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Secret Garden Quilt Pattern

May 17, 2013 by Craft Passion 78 Comments

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secret garden quilt


I am so happy to get the pattern and tutorial of the Secret Garden Quilt done. Thanks to all who are patiently waiting for the pattern and tutorial to get ready. 

secret garden quilt pattern

I spent almost a year to get it up here and on my daughter’s bed, from idea to drawing to the actual quilt, then, to this Secret Garden Quilt pattern and tutorial sharing. The reason behind this long stretch of time is because I have too many tasks on hand. I was being carried away with and lost my sense of priority.

flower quilt

In early last year, we bought a new condominium (yes, we are moving from a landed double story house to a condo, crazy!) so that we could have a place of our own. The quilting idea emerging into my mind and I told myself that I am going to make each of my kids at least a quilted blanket for their new bedrooms. A quilt that they can remember for their whole life and perhaps can make it an heirloom piece to show the next generation “See, this quilt is designed and made by your grandma, and it has a name – it’s called the “Secret Garden Quilt”.”

flower applique quilt

I bought a Bernina B550 QE (quilter’s edition) from Bernina Malaysia to sew the Secret Garden Quilt. A million thanks to Kelvin who came all the way up to Penang to demonstrate how to use the machine to the fullest. I really love this machine as it has a cruise control on the sewing speed, the BSR stitch regulator, the hands-free foot lifter, and many more….. not to mention the reliability of the machine which is well known to be able to pass down for generations. Love love love it!

secret garden quilt

Hope you will quilt one soon. I am almost finished with my son’s quilt, the “Road Runner”…… stay tuned!

secret garden trapunto quilt pattern
 

Secret Garden Quilt Pattern

Pattern: Download quilt patterns, piecing layout, and fabric cutting layout (5 pages) here.

Tools & Materials
1. Applique patterns, collect the patterns and tutorials from the following pages: “Flowers, Leaves and Stems“, “Ladybug, Butterflies and Snails“, “Songbird, Tree and Sun“, and, “Secret Garden Font“
2. Applique fusible web (I used Steam-A-Seam), Qty = 20 sheets
3. Sewing Machine that is able to do free motion quilting, ie. with feed dog down or covered (I used Bernina B550 Quilter’s Edition)
4. Darning foot (or Bernina Stitch Regulator, BSR), walking foot, 1/4″ foot
5. Cotton blend batting (at least 64″ x 88″)
6. Polyester high loft batting (approximately half of the batting size)
7. Quilting cotton thread, #50, white, coordinate colors and contrast colors of your choice
8. Quilter Safety pins and/or basting thread
9. Fabric chalk or pencil and ruler
10. Cutting Mat
11. Rotary cutter
12. Scissors
13. Iron
14. Printer and papers (letter size, qty= 20)

Fabric Details:
1. White cotton 44″ wide, 4.5 yards
2. Backing fabric, Pink base white polka-dot, 44″ wide 6 yards
3. Edge binder, 2.5″, 9 yard (or use 8 strips from jelly-roll)
4. Applique and square patchwork:
Brand: Moda Fabrics
Designer: Sandy Gervais
Theme: Sassy [precuts: 5″ charm pack and 2.5″ jelly-roll]
usage: 1 charm pack and 2 jelly-rolls

sassy-jelly-roll
sassy-charm-pack
moda-sassy-fabrics
click to view bigger picture (open in new tab or new window).
 

Finished Dimension: approximately 62″ x 86″ (to suit Super Single Bed).
If you want to quilt for a single bed, the quilt size is 56″ x 86″ and the center part includes the inner boxed border is 36″ wide. Adjust the appliques and the rest of the components accordingly either by resizing them or omit some of them.

