Formal Garden by Jane Sassaman
#1
Formal Garden by Jane Sassaman
sigh. why does this designer think this is the whole pattern one would need? Me, maybe when i bought the fabic kit at a quilt show that came with the "free" pattern. Now years later i look at it and think what? my poor brain doesn't do much thinking for itself these days.love the fabric but right now i'm finishing off many, many tops I put aside.
http://www.janesassaman.com/Jane_Sas...l%20garden.pdf
pretty isn't it? Sometimes i love weird prints!
http://www.janesassaman.com/Jane_Sas...l%20garden.pdf
pretty isn't it? Sometimes i love weird prints!
#2
I love Jane Sassaman's quilts and fabrics, but I agree with you that this is not a sufficient pattern. It's probably not too hard to fussy cut the fabric in the right size squares to sew them together, but it would have been nice to have it explained and a couple of pictures provided.
#6
There is an old thread about this as well, maybe reading it might give you some help? Formal Garden quilt
interesting youtube interview with Jane discussing one of her other designs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yoeFKIueVY
interesting youtube interview with Jane discussing one of her other designs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yoeFKIueVY
Last edited by thimblebug6000; 08-05-2022 at 07:07 AM.
#7
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I'm not a very experienced quilter, so what I say may make no sense. What I would do is lay the fabric out and stare at it for a while - both pieces. Then I would map the quilt out on graph paper. They says they are 6 1/2 inch squares. So make each 1 inch equal 6 1/2 inches on your graph paper. I think I would get colored pencils and color code the squares as I figure out what goes there (maybe blue, pink and red). (You may have it figured out before you get this far.)
I would take my 6.5 inch ruler and use it to figure out which piece goes where. By placing the 6 1/2 inch ruler on top of the uncut fabric, you can figure out what the pieces are and where they go.
It appears to me that there are 2 pink flowers and 1 blue flower in each square. Then there are 2 blue flowers and one pink in the next block. Then the other fabric goes somewhere in the middle.If you graph it out on paper where each fussy cut square goes and which way it faces, you'll see how to cut the fabric.
At least I would try doing this before putting it back in the drawer.
I did this for a quilt that had more pieces that this but I just couldn't get the diagonal part and how the pieces went together. (The cutting wasn't an issue.) the graph paper worked for me.
bkay
I would take my 6.5 inch ruler and use it to figure out which piece goes where. By placing the 6 1/2 inch ruler on top of the uncut fabric, you can figure out what the pieces are and where they go.
It appears to me that there are 2 pink flowers and 1 blue flower in each square. Then there are 2 blue flowers and one pink in the next block. Then the other fabric goes somewhere in the middle.If you graph it out on paper where each fussy cut square goes and which way it faces, you'll see how to cut the fabric.
At least I would try doing this before putting it back in the drawer.
I did this for a quilt that had more pieces that this but I just couldn't get the diagonal part and how the pieces went together. (The cutting wasn't an issue.) the graph paper worked for me.
bkay