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Quilting: 3D Sailboat
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3D Sailboat

Pattern Info

This project was designed by gurlfriday.
Info can be found at:

3D Sailboat Quilt »

Instructions

It is paper pieced.

Difficulty:

Category: Quilting

Type of item: Functional

For: Children

Style: Cute


Materials

I used 100% cotton fabrics. It is paper pieced and I am selling the pattern here on Craftsy.

What was your inspiration?

A quilt in Fons & Porter's Best Seasonal Quilts book. It was a flat pieced quilt and I wanted to make it a dimensional paper-pieced quilt.

What are you most proud of?

That I stayed with it for three days and finally figured out how to make it work. I have made two of them and everyone who sees them really loves them.

What advice would you give someone starting this project?

Don't use the horizontal looking sky fabric, get a mottled all-over and let it just suggest sky. If you do use sky like I did, you will have to cut the pieces to each side of the boat at a 60 degree angle.

 

4 comments

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gobigredh508335 on craftsy.com
Jun 16, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
So sorry to learn the pattern is no longer available. I love it! Is just the flag on top 3-dimensional??
gurlfriday on craftsy.com
Jun 16, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
The sails are also 3-D. I hadn't made the block in about 1-1/2 years when I wrote up the pattern instructions. When I attempted to make another one, I realized how much more information I needed to include in the instructions. Sorry about that, but I do hope to have it corrected and on sale again soon.
gurlfriday on craftsy.com
Mar 15, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Thank you so much. I invented it after being hesitant to try a pattern which had flat triangles that needed to be put together perfectly. I was worried I couldn't do it, so I spent 3 days figuring out how to make a three dimensional sailboat using paper piecing. I'm really pleased with the outcome.
crochet4fun on craftsy.com
Feb 28, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
wow, love this! Very nice work!!!!