Mandarin Dynasty Quilt

Single Bed 68" x 80"  (170 x 200 cm)

Materials and Cutting

Single Bed - 2.35 meters of feature fabric cut into 11, 8½" strips across the fabric from selvedge to selvedge.
.65cm of contrast fabric for the narrow strips, cut into 16, 1½" strips.
80, 4½" squares to tone with feature fabric.  Or ten strips across the fabric, 4½" wide cut into 4½" squares.
.60cm for binding, cut into 2 1/4" strips.

Making

Sew 3 strips of 10 small squares in rows. Trim four of your feature fabric strips to this length, and 8 of your contrast strips to this length.

Join these pieces as per photo - contrast, feature, contrast, squares, contrast etc.

Join the remaining 1½" strips into one long piece. sew a strip of this to each of the long sides of your centre panel.

Now add a border of the small squares, a border of the contrast, and a final border of your feature fabric.

Quilt and bind.

Large 70" x 63" (180 x 160 cm)

Materials and Cutting

Feature Fabric - 2 meters
Cut into 9, 8½" wide strips across the fabric.

Plain Black - 80cm
Cut into 12, 1½" strips for sashings; and
cut into 6, 2¼" strips for binding.

Colours - 7 lots of 20cm
Cut into 2, 4" strips from each fabric.

Making

Sew the 4" coloured strips together side by side. Press.
Crosscut 12, 4" wide strips.
Unpick the darkest colour from 6 of these strips.
Join the strips with darkest fabrics together.
You will need 6 strip sets in total.
Using the 1½" black strips, the feature fabric and the 4" pieced strips, assemble the quilt as per the photo.

Whilst not all of the fabrics used are still available we can offer kits for these quilts including a colour print of the pattern.

Single bed $90.00 for top and binding. Large $110.00 for top and binding.

Alternate size/fabrics