Tone Finnanger - Quilts from Tildas Studio

Welcome to Tildas studio, filled with quilts and pillows that you will love making for every season.

We begin in spring with the Scrapflower Quilt and its matching pillow, bright with flowers in pinks, yellows, teals and greens. The Birdhouse Quilt continues the garden theme with sweet little birds and their houses against a sky of fresh blues. The bolder colours of summer are excitingly displayed in the Fan Flower Quilt, with lilacs and corals glowing against a deep blue. For autumn we revel in the fruity colours of plums, peaches and blueberries in the Plum Quilt and the Plum Garden Village Quilt, with its cute houses and rows of fruit trees. Finally, we reach the cool greys and blues of winter with the fun Happy Snowman Quilt and its matching pillow.

On your journey through the seasons you will discover quilts and pillows suitable for a wide range of sewing abilities. You may prefer easy designs, such as the Four Block Quilt or Cosy Stripe Quilt. Or you might relish the challenge of the Cat and Bird Quilt and the Plum Party Quilt.

We have used fabrics from several of the Tilda collections. Specific details are given for those used, however, any of them can be replaced with others in similar colours. Many of the quilts and pillows can also be made in alternate colourways and a visit to www.tildasworld.com will show these alternatives. The projects have been lavishly custom quilted but it will be easy for you to use simple home quilting.

The instructions and illustrations are clear and comprehensive, so whatever project you choose to make is sure to be a success and add beauty to your home. I wish you joy in your quilting.

This fresh and colourful quilt uses only one block but because it is made in twenty-four different colourways, it gives the quilt a charming scrappy look. There is also a version of the quilt with a sunny yellow background, which is made in exactly the same way (see www.tildasworld.com). A matching pillow has been designed for this quilt see the next chapter.

• Fabric 1: 18yd (15cm) Peggy pink
• Fabric 2: 18yd (15cm) Billy Jo red
• Fabric 3: 18yd (15cm) Bonnie red
• Fabric 4: 18yd (15cm) Nancy red
• Fabric 5: 18yd (15cm) Shirly red
• Fabric 6: 18yd (15cm) Billy Jo yellow
• Fabric 7: 18yd (15cm) Sue mustard
• Fabric 8: 18yd (15cm) Shirly dove white
• Fabric 9: 18yd (15cm) Bonnie mustard
• Fabric 10: 18yd (15cm) Nancy yellow
• Fabric 11: 18yd (15cm) Shirly teal
• Fabric 12: 12yd (50cm) Nancy teal
• Fabric 13: 18yd (15cm) Peggy sage
• Fabric 14: 18yd (15cm) Sue dove white
• Fabric 15: 18yd (15cm) Bonnie sage
• Fabric 16: 18yd (15cm) Peggy blue
• Fabric 17: 18yd (15cm) Shirly blue
• Fabric 18: 18yd (15cm) Billy Jo blue
• Fabric 19: 18yd (15cm) Bonnie blue
• Fabric 20: 18yd (15cm) Nancy blue
• Fabric 21: 18yd (15cm) Pearls pink
• Fabric 22: 18yd (15cm) Pearls yellow
• Fabric 23: 18yd (15cm) Pearls teal
• Fabric 24: 18yd (15cm) Pearls blue
• Fabric 25: 12yd (50cm) Pearls green
• Fabric 26: 58yd (60cm) Solid sky teal
• Fabric 27: 334yd (3.5m) Solid cornflower blue
• Fabric 28: 14yd (25cm) Solid fern green
• Backing fabric 5yd (4.6m)
• Wadding (batting) 69in x 89in (175cm x 226cm)
• Binding fabric 58yd (60cm) Pearls yellow
• Erasable marker

Finished Size 60in x 80in (152.4cm x 203.2cm)

Fabric Note Where a long eighth or long quarter of a yard is given in the Materials list you could use fat eighths and fat quarters instead. A fat eighth is assumed to be approximately 1012in x 18in (26.7cm x 45.7cm) and a fat quarter approximately 21in x 18in (53.3cm x 45.7cm).

Before you start, refer to .

Fig A Fabric swatches if you cant source a fabric, replace with one in a similar colour

Fig B Quilt layout

Fig C Block colourways
Numbers indicate fabrics used
Make 2 of each block

All of the blocks use the solid blue Fabric 27 as a background, so there are many pieces to cut. Cut these now, putting them in labelled piles. Their sizes are also given in . The shapes are squares and rectangles, so cut the fabric in strips across the width and then sub-cut into the sizes needed. The total numbers to cut for the whole quilt are given here.

• Piece a 112in x 412in (3.8cm x 11.4cm). Cut 192.
• Piece c 212in x 312in (6.4cm x 9cm). Cut 192
• Piece d 112in (3.8cm) square. Cut 384.
• Piece e 312in x 112in (9cm x 3.8cm). Cut 192.
• Piece g 112in (3.8cm) square. Cut 384.

Fig D Layout and cutting for one quadrant and the centre of a block

For the print fabrics, the exact measurements for cutting out the pieces for each block are given with the print fabrics are pieces b, f and h.

Cut the backing fabric in half across the width. Sew the pieces together along the long side. Press the seam open and trim to a piece about 69in x 89in (175cm x 226cm).

From the binding fabric cut eight strips 212in (6.4cm) x width of fabric. Sew together end to end and press the seams open. Press in half along the length, wrong sides together.

A block is made up of four identically pieced sections (quadrants), plus one centre square. shows the layout of one quadrant of the block, with the letters indicating the cut sizes of the fabric pieces.

Cut out the pieces needed for the block (Block A is described and illustrated here). Follow the measurements on . Seam allowances are included. The Fabric 27 blue solid pieces have already been cut and for this fabric you will need to select the following for each block.

• Four a pieces.
• Four c pieces.
• Eight d pieces.
• Four e pieces.
• Eight g pieces.

For the Block A print fabrics, cut the following.

• Four b pieces (Fabric 25) 212in x 412in (6.4cm x 11.4cm).
• Four f pieces (Fabric 19) 312in (9cm) square.
• One h piece (Fabric 21) 212in (6.4cm) square.

Make one block as follows (Block A is described). For the pieced section