .
. . . or to finish with a straight edge!
One Colonial Garden block is 15.4 x 15.4 inches, finished—a big block.
HEXAGON QUILT DESIGN BOOK
The sewing and pressing instructions for hexagons also apply to octagons, so when you buy Colonial Garden shapes to print on fabric, I also add the Hexagon Quilt Design Book ($20 value, PDF download).
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Linda & Monkey
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Hi Pearl, Sewing octagons is similar to sewing hexagons—lots and lots of inset seams but these are biggish pieces, so you can sew them by machine. You can see how I sew insets by machine in a video on YouTube. http://youtu.be/VvCmLj8MmQk
Just love the colonial garden, very much interested in the pattern.
Just love the colonial garden, very much interested in the pattern.
Am just a little confused on how to put together.
Pearl
This is beautiful. Is it easy to use. I will have to read up on this more. I want to order the pattern. how do i do that. can pattern be printed out on just paper. thanks, Janet
Absolutely gorgeous. The possibilities here are endless. I can’t wait to get started. Thank you.
Love this as well as colors used!
Linda this is beautiful.
This is such a fabulous old design!! Why is it making me think of the pale pinks and spring greens — oh, I know. Because it’s bitterly cold and winter and grey here. So you couldn’t have released a lovely garden collection at a better time!!!