Designing and making a new quilt is an fun journey. An idea sparks and then if the planets are aligned, the house is tidy, everyone in the family is in a good mood then it all just flows . . . this is one of those designs.
I did a Goldilocks quilt for Homespun magazine last year and had always intended to expand on it. When my youngest daughter Heidi was a baby I had also made a Red Riding hood quilt to hang on her wall so she was always going to join the much larger scale quilt.
Heidis quilt - no stereotypical girlies in our family . . . Red is definitely in charge of this big bad wolf!
Anyway, in discussion with my three girls we decided which of our favourite stories would make the design, I chose a colour scheme based around a beautiful floral print with lemons and lilacs & . . . ta-dah! . . . its a fairytale feast x x
(terrible photo I know, but it had to meet a shipment to America for Spring Market so you'll have to forgive me!)
Red Riding Hood makes her appearance . . .
. . . on her way to Grandmas!
Goldilocks and her chums are also back . . .
. . . Heidi used to be a big Repunzel fan . . . not so much now though!
. . . and the Princess and the Pea is my favourite. Thumbelina and the Little Mermaid also feature in the design.
Hope you love it as much as we do - in fact my 14 year old has already put her name on this one!
Happy stitching!
x Claire
The pattern will be released at the up-coming International Quilt Market in St Louis and distributed through my global distributors Creative Abundance and Checker US. A PDF version for instant download from my Easy store will be available from June 1st 2017
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