Aspen in a different box: forty prints, and the bands across the quilt change character completely.
This is the Blossom Breeze version of Aspen, the strip and charm quilt that keeps every column in phase so the strips line up in bands that cross the whole top. The quilt is the same one, 58 1/2 by 75 inches, thirteen units across and six rows down, with a single cut made after the sewing.
The Morning Mist original is twenty greens sitting close together, which makes the bands read as one soft block of color. Blossom Breeze is forty prints in pink, aqua, teal and navy, so the same bands break into a scrappy ribbon and the white rows between them stand out further. It is the same arrangement doing a louder job.
Download the Aspen pattern in Blossom Breeze
Eleven pages, free to print, use and teach from, with the fabric list, the one cut, the rows, the layout, the binding and five sizes.
Download the free Aspen quilt pattern PDF, Blossom Breeze version
Everything you need to make this quilt
Blossom Breeze + White Supreme Bundle 284pcs
200 Precut Fabric Strips 2.5" x 10" + 84 Squares 5"
What it takes
Five packs of mini strips, forty to a pack: 156 for the top and 38 for the binding, out of the same packs, with 6 left over. Two packs of 5 inch white squares, 78 of them in the top. Backing is 2 3/8 yards of 108 inch wide fabric at 66 1/2 by 83 inches, and the batting matches.
Every row in this quilt lines up with the one above, so the four strip seams inside each unit run straight across without a break. That is the part that asks for an honest quarter inch, and our quarter inch seam guide has the test: sew one strip set, measure 8 1/2 inches across, then sew the other thirty-eight.
Spreading forty prints
With twenty prints and eight strips of each, a band has repeats in it whether you like them or not. With forty prints and four of each, you can build a band where nothing repeats, so the eye travels along it instead of stopping. Lay the units out on a wall and move them until the two halves of a strip set are far apart and no two matching prints touch, either along a row or between rows.
Then photograph the wall before you sew. It is the cheapest insurance in quilting.
If you want the same unit in a gentler arrangement, Alder turns whole rows and leaves almost nothing to match. Our mini strips and charm squares cover the fabric if you are building it from your own.
The rest of the family is in our free quilt patterns.
