Free Flourish Quilt Appliqué Templates

Ever since we featured Colby Radcliffe’s show-stopping Flourish quilt in issue 58 of Love Patchwork & Quilting, we’ve loved seeing your new versions of it. In this post you can find the fabric requirements, templates and layout guides to make this project.

For the full instructions, download the Love Patchwork & Quilting app to purchase issue 58 of LPQ from our digital back issues archive.

Stitch the rainbow! Bright fabric collections like Chroma by Alison Glass are great for a project like this

You will need

• Fabric A and B: one (1) fat quarter each
• Fabric C – P: one (1) fat eighth each (fourteen total)
• Fabric Q – Y: one (1) fat sixteenth each (nine total)
• Background fabric: 3½yds
• Bias binding fabric: 1¼yds
• Fusible web: 2½yds (at least 24in width)
• ¼n bias tape making tool
• One copy each of Templates A1–A31 and B1–B31 (see Notes)
• One copy each of Design Layout A and Design Layout B (see Notes)
• Fabric marking pen/pencil
• Glue pen and glue refills
• Backing fabric: 4½yds
• Batting: 66in x 78in
• Binding fabric: 1½yd

Finished size

60in x 72in

Notes

• Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
• Press seams open, unless otherwise instructed.
• Templates include seam allowances, where necessary.
• Design Layout does not include seam allowance.
• Wash and press all fabrics well
• Colby used Steam a Seam Lite for her fusible web.

Fabrics used

• Print fabrics are Chroma by Alison Glass for Andover Fabrics.
• Bias binding and binding fabric is Manchester in Onyx by Robert Kaufman.
• Background fabric is Essex Linen Mix
• Homespun in Charcoal by Robert Kaufman

Flourish Quilt Templates and Layout Guide

• Flourish Quilt Applique Templates
• Flourish Quilt Layout Guide

Zoe Williams

Zoe launched Gathered.how as editor in 2019. A keen crafter, quilter and sewist, she has worked with the UK’s best-selling craft magazines – from Today’s Quilter to Love Patchwork & Quilting, Simply Sewing and The World of Cross Stitching. With over a decade of craft publishing experience under her belt, she loves crafting with her kids and curling up on the sofa with a spot of hand patchwork. Zoe has previously written for radiotimes.com, Simply Knitting and The World of Cross Stitching and was previously Deputy Editor of Papercraft inspirations magazine. She has guest-lectured at Bath Spa University. She’s a keen quilter with 5 projects in progress at any one time and another 12 or so planned. Specialist skills include hand modelling for YouTube craft tutorials and fabric foraging (she has an inbuilt radar for local haberdasheries and community craft gatherings).

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