Option A Scrappy Fall Leaves Cindy Carter 2008 Free Pattern http://carterquilter.wordpress.com/ Option B Free Pattern 1
Copyright Information I have created all of my quilt patterns to be used as a FREE resource to other quilters. I am not making a profit on them and explicitly prohibit others from doing so. That being said, all you wonderful quilters please use them to create quilts for yourself and others. You may sell any quilts you make for a profit (no mass production). You may exhibit your quilts. I would love it if you all can use the patterns as a resource to help others, gifts for others who are sick or in need, our military, charities and fundraisers of any kind. You may use the patterns to teach classes as long as you provide the patterns free of charge to your students. Quilt store owners - If you would like to reproduce any of the patterns and provide them free of charge to your customers, please email me first. Please respect the work I have done in creating these patterns and make sure proper credit is given if you are reproducing and sharing the patterns with others. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Cindy Carter carterquilter@gmail.com Getting Started This is a scrappy quilt with a very definite fall theme. Solids, batiks, marbles and tone on tone work great. Prints with a smaller fall leaf theme are excellent. Novelty prints and larger prints will not work. I am recommending a darker colored background color for this fall quilt. This can be gold, red, purple, darker green, brown, orange or any other color that says fall to you. You have the option to make the quilt easier or harder by substituting 4 HSTs with 4 squares in one section of the quilt. They measure 4.5 unfinished. Choose your quilt size: Lap - 65" by 65" Twin - 74" by 92" Full/Queen - 92" by 92" Free Pattern 2
Fabric Requirements: Lap - (12) Fat 8ths (9 by 22 ) assorted fall fabrics or 1 ½ yards of one fabric for the leaves. (31)10.5 by 6 rectangles of assorted fall fabrics or 1 ½ yards of one fabric if you are making 4.5 HSTs for the quilt center. If you are using fat 8ths you need (16). OR (61)4.5 squares assorted fall fabrics or 1 yard of one fabric if you are making squares for the quilt center. If you are using fat 8ths you need (8). 1 ½ yards background fabric. 1 ½ yards black fabric. If you are making a squares center cut (31) 4.5 squares of black fabric and (31) 4.5 squares background fabric. Twin - (16) Fat 8ths (9 by 22 ) assorted fall fabrics or 2 yards of one fabric for the leaves in the border. (56) 10.5 by 6 rectangles of assorted fall fabrics or 2 ½ yards of one fabric if you are making HSTs for the quilt center. If you are using fat 8ths you need (28). OR (112) 4.5 squares assorted fall fabrics or 1 ¾ yards of one fabric for the quilt center if you are making squares. If you are using fat 8ths you need (14). 3 yards background fabric. 2 yards black fabric. If you are making a squares center cut (56) 4.5 squares background fabric and (56) 4.5 squares black fabric. Free Pattern 3
Full - (18) Fat 8ths (9 by 22 ) assorted fall fabrics or 2 ¼ yards of one fabric for the leaves in the border. (73) 10.5 by 6 rectangles of assorted fall fabrics or 3 ½ yards of one fabric if you are making HSTs for the quilt center. If you are using fat 8ths you need (37). OR (145) 4.5 squares assorted fall fabrics or 2 ¼ yards of one fabric for the quilt center if you are making squares. If you are using fat 8ths you need (19). 3 ¼ yards background fabric. 3 yards black fabric. If you are making a squares center cut (73) 4.5 squares background fabric and (73) 4.5 squares black fabric. My fabric requirements are based on using the free templates for my HSTs from http://www.quilt.com/blocks/trianglepapers/triangles.html. If you are using another method for your HSTs you may need to make some adjustments. Some of the fabrics I am auditioning. Free Pattern 4
Fabric for your leaves: Cut (3) 3.5 squares fall fabric for each leaf Lap Quilt Cut (44) 3.5 squares background fabric Twin Quilt Cut (64) 3.5 squares background fabric Full/Queen Quilt Cut (72) 3.5 squares background Cut the following 9 squares to make your 3.5 HSTs: Lap Quilt (11) 9 squares background fabric and (11) 9 squares fall fabric and (11) 3 HST templates. Twin Quilt (16) 9 squares background fabric and (16) 9 squares fall fabric and (16) 3 HST templates. Full/Queen Quilt (18) 9 squares background fabric and (18) 9 squares fall fabric and (18) 3 HST templates. Get your free templates here: http://quilt.com/blocks/trianglepapers/triangles.html Be sure to run a test print of the templates first. Do a print preview to make sure it is printing at 100% scale. Alter the top and bottom margins to 0 so that the template will fit on one page. Pair 1 square of background fabric with one square of fall fabric. Lay each pair with the right sides of the fabric together. Pin a template paper on the top. Change machine to a smaller stitch. I use 1.8 on mine. Sew on the dotted lines of the template. When done sewing cut the template and fabric apart on the solid lines. Remove paper. Press the HSTs to the background fabric. You will have 8 HSTs from each template. Lap 88 HSTs from 11 templates Twin 128 HSTs from 16 templates Full/Queen 144 HSTs from 18 templates Set aside. Free Pattern 5
