This is the last part of the “Secret Garden Quilt” patterns, font applique, before we get into the how-to-quilt section. If you have missed out the previous patterns, here are the links:
1. Flower Applique Patterns
2. Ladybug, Butterfly & Snail Applique Patterns
3. Songbird, Tree & Sun Applique Patterns
It has been months since I finished quilting this Secret Garden Quilt for my daughter’s bedroom of our new home. I didn’t meant to drag it this long and as anxiously as you are, I wanted to share it out as soon as I can. Time is running fast and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week seems a little hectic for my super long to-do list.
When I rushed, I made more mistakes in many decisions and processes. Apart those from the renovations, one of the mistakes related to this post is I saved the photos into a newly yet wrongly formatted external hard disk. It was really frustrated when I was unable to retrieve the photos in the wrong format external hard disk, where I can only be able to open the photos in MAC and not the Windows PC in my office. So, I have to wait until I am back home, copy all the photos from the hard disk (more than thousand of them which are huge RAW files) to another temporary hard disk, reformat the hard disk so that it works on both MAC and WIN systems, then copy all the files back to it. It took me a night and a morning to do it….. really a great lesson to learn.
After showing all the 4 sets of applique patterns above, I am sure you already be able to guess how the quilt will look like. I hope that I can update the how-to-quilt tutorial by next week. Please stay tuned!
Thank you very much for this pattern, it is beautiful! One question I have is: do you need to enlarge any of the printouts? it seems the wording is small as well as some of the flowers; I’m just trying to picture it.
Thanks 🙂
The template is in full size. Please check the scaling of your printer, it should be set to “do not scale” or 100% scale. Provided you need a bigger font size, you can always enlarge it. 🙂 Have a nice day.
I would really like to make this quilt, i can’t seem to find where it tell you how many of each appliqué design you need to cut out. Am I missing something?
Hi Marylee, due to the lengthy instruction to make up the complete quilt, I have splitted the pattern into a few posts. Please go the main Secret Garden quilt pattern to get all the links to the individual applique pattern page, read through the instruction to get the require number of copies you will need to print out for each applique template. Hope this explained. Happy sewing.
Beautiful quilt and so creative. I did the limb and leaves idea on a baby quilt and placed an owl on the branch. I drew mine from scratch and wish I would have seen this before. Would have been so much easier with your pattern pieces and other ideas to go along. Mine was my first applique try and I loved the way it came out but you have really expanded my ideas of what I can create. Thanks so much.
Would be happy if you could make the second quilt with this pattern 🙂
I do hope your daughter has a great deal of fun using this quilt. It is made with such love and is so inspiring as to what can be done with ingenuity, patience and time. Thank you for taking the time to share and I hope to use parts of your ideas in my quilts. Happy sewing, may your needles not break and the thread run smoothly.
Thank you, Penny 🙂
I’m a great fan of your secret garden quilt and I’m trying to make one for myself. Do you have a picture of the finished blanket? I can’t wait to see the next tutorial 🙂
Hi Kessy, I am in the process to get the final quilt pattern and tutorial finish, it will be on the next tutorial. Should be by this week or latest next week.
GREAT!!!
adorably cute. 🙂
j adore tout ce que vous faites vous etes tres douee biz jojo
Translation (by Google):
I adore everything you do you are very talented biz jojo