ABOUT THE PATTERN

Making patchwork fruit is fun! This rainbow-colored sampler includes: Strawberries, Bananas, Pears, Cherries, Peaches, Raspberries, Oranges, Mangos, Watermelon, Plums, Lemons, Grapefruit, Apples, Kiwi, Cantaloupe, Pineapple, and Blueberries. 17 different kind of fruit!

Make a 75” x 75” Large Quilt with 4 of each block, or a 38” x 38” Small Quilt with one of each. The Large Quilt is made with fat quarters, or a combination of fat quarters and fat eighths, and the Small Quilt is made with 10” x 10” squares. With such a variety of blocks, different amounts of each fabric will be used, so this is also a great project for using scraps.

The Produce Section quilts are made using conventional patchwork. No templates or paper piecing!

QUILTING NOTE

My cover sample was quilted by Emily Hoppe of So Sunny Quilts using Anne Bright’s Arches design.

KONA SOLIDS QUILT

You can use this guide to make a quilt using 36 Kona Solids for the fruit blocks. These fabrics will work equally well with a Kona UltraMarine background, as shown in these photos, or with a Kona Lingerie background, like my original pattern cover quilt.

This quilt was quilted by Emily Hoppe of So Sunny Quilts using Julie Hirt’s No Fuss Orange Peel pattern and chartreuse thread.

Note: The quilt shown in my photos was made using a combination of Kona Solids, Essex yarn-dyed linen blends, and Manchester cottons. I’ve created a fabric guide using all Kona Solids both because some of the fabrics I used are no longer available, and because I wanted to improve some of the color relationships from my quilt. Of course, you should feel free to use whatever fabrics you want to personalize your own quilt!