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Bouquets For A Cure
Quilt designed by:
Lynn Dash
Fabric designed by:
Bonnie Benn Stratton
for Hi-Fashion Fabrics, Inc.
Machine quilted by:
Pat Burnham
Finished Quilt Size
89
1/2" x 101 1/2"
Number of Blocks and Finished Size
16 Bouquet Blocks 12" x 12"
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In 1997, McCall's Quilting teamed up with fabric
designer Bonnie Benn Stratton's Quilt For A Cure™ program to help
raise funds to find a cure for breast cancer. Since then, many advances
have been made and breast cancer awareness has been raised to new heights,
but a cure has yet to be found. We continue our mission to help with the
fight by offering our readers another quilt design using Bonnie's newest
Quilt For A Cure™ fabric line, Garden Botanica, manufactured by Hi-Fashion
Fabrics, Inc. As always, a percentage of all sales of the fabric, as well
as 10 cents for each copy of this issue sold on newsstands, will go directly
to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In addition, proceeds from the
raffle of this quilt at the American Quilter's Society Show in Paducah,
Kentucky, will also be donated to the foundation.
This year's quilt was designed and pieced by Lynn Dash
and machine-quilted by Pat Burnham. We thank them for lovingly donating
their time and hope their efforts will in some way put an end to this
disease that has stricken so many, including many of our quilting sisters.
We hope you, too, will find a way to use this quilt design to benefit
such a worthy cause.
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Fabric Requirements ...
Cream print (background) 4 1/4
yds.
Rose/green print (blocks, outer border) 2 3/4 yds.
Dark green print (blocks) 3/4 yd.
Floral bouquet print (block centers) 2 1/4 yds.
Dark green fern print (block border, flange) 1 3/4 yds.
8 assorted prints (pieced borders) 1/8 yd. each
Medium green print (borders) 1 1/8 yds.
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Rose print (binding) 1 yd.
Backing (piece widthwise) 8 1/4 yds.
Batting King size
Other Materials ...
Sewing thread
Monofilament thread (machine quilting)
Template plastic
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Planning, Cutting, and Marking ...
Notice that the center of each block is cut from the same floral bouquet
print. This particular fabric includes bouquets with morning glories on
the left and bouquets with morning glories on the right. In her quilt,
Lynn used 12 bouquets with morning glories on the left and 4 bouquets
with morning glories on the right (see side blocks). Be sure to purchase
enough fabric to repetitively cut 16 squares. To ensure that you cut identical
squares, make a template from clear plastic. (Include seamlines so you
can center the motif.) Place template on bouquet with morning glories
on left, centering bouquet as desired, and trace guidelines directly on
template. Mark around edge of template and cut out. Using guidelines drawn
on template, place, mark, and cut 11 more identical squares. Repeat process
to cut 4 identical bouquet squares with morning glories on right.
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