This fun blanket has a pocket on the back so that you can fold it away, making it compact and easy to carry or store when not in use!
Fabric featured -
Botswana Green Craft Cotton Fabric | Dunelm
Ditsy Tulips Blush Craft Cotton Fabric | Dunelm
Sewing level - confident beginner/Intermediate (quilting, applique and bias binding used)
Finished size – 31 x 39.5”
Finish size folded – 11” square
What you’ll need:
12 8.5” squares of fabric
8 contrasting sash fabric strips measuring 2.5 x 8.5”
3 30” sash strips measuring 30” x 2.5”
2 side border strips measuring 2.5” x 41”
2 top and bottom border strips measuring 32” x 2.5”
33x40” Wadding
33x40” backing fabric
145” bias binding
Applique pocket-
1 square of fabric measuring 8.5”
1 square of contrasting fabric for applique shape measuring 8”
2 contrasting border strips measuring 2.5 x 8.5”
2 contrasting border strips measuring 11.5 x 2.5”
Backing fabric measuring 11.5” square
32” webbing for the strap
tools needed:
monstera leaf template (this can be printed online)
scissors
iron
fusible adhesive sheet
basting spray (505)
Use ¼” seam allowance unless stated otherwise
1. Sew a strip of contrasting sash fabric right sides together to one square along one side.
2. Press the seam flat. Sew the next square right sides together to the strip. Open and press.
3. Repeat until you have 3 squares sewn to 2 sash strips.
4. Repeat with the remaining squares and sash strips until you have 4 panels.
5. Sew a long sash strip to the bottom edge of the first panel right sides together. Press seam flat.
6. Sew the next panel right sides together to the bottom of the sash strip. Press seam flat.
7. Repeat until all 4 panels are sewn to 3 sash strips.
8. Sew the side border strips right sides together to either side of the quilt. Press seams flat.
9. Sew the top and bottom strips right sides together to the quilt. Press the seams flat.
10. Adhere the wadding to the back of the quilt using a basting spray.
11. Adhere the backing fabric to the back of the wadding wrong sides together.
12. Quilt the quilt! Sew lines ¼” from each seam of the square create a square inside each panel. Sew diagonal lines from each corner of the squares.
13. Sew the bias binding around the entire edge of the quilt. When starting, fold the bias binding back by ½” to neaten the edge. Sew right sides together mitring the corners. Overlap the end of the bias binding. This will be hidden when folded back.
14. Fold the bias binding over the edge of the quit and hand sew to the back with a slip stitch.
15. To make the pocket, adhere the sheet to the back of the fabric for the applique. Using the template, draw a leaf shape on the adhesive sheet.
16. Cut this shape out.
17. Sew the 2 side border strips of fabric to either side of the square right sides together.
18. Sew the top and bottom border strips to the square right sides together.
19. Use a basting spray to adhere the leaf shape to the middle of the square.
20. Use a small zigzag stitch on your sewing machine to sew around the entire edge of the leaf.
21. Use a triple straight stitch on your sewing machine to create the veins of the leaf.