 
piecing-layout

Cut white fabric pieces according to the quilt pattern downloaded from the above link. Snip a small cut at the edge of the fabric and tear along the way is always better than cutting by using a scissor or rotary cutter. It will give you absolutely straight grain lines by tearing the fabric.
I cut the white fabric pieces with a 1″ seam allowance for the initial stage. The reason is that the fabric pieces might distort (shrink) a little during patchwork and trapunto quilting. In order to make sure you have enough fabric for piecing up, add 1″ at each side as a safety factor. Use fabric chalk or pencil to lightly mark the actual size of all of the panels (on the right side), erasable fabric marker fades away too fast. After patchwork and trapunto quilt is done, check the dimension again and redraw the marking again if needed, trim down the seam allowance to 1/4″ before you piece them up.

 
side-panel-pieces

Print out all the appliques as listed above, follow the tutorials and quilt pattern to stick them on the white fabrics that you have cut. Plan your colors and fabrics carefully for the applique, I used a 5″ charm pack for larger appliques and sometimes with jelly-roll for smaller pieces.
Refer to this method for a fast and easy way to make a huge amount of fabric applique.
Cut the high loft batting slightly bigger than the applique, pin it or use washable glue to temporarily stick it on the wrong side of the white fabric where the applique was fused on. Quilt the applique patchworks with the trapunto method.

 
trim-raw-edges

After you have done with all the appliques, trim the raw edge to have 1/4″ seam allowance, except those at the utmost edges of the quilt.

 
square-piecing

Piecing up square patchwork.
1. Sew a few strips of jelly rolls next to each other with 1/4″ foot. It doesn’t have to be fixed numbers and colors of the strip, just do it as you think will look good, for example, in a group of 3 strips, 4 strips, 5 strips, etc…
2. Cut 2 1/2″ across the roll of the strip.
3 & 4. Mix and match each set with others and sew with 1/4″ foot to make up the boxed borders and top panel of the quilt.

 
quilt-secret-garden-1

Full assembly of the front quilt after sewing all the pieces together.

 
quilt-secret-garden-2

Full assembly of the back quilt after sewing all the pieces together.
The pink/white polka-dot backing is joined by 3 pieces of panels, sides are 10″ each, and the center is 42″.

 
batting-and-backing

Now, sandwich the cotton blend batting in between the front and back pieces.
Align the backing to the front so that the 2 vertical joining lines are on the outer seam lines of the first square patchwork boxed border (the one next to the center panel). Baste them together along the lines.
Pin or baste the rest of the area.
Sew the 2 vertical lines with a walking foot. I noticed that this method is difficult to get a perfect alignment, so I tried another method when I did my son’s blanket. That second method is to baste the centerpiece of the backing to the batting and front quilt, then add and sew the two side panels followed by the top banner. I will do a more detailed tutorial when I share my son’s “Road Runner” Quilt.

 
before-quilt

Here comes the interesting and challenging part, Free Motion Quilting!!!! This quilt is huge, so you need to do it section by section by rolling the quilt up to cater to the arm space of the sewing machine.
Change your presser foot to darning foot or BSR, lower your feed dog, or cover it up.
Needle down and up to bring the lower thread up to the surface, make a few stitches on the same spot to lock the stitch. Always perform this when you start a new quilting route.
Quilt an outline just outside the appliques with white #50 quilting thread.
Continue to quilt the rest of the white areas with loopy lines (click to see the video by Leah Day) except the utmost white border. If this is your first time, practice with a 4″ swatch before quilting.
The utmost border is quilted in 1″ spacing straight lines.
Stitch in the ditch for the square patchwork boxed border, then quilt a smaller square (1 1/2″ x 1 1/2″) in alternate squares.
Hide all thread-ends into the quilt or you can trim them away.

 
binding-strips

Trim the borders of the quilt to 62″ (W) x 86″ (L) or 2 inches on the white borders and the squares of the patchwork.
Prepare 2 1/2″ binder strips by joining 8 jelly-roll strips to make up approximately 9 yards long.
Fold the strip into half (1 1/4″) and iron.

 
edge-binding

1. Align the raw edges of the folded binder to the quilt edge, sew with a walking foot of 1/4″ seam allowance around (refer to the picture below for mitered corner).
2. Stop at about 2 1/2″ away from the beginning.
3. Mark the joining distance and sew to join the binder strip together. Trim away excess.
4. Continue to sew the binder on the edge.

