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Flower Appliqué Pattern

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Flower appliqué patterns bring a delightful touch of nature to all kinds of crafting projects. Whether you’re making a quilt, adding a whimsical detail to a tote bag, or creating a lovely dress for a child, these patterns are perfect for infusing your creations with a personal touch. They are versatile and easy to customize with different fabrics and textures, so you can transform ordinary materials into unique pieces that capture the freshness and beauty of a garden.

Download free flower appliqué patterns complete with leaf and stem to complete the Secret Garden Appliqué Quilt or for other sewing projects.

This flower appliqué pattern is part of the tutorials for the Secret Garden Appliuqé Quilt and I included the Trapunto quilting method to make the appliqued flowers “pop up”. However, you may adapt the pattern using the usual applique method.

Also, do not limit this flower appliqué to only making quilts or sewing projects. You may adapt the pattern to do other crafts such as stenciling, Heat-Press vinyl to your T-shirt, and, of course, scrapbooking and card making. It’s a fun way to incorporate appliqués into various crafts and give your everyday items a special touch!

Download free flower appliqué patterns complete with leaf and stem to complete the Secret Garden Appliqué Quilt or for other sewing projects.

Here are the related appliqué to this Flower pattern:

  1. Ladybug, Snail & Butterfly Appliqué Patterns
  2. Songbird, Tree, and Sun Appliqué Patterns
  3. “Secret Garden” Letters Applique Patterns

What’s Next:

secret garden flower applique

Flower Applique Pattern

Yield: Flower Applique
Active Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Difficulty: Avid Beginner/Intermediate
Estimated Cost: $2 - $10

Download free flower appliqué patterns complete with leaf and stem to complete the Secret Garden Appliqué Quilt or other sewing projects.

Download the pattern here:
1. Flower and Leaf Applique Patterns in small, medium, and large size
2. Flower Stems Pattern

Enjoy sewing them!

Materials

  • Applique patterns (printed or traced on paper)
  • Applique fusible web (I used Steam-A-Seam)
  • Scrap fabrics
  • Base fabric (to place your applique on)

Tools

  • Scissors
  • Iron
  • Printer and papers (letter size)

Instructions

[Update] For Secret Garden Quilt: Download and print the complete ready-to-stick-on applique fusible web pattern in mirror image here:

  1. Small Flowers, print 8 copies.
  2. Medium and Large Flowers, print 2 copies.
  3. Leaves, print 1 copy.
  4. Stems, print 1 copy.

More Details On How To Sew Flower Applique

  1. Since the Secret Garden Quilt requires a lot of appliques, I used a fast and easy method to make a large number of fabric appliques.
    Or, use your favorite method to cut out iron-on fusible applique pieces.
    fusible applique pieces


  2. Make a small mark on the base fabric where you wish to place the flower.flower applique


  3. Peel off the fusible web backing paper of the chosen flower stem pattern, and stick it on the base fabric.flower applique


  4. Followed by the flower’s petals surrounding the marking. Make sure the base corner of the petals just touches each other but does not overlap.flower applique pattern


  5. Then stick the circle to the center of the flower.flower applique pattern


  6. Repeat the process to position and stick the stems and flowers, then complete the flowers with leaves.flower appliques


  7. Set the iron to medium heat and press on the appliques for about 2-3 seconds.
    Lift up the iron as you press part by part; don’t glide your iron across the appliques that are not securely fused to the base fabric.iron on applique


  8. Sew along the raw edges with straight stitches. I did 3 rounds to make the stitch lines bolder. You can also use a zig-zag stitch, blanket stitch, or other decorative stitches suitable for this applique.
    Repeat the same to the stem and leaves.stitched raw edge applique


  9. Since I am making this flower applique for my daughter’s “Secret Garden” blanket, which is a trapunto quilt, I layered the bottom of the applique with high-loft batting and then sewn 3 rounds around the raw edges.
    This picture shows the back of the sewing work of the single flower without the stem. I didn’t layer batting on the stems as they are too thin to get the “pop-up” effect.
    Do the same to the leaves if you want to “pop-up” the leaves too.trapunto applique


  10. Trim the extra batting away with small sharp point scissors, just slightly outside the stitch lines.
    The picture below shows the finished flower applique with trapunto quilting, aka part of the “Secret Garden” Quilt Blanket.
    Read more on the Trapunto Quilt method.flower applique


Download free flower appliqué patterns complete with leaf and stem to complete the Secret Garden Appliqué Quilt or for other sewing projects.

Notes

Get the full article at https://www.craftpassion.com/flower-applique-pattern/

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Eli Gonzales

Saturday 21st of October 2023

I have searched endlessly for size of blocks, borders, the quilt itself and cannot find it anywhere. I was able to find appliqué pictures but nothing on background cutting instructions. Please help…I love this quilt but I do not dare guess how to make it.

Craft Passion

Saturday 21st of October 2023

There are links within the post that you can click to the final quilt pattern. I put it in this comment too just in case you can't find it.

Robin

Sunday 30th of July 2023

Beautiful Quilt. What fabric collection did you use for the quilt, or did you use fabric from your stash?

Craft Passion

Monday 31st of July 2023

I used Moda Fabric's Sassy, unfortunately, it is discontinued. More details on the quilt, please visit the Secret Garden Quilt.

Hadassah Miriam Gold

Tuesday 16th of February 2021

Hi , your quilt is very beautiful, I can use my Accuquilt cutter to help out. I have mobility issues so this will help. I just received my Bernina 770QE ,its a great machine and good for my mobility issues.I'm not sure when I can do this its in my sewing bucket list.

Barb

Wednesday 18th of November 2020

What a great pattern it's Beautiful!!! Thank You so much for sharing!!!

deb

Sunday 15th of March 2020

'I LOVE this quilt..it is ADORABLE!!! You are very talented and I'm AMAZED at your kindness to share this pattern....THANKS for sharing and hope you keep designing more awesome designs...I need to keep looking thru your blog because I'm new to it and I've seen a few more ideas that my granddaughter and I would like also...THANKS AGAIN!!

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