Optional - Making your 4 HSTs for the center of your quilt: They will measure 4.5 unfinished. Lap Quilt Cut (16) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from black fabric and (16) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from background fabric. Twin Quilt - Cut (23) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from black fabric and (23) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from background fabric. Full/Queen Quilt - Cut (37) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from black fabric and (37) 6 by 10.5 rectangles from background fabric. Gather your 6 by 10.5 rectangles of background fabric, black fabric and fall fabric and 4 HST templates printed from: http://quilt.com/blocks/trianglepapers/triangles.html Be sure to run a test print of the templates first. Do a print preview to make sure it is printing at 100% scale. Alter the top and bottom margins to 0 so that the template will fit on one page. Pair 1 rectangle of background or black fabric with one rectangle of fall fabric. Lay each pair with the right sides of the fabric together. Pin a template paper on the top. Change machine to a smaller stitch. I use 1.8 on mine. Sew on the dotted lines of the template. When done sewing cut the template and fabric apart on the solid lines. Remove paper. Press the HSTs to the background or black fabric. You will have 4 HSTs from each template. Lap 121 HSTs from 31 templates Twin 221 HSTs from 56 templates Full/Queen 289 HSTs from 73 templates Set aside. Free Pattern 6
Creating a Quilt Center with Squares: Sew each fall fabric square to a black square or a background square. If making the Lap Quilt, set aside 11 pairs and 11 squares. If making the Twin Quilt or Full/Queen Quilt set aside 17 squares. Sew each pair together to make a unit with 4 squares. Lap Quilt: Take (2) 4 square units and sew them together and add one or your reserved squares to the end. You will have 11 rows with 11 squares in each row. Twin Quilt: Take (3) 4 square units and sew them together and add one or your reserved squares to the end. You will have 17 rows with 13 squares in each row. Free Pattern 7
Full/Queen Quilt: Take (4) 4 square units and sew them together and add one or your reserved squares to the end. You will have 17 rows with 17 squares in each row. Notice that the beginning and ending squares on each row are either both fall fabrics or both black and/or background fabric. Press the seams for each row in opposite directions then sew the rows together. Free Pattern 8
Creating a Quilt Center with HSTs: Sew each black and fall HST to each background and fall HST. If making the Lap Quilt, set aside 11 pairs and 11 HSTs. If making the Twin or Full/Queen Quilt set aside 17 HSTs. Make sure the black and background fabrics are in the bottom left of the HST. Sew each pair together to make a unit with 4 HSTs. Lap Quilt: Take (2) 4 HST units and sew them together and add one of your reserved pairs and one of your reserved HSTs to the end. You will have 11 rows with 11 squares in each row. Free Pattern 9
Twin Quilt: Take (3) 4 HST units and sew them together and add one or your reserved HSTs to the end. You will have 17 rows with 13 HSTs in each row. Full/Queen Quilt: Take (4) 4 HST units and sew them together and add one or your reserved HSTs to the end. You will have 17 rows with 17 HSTs in each row. Press the seams for each row in opposite directions then sew the rows together. Free Pattern 10
Creating an Inner Border: You need to piece strips together to get the right length. Lap Quilt (2) strips black fabric 1 by 44.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 1 by 45.5 (top and bottom) Twin Quilt (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 68.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 2.5 by 54.5 (top and bottom) Full/Queen Quilt (2) strips black fabric 2.5 by 68.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 2.5 by 72.5 (top and bottom) Sew the side borders on first, press to the black. Then sew on the top and bottom borders and press to the black. Free Pattern 11
Making Your Leaf Border Assemble your 3.5 fall fabric HSTs, 3.5 fall fabric squares and 3.5 background fabric squares. Feel free to make the leaves totally scrappy with multiple fall fabrics in each leaf or use just one fall fabric in each leaf. It is your quilt. Sew each row. Press each row in alternate directions. Sew rows together. Press seams towards bottom of leaf. Lap Quilt 22 Leaves (5 leaves in the side borders and 6 in the top and bottom borders). Press to the inner border. Twin Quilt 32 Leaves (8 leaves in the side borders and 8 in the top and bottom borders). Press to the inner border. Full/Queen Quilt 36 Leaves (8 leaves in the side borders and 10 in the top and bottom borders). Press to the inner border. Alternate the orientation of each leaf. Free Pattern 12
Creating an Outer Border: You need to piece strips together to get the right length. Lap Quilt (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 63.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 65.5 (top and bottom) Twin Quilt (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 90.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 92.5 (top and bottom) Full/Queen Quilt (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 90.5 (sides) (2) strips black fabric 1.5 by 92.5 (top and bottom) Sew the side borders on first, press to the black. Then sew on the top and bottom borders and press to the black. Free Pattern 13