Sew your own fruity quilt!

We’re feeling fruity with Jo Hart’s new fruit quilt blocks! Take to your stash of blenders and piece up a cocktail of Jo’s Foundation Paper Pieced quilt blocks. There’s a pineapple, pear, cherry, orange, and banana block so if you sew them together you’ll have one tasty fruit quilt. If a fruit quilt isn’t for you then you could turn your blocks into pouches, cushions, bags… the possibilities are endless. Jo’s fruit quilt blocks were originally in issue 88 of Love Patchwork & Quilting. Pick up a copy of their latest issue for more funky quilting projects. If you’re new to the world of quilting don’t worry. Just head over to our quilting for beginners guide for more help with technique and also discover the best sewing machine for quilting or best long arm quilting machines in our round-ups. Now it’s over to Jo for her fruit quilt blocks.

You will need:

• Background fabric: ¾yds
• A selection of scraps or fat eighths for fruits
• One (1) copy each of Banana (Sections A–B), Cherry (Sections A–K), Orange (Sections A–F), Pear (Sections A–H), Pineapple (Sections A–D) FPP templates. Find the templates from Love Patchwork & Quilting’s templates issue 88.

Finished Size

• 7½ in square

Notes

• Seam allowances are ¼in, unless otherwise noted.
• Press seams to one side, unless otherwise instructed.
• Press fabrics well before cutting.
• FPP = Foundation Paper Piecing.
• For FPP, set your stitch length to 1.5.
• FPP templates include seam allowance around the outer edges only.
• Fabrics supplied by Craft Cotton Co. (craftcotton.com)

Fruit quilt blocks

Jo Hart

Jo specialises in designing fun Foundation Paper Piecing patterns for the modern quilter, which she shares on her website unicornharts.com and in her pattern store payhip.com/unicornharts. She’s obsessed with fabric and paper piecing, is a Craft Cotton Co blogger and Island Batik Ambassador. Her quilts have been regularly featured in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine.

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