![]() ![]() This blanket is just begging for someone to snuggle under it. □Īll those snipped edges fray in the wash and you get a really soft, fluffy ridge between each block. You could use flannel here too if you like, but I love my Warm Neutrals. I use these Heat & Bond Lite printable fusible adhesive sheets and all my fabrics are from the Warm Neutrals fat quarter bundle. I used my favorite fusible adhesive method. □Īpplique 30 of the squares using any method you like. Sneaky tip – if you have some ugly flannel that you can’t figure out how it got into your stash, cut 30 of the squares out of that and hide it in the middle of your layers. You can get nine from one yard of fabric. Dryer sheets are fine.Įach block is three layers of flannel, so you’ll need to cut 90 blocks, each 11 inches square. Don’t use fabric softener in the wash – it can resist the fusible adhesive. I think people don’t usually do that for rag quilts, but flannel is notorious for shrinking a lot and I didn’t want the shrinking to distort the applique. I used ten flannel colors (one of each color in the Dash Plaid collection from Dear Stella Fabrics) and bought one yard of each. You can resize the pattern by changing the size of the blocks or by changing the number of blocks. It’s 5 blocks wide and 6 blocks tall and the blocks all finish at 10 inches. My quilt is nap sized – 50 x 60 inches – perfect for using on the couch. If you’re using someone else’s pattern you may need to enlarge or reduce the images. All the square quilt blocks in my own patterns are already sized for 10 inch blocks. I made mine using the Bunches of Bears quilt pattern, but you could use any quilt pattern you like. We use it all the time, and every time I look at it I think that it would be super easy to add applique to that style of quilt.Īnd it was just as fun and easy as I thought. Several years ago my mother-in-law made us a fantastic flannel rag quilt. ![]()
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