Nothing in this quilt is turned. Every unit goes in the same way up, and the last row leaves its white square off so the quilt ends on color the way it began.
Hazel is a free quilt pattern that finishes at 58 1/2 by 70 1/2 inches. There are no corners to match, no points, and no direction to keep track of. You make one unit, you lay the units down in rows, and that is the quilt.
It was designed by Marbelia Fernandes, The Fabric Hut Co-Founder, and this version is made in Blossom Breeze, forty prints in pinks, aquas, teals and navy, with White Supreme squares.
Pattern details
- Pattern name: Hazel
- Designer: Marbelia Fernandes, The Fabric Hut Co-Founder
- Finished size: 58 1/2" x 70 1/2"
- Size category: Throw
- Difficulty: Beginner, and the plainest of the family
- Block: Strip and charm unit, 12 1/2" x 4 1/2" finished, 65 of them plus a last row of strips only
- Technique: Strip piecing, chain piecing, one cut
- Fabric: Blossom Breeze mini strips and White Supreme 5" squares
- Price: Free to print, use and teach from
Download the Hazel quilt pattern
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 Hazel quilt pattern PDF
Everything you need to make this quilt
Blossom Breeze + White Supreme Bundle 284pcs
200 Precut Fabric Strips 2.5" x 10" + 84 Squares 5"
The plainest quilt in the family, on purpose
Four mini strips sewn along their long edges, cut in half, and a white square added to the short end. Sixty-five of the halves get a square. The other thirteen do not, and those make the last row, which is why the quilt is 70 1/2 inches tall rather than 75.
All six rows face the same way, so the strip seams run straight across the quilt without a break and the white squares line up in columns down it. Nothing is turned, nothing alternates, and there is no sequence to keep track of while you sew.
It is hard to photograph and easy to live with. What you get is not clever, and it is the one that will get used until it wears out.
What you need
Five packs of mini strips, 2 1/2 by 10 inches, forty to a pack. The top takes 156. Two packs of 5 inch white charm squares, and the top takes 65, which leaves 19 spare.
The binding takes 36 more strips out of the same five packs, with 8 left at the end. Backing is 2 1/4 yards of 108 inch wide fabric for 66 1/2 by 78 1/2 inches with no seam, batting to match. Our backing guide covers the choice.
Working from your own stash? Keep the squares far lighter or far darker than every print, because in this quilt the white bands are what hold forty busy prints apart. Our mini strips and charm squares are the starting point.
Where the accuracy lives
There is one cut, after the sewing, across each strip set. Because every row lines up with the one above it, the seams inside the units have to meet across the whole width, and that is the one place a wandering quarter inch will show.
Four strips sewn together have to measure 8 1/2 inches. Sew one strip set and measure it before you sew the other thirty-eight. Our quarter inch seam guide walks through the test.
Press the strip set seams open and alternate the direction you sew them, so the set does not bow before it is cut.
Sewing it
Chain piece everything: the strip sets first, then the squares. Our guide to chain piecing has the setup. Press the seams between units to the right in rows one, three and five and to the left in rows two and four, so they nest when the rows go together.
Lay the six rows out before you join them, with the strips-only row at the bottom, and spread the repeats so that no two matching prints touch.
Its brothers
Hazel is the quiet one of seven quilts from the same unit. Aspen turns some of the rows and gains bands of white. Alder lays the unit down. Blackthorn alternates inside the row and ends up looking like brickwork.
They are all in our free quilt patterns.
P.S. If you want the quilt a little longer, give the last row its white squares like all the others. That is the 75 inch version, and it is the only change.