 
mitered-corner-binding

These are the steps to sew mitered corners for the binding.
1. Stop at 1/4″ before you reach the end of the edge, perform backstitching to secure the stitches.
2. Flip the strip up vertically to form a 45° angle.
3. Flip it down again with a horizontal fold align to the top edge. Align the binder strip to the next corner of the raw edge.
4. Sew from the top raw edge down. Repeat the same at every corner.

 
hand-sew-binding

Fold the binder over to the other side and stitch along the previous sewing lines. I like to hand-sewn this side as it gives a perfectly nice and clean seam line, though it took me a day to slip stitch the binder of the whole quilt it is worth the effort when you see the end result.
That’s it, you have got the beautiful quilt finished. I have spent months to get it done bit by bit with lots of interruptions while getting my house designed interiorly, renovated, touch up, and moving! I think I could do it within a month if I am focused enough! Bravo!

 
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Comments

  1. Sephora -

    December 13, 2020 at 11:21 am

    A Fabulous Quilt pattern . Thanks, so much, for sharing

    Reply
  2. deborah stuart -

    August 6, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    Thank you so much for this. You are an extremely generous and creative person. Thank you again!

    Reply
  3. Stacey F Hernandez -

    November 24, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    Wow, so happy I found this. Thank you so much for sharing it! Have officially started my journey in making this for my oldest granddaughter. When she’s over, she often plays in the backyard in a garden area which she calls it “the secret garden”. How perfect is this!!!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      November 25, 2019 at 1:55 pm

      Can’t wait to see your version’s of Secret Garden Quilt 🙂

      Reply
  4. AmyInNH -

    November 6, 2019 at 3:13 am

    Nice design, all the better with the vibrant colors. Thanks for sharing, you’re an inspiration.

    Reply
  5. Karen in PA -

    April 8, 2019 at 1:52 am

    Beyond adorable. Well done future grandma

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      April 8, 2019 at 9:21 am

      Still a long way to go (I hope) hahaha

      Reply
  6. Val Brady -

    March 17, 2019 at 1:02 am

    I absolutely love the Secret Garden quilt. I have all the fabrics and I have printed out the templates and pattern. Now I am confused. Do I applique each design on a piece of the white fabric and then sew the white fabrics together? Or do I applique the designs directly on the one large piece of white fabric? I don’t see any seam lines on the picture of the quilt so I’m assuming the latter.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      March 18, 2019 at 12:12 pm

      Depending on with part of the quilt are you referring, the quilt is a build-up of a few panels. Please read the instructions in detail because it is consist of a few parts. Happy sewing 🙂

      Reply
  7. Vickie Centoni -

    January 22, 2019 at 3:13 am

    Question please- how can I mark out B and C borders to make sure they are spaced apart correctly? Are they 6 inches apart 6.5? Thank You for such a fantastic pattern!!!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 24, 2019 at 9:48 pm

      The finished dimension is 6″, I allowed 1″ extra at each side (hence 8″) at the initial stage before the patchwork to account for the trapunto shrinkage.

      Reply
  8. Carey-Ann -

    October 3, 2018 at 8:14 am

    Wow!
    Such a beautiful quilt. I’m hoping one day to learn more about sewing applique. I’m a beginner at present but am fascinated with so much out there. Thanks for sharing your wonderful work. Your daughter will cherish this forever!!

    Reply
  9. Lupe -

    June 11, 2018 at 5:42 pm

    Muchas gracias por tu trabajo puesto a nuestra disposición. Eternamente agradecida. A ver si consigo hacerlo la mitad de bien que usted.

    Translation (by Google):
    Thank you very much for your work put at our disposal. Eternally grateful. Let’s see if I can make it half as good as you.

    Reply
  10. Barbara -

    June 3, 2017 at 12:43 pm

    You are a true artist. Your quilt is so creative and beautiful and I’d love to make it for my granddaughter. As a beginner, I’m hoping you might have time to answer two questions.

    1. How many 2.5 strips did you choose for the small petals?
    2. How did you determine how many petals to cut from each strip?

