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Shoo Fly Checkerboard
Lap quilt · 54″ square · Confident beginner · 10 colourways
16 blocks · 3 fabrics · 54 × 54″
Finished at 54 × 54 inches. That is the size this one is drawn and cut for.
Pick your fabrics
Tap a set and the quilt changes. Every one of them is cut and sewn the same way.
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Shoo flies and nine-patches trade places all the way across, with cream sashing and a small denim cornerstone wherever two strips meet.
10 colourways
What you’ll practise
- shoofly
- nine patch
- sashing
Good to read before you start
Your copy is your own: rename it, swap the fabrics, change the size. Nothing you do here changes the one on the shelf.
The pattern
Every piece drawn where it goes — this is what you will be sewing, block by block.
See it go together block by block, in these fabrics, before you cut a thing.
The fabric in this one
Kaffe Fassett citron
- Riley Blake Wovens Sesame Dotty WovenWovens · Riley Blake DesignsFat Quarter Shop
- Leafy Roman GlassKaffe Fassett Collective · FreeSpirit FabricsFat Quarter Shop
- Basics MaraschinoGrunge · Moda FabricsFat Quarter Shop
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