Bracken Precut-Friendly Kit | Canvas | Baby | 40.5" x 49.5"

What a precut-friendly kit is

A precut-friendly kit is built around precuts, fabric already cut to standard sizes, counted for one specific quilt. You don't choose fabrics or work out yardage, and most of the cutting is done. It isn't a fully precut kit in the usual sense: the fabric comes as standard precuts, not as pieces cut for this quilt alone. In Bracken there's nothing to cut for the top: the squares go in as they come.

What's included

• 5 packs of Canvas 5" squares by Northcott, 42 to a pack (210 squares), which is what the baby size takes.
• The Bracken pattern as a free PDF, on the pattern page above.

What's not included

• Binding fabric. The pattern doesn't take its binding from these squares.
• Backing, sized for the baby in the pattern's table.
• Batting, cut to the same size as the backing.
• Thread.

The quilt

Bracken finishes at 40 1/2" x 49 1/2", the baby size. It moves in two waves: each column holds the same color run in the same order, and the start of the run shifts from one column to the next. There is nothing to cut for the top and nothing to trim afterward.

At a glance:

• Manufacturer: Northcott
• Collection: Canvas
• Colorway: Assorted
• Fabric: 100% cotton
• Construction: Woven
• Quantity: 210 precut 5" x 5" squares
• Package contains: 5 packs of 42
• Variety: Mottled tonal prints in many colors, with duplicates

Why this quantity

This is the count that Sumac, Bracken and Larkspur ask for at baby size, which is 40 1/2 by 49 1/2 inches. It is the same pack you can buy on its own, counted out so that one order covers the whole top instead of two orders and a wait in between. The throw size of those three takes 294 squares, and that count has a listing of its own.

Texture that still reads as color

Canvas looks like painted cloth. Each square has movement, but from a step back it reads as a single color, so the pack works as blenders or as a whole rainbow in one quilt. The cutting is already done.

Good to know before you order

Canvas is a printed texture, not a solid. The packs are assorted and include duplicates, so some colors appear more than once and the mix leans toward earthy tones rather than pastels. Across 210 squares that works out at about ten of each color, and a baby size color run uses nine of each, so you finish with squares to spare.

Features & Benefits

• 210 precut 5" squares so that you skip the cutting and go straight to sewing
• Mottled, cracked texture so that the quilt has depth without a busy print
• A wide range of colors so that you can sort a full color run from one order
• Enough for a whole quilt top so that you are not counting squares halfway through
• 100% cotton so that it presses crisp and sews like the rest of your quilt shop fabric

Great For

• Sumac, Bracken and Larkspur at baby size, our three free color run charm quilt patterns
• Rainbow and color run charm quilts
• Half-square triangles and four-patch blocks
• Table runners, mug rugs and pillow fronts