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Have fun designing your own unique version. These quilts illustrate some of the layouts you can achieve with simple Kaleidoscope blocks.
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You can see how that works in the picture below. That makes her version seem even more complex. Notice how she matched the colors in those corner triangles so that when four block come together a square is formed. Look carefully at Kyndra’s quilt and you’ll see how she used a similar two-block color placement in her quilt. Here are two blocks isolated from Cindy’s quilt. It’s the same block, just the color placement has changed between the two blocks.
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It’s presented in the form of a quilt-along, so scroll down the page to access each of the tutorials.Ĭlick here for the “Kaleidoscope Quilt” quilt-along tutorials and block template.Įlizabeth’s version seems less complex than the two shown above but that’s simply due to fabric placement.Įlizabeth made every block the same, while Kyndra and Cindy alternated blocks made with two different color placements. Notice how the blocks are larger than in Kyndra’s version and there are fewer of them.Įlizabeth Dackson of Don’t Call Me Betsy provides an excellent tutorial to use in making your own Kaleidoscope quilt. Here you can see just how charming prints are when made up in this pattern. Kyndra was inspired by this quilt by Cindy at Hyacinth Quilt Designs. Batiks and small scale prints would be just as lovely. Print off as many copies of the pattern as you need. To get your own copy of this pattern, click here: To start this project you will need the foundation pattern.
#Kaleidoscope quilt free#
The solid fabrics glow against each other. This is what the free kaleidoscope quilting pattern will look like once youve completed a block. We love the vivid colors used in this version by Kyndra at Sewlio. Voilà, the quilting block is done with expert procession.Careful placement of neutral triangles (white, in this case) make the overall design stand out in the quilts shown here. Now, carefully tear away the paper from the back of your quilting block. Trim the excess cloth and leave a ¼ inch seam allowance around the outer edge of the block. Once at this point, baste with long stitches around the edge of your block. Unpin, unfold and pin section #A3 into proper place on the paper guide.Ĭontinue to work in this manner until all the pieces are stitched into place. Trim excess material ¼ inch away from the seam that was just sewn. Hold up to light to ensure proper placement. Make sure the seam edge overlaps the seam line and all around to the neighboring sections by at least a ¼ inch. Lay the material for piece #3 over #2 with right sides touching. When piece #2 is unfolded, pin it into the fabric’s proper place on the paper guide. Remember to keep ¼ for the seam allowance all around. Once the pieces are stitched together trim whatever excess material there is. This can be done with either a sewing machine or by hand. Sew on the line using stitches that are 1 to 1.5 mm. Place the materials paper side facing up. Hold the fabric up to the light to make sure that the placement is ideal. Remember that you want all of the right sides on the materials to be facing away from the paper when the block is finished. The entire place of the design and overlap the surrounding places by at least ¼ Make sure it has good placement by holding the two up to a light source, Is particularly helpful when it comes to sewing them together.įabric in a way to ensure that all of the pieces are at least ½ inch biggerīe the exact shape of your design pieces.įor example, it could be rectangles that you cut out, but your finalįirst piece (#A1) of fabric with the wrong side touching back side of the paper, That the fabric won’t shrink when you wash your final quilt and that you will Once you have all of the copies printed out of the free kaleidoscope quilting pattern, move on to the “Steps”. You can use regular printer paper, but printing on the dull side of freezer paper makes the pattern easier to work with.