The English Garden Quilt Blueprint

How many blocks does this quilt actually need?

This computes a real medallion layout: a center grid of hero blocks surrounded by a ring of border blocks, sized to land as close as possible to your target quilt size. Adjust the numbers, then generate the board.

Sashing adds one uninterrupted frame of solid fabric between the hero core and the border ring — set it to 0 for no sashing (blocks sewn edge to edge).

Backing & batting

Based on the finished size above, plus a safety margin on every side for shifting while you hand-quilt in a hoop or frame.

Since this one's hand-quilted: reach for a low-loft cotton or wool batting rather than polyester or a high-loft poly-blend — it needles far more easily and gives the traditional flatter, close-stitched look instead of a puffy machine-quilted one.

Fabrics

Click a fabric to crop a fussy-cut piece. This tray is shared with the design wall — cropped pieces show up on both pages.

Cut pieces

Drag a piece onto any open slot in the board.

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Fabric usage

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