Choose and order
Purchase the curated 16-print palette in half-yard increments, reserving the strongest large-scale prints for 1½-yard cuts.
Design concept
A garden that becomes denser toward the edges
The center highlights the largest blooms as framed botanical portraits. As the composition moves outward, the flowers become smaller and more numerous, creating the feeling of a garden spreading beyond the bed.
The English Garden collection
Fabric palette
Click any swatch to open its Fenwick Fabrics product page. Images are loaded through the Worker from each product page’s Open Graph image.
Construction map
Build plan
This plan preserves the look of the original while scaling it for a king bed with meaningful side and foot overhang.
Make windows
Create transparent 8″ and 4¼″ fussy-cutting windows. Audition motifs before cutting into the fabric.
Cut hero blocks
Cut the 8″ feature blocks first from the largest motifs. Smaller motifs and remnants feed the border squares.
Design the layout
Balance warm and cool colors, avoid clustering repeated prints, and let the largest flowers lead the composition.
Assemble the center
Piece the large flower blocks into rows, alternating pressing direction so seams nest cleanly.
Grow the garden
Add rings of smaller blocks until the quilt reaches approximately 110–112″ square.
Binding note
Bias-cut stripe for movement
A striped binding can be cut at 45° to the grain to create a barber-pole effect around the quilt. For a non-striped binding, straight-grain strips are simpler and completely appropriate.
Working pages
Notebook
Every page built for this project so far, plus the original pattern this whole quilt started from.
Shopping board
The full Fenwick shopping board with thumbnails, yardage, and a check-off list for each of the 16 fabrics.
OpenFabric swatches
A clean swatch-only grid, no labels or prices — just the prints, for auditioning the palette.
OpenQuilt grid
The corrected full-bleed image grid of all sixteen fabrics, each linking to its Fenwick product page.
OpenOriginal pattern
The Kaffe Fassett Seed Packets pattern this project enlarges to king size.
Open PDFFussy-cutting templates
Printable, true-to-scale window templates for the 8″ hero blocks and 4¼″ border blocks.
Open PDFDesign wall
Crop fussy-cut motifs from each fabric and drag them into hero and border slots to plan the real layout.
Open toolProject record
Journal
The journal area is ready to grow into dated progress posts, layout photos, fabric arrivals, cutting notes, and the finished quilt story.
First entry
The palette is chosen
Sixteen Kaffe Fassett prints were curated to create a balanced mix of hero blooms, supporting florals, and texture. The next milestone is ordering fabric and building a paper design wall from scaled print images.