Mushrooms Anyone?

Aimee Griffin – Instructor

Pattern Required: Mushrooms Anyone

Fabric requirements:

·         Background fabric (white)- 2 yd

·         Printed fabrics – 12 to 16 fat quarters or ½ yards of 6 to 8 fabrics

(Variety of pinks and reds)

·         Outer Border:  ½ yd 

·         Mushroom appliqué:

o   Scraps for mushroom tops, insides, and stems (or one fat quarter)

o   One fat quarter of  grassy green

o   Scraps of green for grass

·         Fusible web 2 yd

·         Tear -away Stabilizer (for use underneath the appliqué’ as needed)-2 yd

• ½ yard binding
• 3 yards for backing

Other Supplies:

          Sewing Machine and Gizmos

          Scissors

          Mat

          Creative grid 6 ½”x24 ½” ruler

          Creative grid 12 ½” square ruler

          3 ½” x 12 ½” ruler

          Rotary cutter with new blade

          Glass head pins

          Thread and extra pre-wound bobbins

Personal iron and cut and press (optional)

Baggies for cut units

Pigma pen

Appliqué pressing sheet

Threads to match appliqués

Remember to label everything!

Cutting:

Background fabric (white)

·         Five 5”strips- sub-cut into forty 5” squares

·         Four 3 ¼”strips- sub-cut into forty 3 ¼” squares

·         Three 1”strips sub-cut into

o   Eight 1”x4 ½” rectangles

o   Eight 1”x 5 ½” rectangles

·         One 6 ½” strip- sub-cut into

o   one 6 ½”x15 ½” rectangle and

o   Two 1”x8 ¼” rectangles (spacers)

Inner border- four 2” strips (white)

Printed fabrics (pinks, reds)

·         Forty 5” squares in a variety of red/pink prints

·         One strip 3 ½”- sub-cut into

o   One 3 ½”x 15 ½” rectangle (spacer)

o   One 1 ¾”x4 ½” (Spacer)

o    

Outer Border: (red)

          Cut four 3” strips

Mushrooms:

o   scraps for mushroom tops, insides, and stems( red, off white, beige/brown, grassy green)

o   one 4 ¼”x15 ½”rectangle of grassy green

Using a pigma pen or pencil, trace each Mushroom piece of appliqué onto paper side of fusible web with about ½” between pieces.