    I’ve signed up for your newsletter and look forward to receiving them.

    Thank you.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      June 7, 2017 at 11:34 am

      Hi Barbara, I didn’t calculate how may strips I have used for the small petals alone. As I mixed and matched the fabrics for all the patchworks, so I just chose whatever came to my eyes.

      Reply
  11. Trish Pearce -

    March 4, 2017 at 9:57 pm

    Good morning, just discovered your Secret Garden quilt, and I love it, what would be the best way to downsize the measurements for fabric, I am looking at more a throw/wall hanging verses super twin.

    Thank you 🙂

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      March 5, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      Trish, one of the best ways to down size the fabric requirement is by printing out all the patchwork patterns of your desire size, sort out the color of your choice for each pieces, gather and arrange them next to each other and measure the area they have covered, this area will be the amount of fabric needed for 1 color. Repeat the same to find out the rest of colors needed to make this quilt in smaller size. Down sizing of the big pieces of fabric is straightforward, just multiple with the percentage to the width and length. Hope this helps.

      Reply
      • Trish Pearce -

        March 10, 2017 at 8:10 pm

        Thank you so much, I appreciate the help, can’t find the fabric, so I am looking at other garden themes.

        Reply
  12. Michelle -

    November 13, 2016 at 5:23 am

    Hi I have made your quilt and I love it very much! It came out so very cute for my niece.
    I was wondering if you could tell me what font the “Secret Garden” words were from?
    I would like to add her name to the quilt, and would like to match the font.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      November 13, 2016 at 11:37 am

      Thank you, Michelle and I am happy that you love it as much as I do 🙂 I need to recall what is the font I used for the quilt as it has been quite some time ago.

      Reply
  13. Treasure -

    August 14, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    Is there any chance the Secret Garden instructions could (also) be available as a .pdf file, like the applique patterns are? It’s so much easier to make something from d/l-ed instructions, that can then (also) be printed off to use/have while cutting and sewing!!

    Meanwhile, thankyou SO MUCH for sharing this pattern! It is just lovely, and soooooo inspiring! My sister’s name is Robyn, so I already know the colorings I’ll use for the birdies for her version of it.

    Reply
  14. Amy Anderson -

    January 21, 2016 at 2:11 am

    Good morning,
    I love this sweet quilt and want to make it for my grand daughter. I have a couple of questions. First I want to use fabric by the yard instead of pre-cuts. Can you give me an idea of how many different fabrics I need and how much of each I should buy? And second, The “secret garden” font, is that section of the quilt long enough to be used as a REVERSIBLE PILLOW SHAM?

    Thank you so much,
    Amy

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 21, 2016 at 9:37 am

      Hi Amy,
      Thanks for loving this quilt. I haven’t used the pattern in non-precut fabric, so I am just going to make an estimation on the amount of fabric in yard in the mathematic way. The pre-cuts of charm pack and jellyroll come in 38 different fabrics, charm pack has 42 pcs of (5″ x 5″) fabrics in a pack (4 pcs of them are duplicated) and jellyroll has 40 strips (2.5″ x 42″) of fabrics per roll (2 pcs of them are duplicate). Based on 1 charm pack and 2 jellyroll of materials, and assumed that I have used up all the materials (which I didn’t) you will need a total 9450 square inches of fabrics. If you are going to purchase 38 different fabrics of 42″ wide, you will need about 6″ length (9450 / 42 / 38 = 6). You may apply the maths to get the optimum fabric amount that you want, for example: if you want each fabric in quarter yard, then 9450 / 42 / 9 = 25, you will need 25 different fabrics in quarter yard.
      In order to use it for the words that you want, you need to reduce the text size and probably make it to double line, otherwise, the font panel can’t take numbers of letter you want.
      Hope this help. Would be glad to see you able to proceed to make the quilt for your grand daughter soon 🙂

      Reply
      • Amy -

        January 22, 2016 at 6:26 am

        Thank you so much for all of that information!!! I really had no idea that there were so many different fabrics–from the pics, it looks like 10 to 12. My granddaughter loves Frozen but I’m afraid that she’ll grow out of it. My thought was to use the Frozen fabrics with your design to get a more timeless quilt, and she will still be able to recognize the characters that she loves.

