Bracken Precut-Friendly Kit | Canvas | Throw | 58.5" x 72"

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

• 7 packs of Canvas 5" squares by Northcott, 42 to a pack (294 squares). The throw takes 208, thirteen across and sixteen down, which leaves 86 spare.
• 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, 66 1/2" x 80".
• Batting, cut to the same size as the backing.
• Thread.

The quilt

Bracken finishes at 58 1/2" x 72", the throw. 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: 294 precut 5" x 5" squares
• Package contains: 7 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 throw size, which is 58 1/2 by 72 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.

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 294 squares that works out at about fourteen of each color, which is what a repeating color run needs.

Features & Benefits

• 294 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 rainbow run or a light to dark wash 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, our three free color run charm quilt patterns
• Rainbow and colorwash charm quilts
• Half-square triangles and four-patch blocks
• Table runners, mug rugs and pillow fronts