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Sixteen Patch and Contrary Wife

Lap quilt · 57″ square · Intermediate · 8 colourways

16 blocks · 8 fabrics · 57 × 57″

Finished at 57 × 57 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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Bands of sixteen-patches and bands of contrary wives, each band facing the one above it.

8 colourways

What you’ll practise

  • sixteen-patch
  • contrary wife
  • rows that face each other
  • lap

Your copy is your own: rename it, swap the fabrics, change the size. Nothing you do here changes the one on the shelf.

See it go together block by block, in these fabrics, before you cut a thing.

The fabric in this one

Kaffe Fassett x Morris & Co. citron

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