        Thanks again!!!
        Amy

        Reply
        • Craft Passion -

          January 22, 2016 at 4:11 pm

          Frozen theme quilt, how nice!!! Lots of little girls are crazy about Elsa and Anna. By the way, my calculation is just an estimation, you might not need that much of fabrics in real facts due to wastage in pre-cut pack.

          Reply
  15. Holly -

    January 10, 2016 at 12:15 am

    Thank you so much for sharing your patterns and techniques for the Secret Garden Quilt. I absolutely love it! I created my version, using your patterns to make gifts for my daughters. They loved their quilts!

    Reply
  16. Jan -

    November 28, 2015 at 10:12 am

    Thank you for sharing the patterns and tutorials for this lovely quilt! Looking forward to making it…some day!

    Reply
  17. Cilenia -

    October 28, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    Adorable quilt! Thank you for sharing the pattern! I’m making one for my grand-daughter but in totally different colors as I hand dye all my own fabrics and she is all about Purple! LOL Been quilting 30 years, but this will be my first trapunto quilt.

    I think there is an error in your measurements on cutting layout for the backing… you have dimensions to cut, but these are the finished dimensions according to your back layout. Shouldn’t another 1/2″ be added to length and width for seam allowances?

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      November 1, 2015 at 8:55 pm

      Cool!!! Love your hand dye fabric idea and can’t wait to see your quilt 🙂

      Reply
  18. Jo-Anne -

    July 8, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    This is just amazing, you have a special gift of creating something beautiful. Wow. You made my day. Looking at something beautiful just makes my day. Thank you.

    Reply
  19. Donna -

    July 2, 2015 at 8:23 am

    You are so creative. I just love the quilt and your appliques for onesies!Thank you!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      July 3, 2015 at 4:59 pm

      Thanks for letting me know 🙂

      Reply
  20. Ruby Backert -

    June 30, 2015 at 11:14 pm

    I’ve had a lot of trouble finding the fabric for the quilt but did find it. My question is the website says 40 – 2 1/2″ X WOF. In your directions you say you used two jelly roles. But you don’t say how long they are. I’ve only been quilting since this past February and have not used a jelly role before. Can you let me know? Thanks.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      July 3, 2015 at 5:08 pm

      Hi Ruby, Jelly Roll is a standard precut fabric of 44″ x 2 1/2″. Jelly roll is cut from selvage to selvage of a fabric (usually 44″) in the 2 1/2″. In 1 pack of jelly roll, it usually contains about 40 strips of precut fabric.
      Hope this answer your question. Kindly let me know should you need more information on this.
      Thank you.

      Reply
  21. Bessie -

    June 26, 2015 at 6:05 am

    this is one of the most beautiful quilts I’ve seen

    Reply
  22. Olya -

    June 5, 2015 at 9:24 pm

    It’s a wonderful! Oh, it’s too much work, too much patience and too much beautiful 🙂

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      June 7, 2015 at 11:48 pm

      That’s always a contradiction between to-do or not-to-do for the craft you wanted so much hahaha… just do it, Olya!!!

      Reply
  23. Patricia Hixon -

    May 7, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    What a fabulous quilt. This is my next project for the summer.
    Is therein easier way of downloading the appliqué patterns etc?
    Bye for now
    Pat

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      May 8, 2015 at 9:18 pm

      Hi Patricia, all the applique patterns are downloadable from it’s respective tutorial post. I didn’t consolidate them into 1 link as I am thinking you might want to read each of the detail tutorial.

      Reply
  24. Delphine -

    March 1, 2015 at 4:08 am

    I am so impressed with your design in secret Garden quilt and it will be my first applique quilt project.Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  25. Virginia Schweigert -

    February 21, 2015 at 3:23 am

    I’m not seeing the link for the pattern. Help! Love love love the pictures

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      February 23, 2015 at 12:04 pm

      All the links are between the post on Page 1 and Page 2. You should be able to find them.

