Fabric FreeSpirit Kaffe Fassett Blue Roman Glass by the Quarter Yard GP01.BLWH

Make it with OESD: Grow a Colorful Kaffe Fassett Quilt

Turn a few favorite prints into a garden of flowers, leaves and playful pots. Blue Roman Glass would bring a lovely splash of blue to Kaffe Fassett's Leafy Applique Quilt, with its little mosaic circles adding interest to individual appliqué shapes. Pair it with contrasting prints and a quieter background so every leaf and petal has a chance to shine.

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Leafy Applique Quilt by Kaffe Fassett

The collection includes 19 machine embroidery designs with blanket-stitch edges that give the appliqué a charming hand-stitched look. OESD's quilt layout combines 42 blocks in six columns and seven rows, giving you plenty of room to play with fabric combinations.

Check your hoop first: The largest design measures 7.97" x 7.84". You'll need a usable embroidery field of at least 8" x 8" (about 203 x 203 mm) for the full collection; a 200 x 200 mm field is too small for the largest designs. Check your machine's supported file format, too.

Build your own Kaffe color story

Use this Blue Roman Glass as one of your appliqué prints, then try Lime Paperweight for fresh greens and Red Paperweight for a warm pop of color. Preview each shape over the fabric before cutting to find a mix you love. These are our suggested pairings, not a match to every fabric in OESD's sample.

For the full quilt, OESD lists 16 assorted prints for appliqué and scrappy binding, 3¼ yards of background cut into 42 oversized 10" squares, 2 yards of backing and batting measuring 52" x 58". Check the guide before ordering. Our fabrics are sold in continuous quarter-yard increments; allow for fussy cutting and repeats rather than assuming one quarter yard will cover every use of a print.

Gather your embroidery essentials

• Prepare the fabric: OESD Fusible Woven supports the back of the background squares, while OESD Applique Fuse and Fix prepares the pre-cut appliqué pieces and holds them in position.
• Support each block: Hoop OESD Ultra Clean and Tear, then secure the prepared background as shown in OESD's guide. OESD TearAway Tape helps hold the floated fabric in place.
• Finish the details: The project's thread chart calls for Isacord embroidery thread in Umber. Have an embroidery needle, sharp scissors and a scoring tool ready. The OESD Perfect Embroidery Press Cloth is handy for pressing the blocks face down after stitching.

Enjoy it one block at a time

1. Choose and prepare your shapes. Use the guide's mirrored appliqué templates at 100% scale, checking the printed 1" test square. Print onto the paper side of Fuse and Fix with a compatible printer, or trace the shapes. Fuse to the wrong side of your chosen prints and cut precisely along the template outlines.
2. Let the machine add the finishing touch. Prepare and stabilize a background square, then follow the design's placement stitches. Peel the backing from each prepared shape, position it within its placement line and finger press. Stitch the blanket-stitch tackdown and continue through the file's sequence. Try one block first to check your fabric, stabilizer and thread combination.
3. Bring the garden together. Remove excess TearAway, press and trim each completed block to 8½" square. Label the blocks as you go, then follow OESD's layout, including its rotated border blocks. Piece the rows with ¼" seams, then layer, quilt and bind.

Open OESD's quilt instructions and appliqué templates for the complete materials list, design counts, stitching steps and assembly diagram.

This listing is for Blue Roman Glass fabric by the quarter yard. Embroidery files, coordinating fabric, background, backing, batting, thread, stabilizers and tools are sold separately. The linked collection supplies the embroidery designs; the fabric choices above are a suggested variation, not a complete quilt kit.