Hi, I’m Lauren Terry from {flyawayquilts.com} You can check out my blog for an awesome give away. Also, if you would like to download the pdf version of this tutorial, you can find it here: Finished Flower Girl. Ok, onto the tutorial…
-1 layer cake (or 4 charm packs)
-1 white charm pack
-2 yards neutral/background fabric
-1 yard border fabric
-3/4 yard binding fabric
-4 yards backing fabric
CUTTING
Blocks
-If you’re using a layer cake, pick 16 squares for your blocks and cut them into 5″ squares
-Cut 1.5″ squares from patterned fabric (cut 16)
– From your neutral fabric, cut strips measuring 1.5 x 5″ (cut 64)
– Cut your white charm pack into 2.5″ squares. (cut 72)
Sashing
From your neutral fabric cut:
-15 strips measuring 1.5″ x 10″
– 9 strips measuring 1.5″ x 11.25″
– 4 strips 1.5″ x width of fabric
ASSEMBLY
-Draw a diagonal line on all your 2.5″ white squares.
– Take a 5″ square of patterned fabric and place a 2.5″ white square in diagonal corners. Sew along the line you drew earlier.
– Clip seam allowance. 
– Iron seam allowance to dark side. Repeat the steps up to this point with all 5″ squares.
– Sew a 1.5″ strip in between two of your petals.
– For the Middle section of your block, get two 1.5 x 5″ strips and sew a 1.5″ square in the middle
– Nest the seams and place a pin in each intersection as you’re creating your blocks.
– Join the top and bottom with your unit and press.
– Using the 10″ cardboard as a template, cut down each block to 10″ square.
Sashing: You can do sashing the traditional way with long white strips, but I have a hard time making sure all my blocks are in line with each other. Here’s an alternate method:
– For sashing, take 15 of your blocks and sew a 1.5 x 10″ strip to one side of each.
– Next, take 9 of those blocks and lay 6 aside. Take the 9 and add a 1.5 x 11.25″ strip adjacent to the one you started with.
– Now you should have 9 blocks with an “L” shape of neutral fabric, 6 blocks with only one strip of neutral fabric on the bottom and one block with no other strips (as pictured below).
– Lay out the L shaped blocks in a 3 x 3 pattern, then lay out the one strip blocks (with 3 on the right, and three on the bottom). Put your empty block in the bottom right corner. Doing the sashing by this method will make sure your blocks stay squared up.
– Add a 1.5″ neutral border all around, then add a 5″ patterned border. Your quilt top is finished!
– Baste, quilt, and bind as desired.
Quilt measures 49″ x 49″
Lauren Terry
{flyawayquilts.com}
Lauren Terry
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Lauren, this quilt is darling! I absolutely love it in the Bright Sun fabrics, but I can also picture it in Christmas colors. Thanks for sharing!
So neat !
Thank you for sharing this pattern. Your quilt is adorable. Now I want to make one too.
Thank you for the inspiration too. This is just a quilt I really want to make 🙂
Very pretty, thanks!
Simple et joli,j’aime beaucoup
Very nice!
And easy enough for getting quick, neat results! Perfect for a beginner, I would say.
Thanks for sharing
I’m definitely pinning this pattern. You did a wonderful job both making it and explaining how to make. I think the pillow case size would be perfect for my sewing juniors (granddaughters) ages 11 and 8 while I do the larger one. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks everyone! It did turn out so fun. 🙂
Very pretty. Very simple. Thank’s for sharing
To quilt this did you stitch in the ditch?
I never have much success stitching in the ditch.. So I stitch an 1/8 inch next to the ditch. It’s more like top stitching or just straight line quilting.
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This pattern makes such a cute baby quilt – I just finished one and have gotten so many compliments on it. I loved the idea of using the 10″ layer cake cardboard for trimming down the blocks – such a simple suggestion but I never would have thought of it!