      Reply
  26. Cheryl -

    January 22, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    I have managed to find online through various sources the moda fabric used for this totally amazing quilt.
    I have one question though if I may.

    When looking at the layout pattern and reading the measurements, I do understand that the seam allowance is not included but you said in the directions that The fabric pieces layout in the quilt pattern is 1″ bigger on each side than the actual size. “”

    Does that mean that each piece is 1″ bigger?? I mean for example, The top border that is shown just above the main applique design is listed as being made up of 2″ squares for a total width of 42″.

    Does that mean that each 2″ square is not a 2″ square ? I am not understanding this part at all. 42″ wide minus how many inches?
    Or are you meaning the width and height of the panels themselves?

    I am hoping to begin this pattern within the week so any help you could give me would be really appreciated.

    OR, if anyone else reads this post and can explain this, please do email me. [email protected]
    Thanks so much,

    Cheryl

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 24, 2015 at 11:25 pm

      Hi Cheryl,
      The additional 1″ for every white pieces are for seam allowance. I make them bigger for the beginning so that you can trim down later to the actual size plus 1/4″ seam allowance, the piecing dimension still remain the same as shown in the pattern. Hope this explanation is clear. I will amend the instruction. Thank you for pointing it out.

      Reply
  27. Shirley -

    December 3, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Hi Joanne,
    This is so lovely and such a feel good quilt. This is my first time to your site. I have made simple quilts, have never tried anything like this. I would like to try in the future though. Have you ever done any owls? Thanks so much for sharing, it is awesome just to come look.

    Reply
  28. pat -

    November 3, 2014 at 9:09 am

    love love your quilt. I would really like to make but was looking for that exact fabric and cannot find it anywhere could you tell me what web site you got it from? thank you

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      November 4, 2014 at 12:48 am

      The fabric is from Moda, Designer: Sandy Gervais, Theme: Sassy. I am not sure where else you can buy the fabrics from, perhaps you can write in to Moda to inquire.

      Reply
  29. Lucy Wagtail -

    June 20, 2014 at 1:32 am

    This quilt is absolutely gorgeous. I will definately be making this for my grand-daughter. She will love it! Thank you so much for the pattern.

    Reply
  30. Kathy -

    March 25, 2014 at 10:36 pm

    I love this quilt and am just about to start making it. Thank you so much for the pattern.
    Wondering if you have any other patterns for either girls or boys similar to this.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      March 26, 2014 at 9:48 am

      Hi Kathy,
      I sewed another quilt for my son, it is in car and traffic theme, I called it “Road Runner“. Have fun sewing and quilting!

      Reply
  31. ecarp -

    January 30, 2014 at 10:44 pm

    Lovely. How smart you must be to continually crank out these wonderful and delightful designs. Thank you so much. Must try.

    Reply
  32. Christine -

    January 25, 2014 at 3:11 am

    Hi Joanne,

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful quilt pattern. My friend and I teamed up and purchased the fabric to each make a quilt for our granddaughters. We have one completed and another just about finished! We are delighted with the results. We have enough fabric to do another quilt. I know you have copyright to the pattern and would never sell the pattern. If we make another quilt, are we allowed to sell that.

    Thank you again for your inspiration and for sharing your talent and expertise so amateurs like us can create as well!

    Sincerely,

    Christine

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 25, 2014 at 9:53 pm

      I won’t stop you from selling your own handmade 🙂 Would love if you can show me how does the quilt came out. Thanks:)

      Reply
      • Christine -

        February 2, 2014 at 10:37 pm

        Hi Joanne,

        Thank you. Would gladly send you a picture. Not sure how to post it here. If you could email me, I would email a picture of the quilt that is completed and will forward the others once projects are finished.

        Christine

        Reply
        • Craft Passion -

          February 3, 2014 at 7:49 am

          Hi Christine, please send it via the contact form by clicking the “Contact Us” at the very top of the page. There is a button for you to submit a photo after the message box. Or, you may send to me via [email protected]. Please allow me to share your photos in facebook page too.
          Thank you 🙂

          Reply
  33. Юлия -

    January 23, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Роскошное одеяло, кропотливая работа. Спасибо за красоту! Это вдохновляет!

    Translation (by Google):
    Luxurious duvet, painstaking work. Thanks for the beauty! It is inspiring!

    Reply
  34. Neha -

    January 15, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    Hello,

    This is such a beautiful quilt. I simply love it. Hopefuly, some day, when I have time, I’ll be able to get my hands on a sewing maching and make this beautiful quilt. Your designs inspire me so much.
    Can you please tell me where in London (or around) I can get some cheap cloth?

    Thanks!!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 16, 2014 at 9:28 am

      Hi Neha, Glad that you are going to sew this quilt. Sorry, I am not so familiar with London.

      Reply
  35. Pei Shung -

    January 13, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Hi Craft Passion,

    Your Patchwork is such marvelous! May I know where can I get cheap and nice cotton cloth to make all this patchwork? Could you please recommend some from Taiwan whereby is cheap and can purchase online? I would want to make the same as cute as yours!
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 13, 2014 at 4:10 pm

      I am not sure about Taiwan, but you can buy from Fabric Fanatics. They might be able to ship to you.

      Reply
  36. Dannielle -

    January 10, 2014 at 1:49 am

    This is so beautiful! I hope to one day make a quilt that looks this good!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      January 10, 2014 at 10:24 am

      practice makes perfect, you will achieve it one day 🙂

      Reply
  37. Flávia -

    December 1, 2013 at 7:09 am

    Amazing!! wonderful!! surely one day try to do
    xoxoox

    Reply
  38. tmgcr -

    September 21, 2013 at 1:59 am

    qué belleza, me fascina!!!! Tanto así que no puedo describirlo en ingles!! 😉

    Translation (by Google):
    what beauty fascinates me !!!! So much so that I can not describe it in English !! 😉

    Reply
  39. aynee -

    July 20, 2013 at 11:53 am

    Hi, your blog very inspiring me *thank you* I already tried one and I made pillow secret garden and its failed 🙁 but I will make it again…I have set of singer presser foot, which one I can use for trapunto quilt? Because I dont have bernina stitch regulator.

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      July 22, 2013 at 9:43 am

      You will need a darning foot or embroidery foot (the oval or half circle foot that has a spring on it), it should comes with the machine.

      Reply
  40. Teresa -

    July 8, 2013 at 10:23 am

    I thought I was special until I came across with your blog. I am astonished!

    Reply
  41. Beverly -

    June 21, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    This is adorable! We have a new grand daughter and i think this will be a great quilt when she moves to a twin bed! I’m going to save this pattern! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  42. Kerryn -

    June 4, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    Wow! You are truly talented. That is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen! Don’t know if I’m brave enough to try it, but it’s something to aspire to!

    Reply
    • Craft Passion -

      June 5, 2013 at 10:14 am

      Thank you, Kerryn. I was pondering the same when I first saw this method more than a year ago…. with practices on smaller projects, I gained the confident to make a bigger quilt at last! You can do the same!

      Reply
  43. Jandy -

    June 3, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    Thank you for this stunning pattern I’ve enjoyed watching it develop.

    Reply
  44. VickiT -

    May 20, 2013 at 2:25 am

    WOW!!! Just the most adorable quilt ever! Beautiful work and the detail in the instructions you have been SO kind to take the time to write up are fabulous. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! I love this pattern.

    Reply
  45. Gladys -

    May 18, 2013 at 11:07 am

    It’s Wonderful and Amazing! Thank you very much for sharing this with us! Have a nice weekend! A hug!

    Reply
  46. rosa -

    May 18, 2013 at 5:25 am

    It`s absolutely beautiful!

    Reply
  47. Lisa -

    May 18, 2013 at 4:31 am

    I really like this quilt! Especially the “secret garden” 🙂

    Reply
  48. jane -

    May 18, 2013 at 3:56 am

    That is just stunning! I love it, you’re so clever 🙂 x

    Reply

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