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Cupcakes! A Mini Quilt
By: Lynn Koolish
Finished Size: 24″ x 24″
close-up of quilt block
Ingredients
- Block background fabric: 9 squares 6˝ × 6˝ (½ yard)
- Scraps for cupcake appliqués
- Border corner blocks: 4 scraps 3˝ × 3˝
- Sashing fabric: 6 strips 1¼˝ × 6˝, 4 strips 1¼˝ × 18½˝, and 2 strips 1¼˝ × 20˝ (1/4 yard)
- Border fabric: 4 strips 3˝ × 20˝ for borders, additional strips for binding (¼ yard)
- Backing fabric: 26˝ × 26˝ (¾ yard)
- Batting: 26˝ × 26˝
- Decorative trim: 4½ yards (optional)
- Buttons
- Paper-backed fusible web, 17˝ wide: ½ yard
Instructions
Note: Seam allowances are 1/4˝.
1. Iron paper-backed fusible web to the wrong side of the fabric scraps for the cupcake appliqués. Remove the paper backing.
2. Click here to download the cupcake patterns. Use the patterns to cut out the top and bottom pieces for 9 cupcakes.
3. Reduce the cupcake pattern 50%, and cut out pieces for 4 mini cupcakes for the corner blocks.
4. Create 9 blocks by fusing the cupcake pieces to the block backgrounds.
5. Sew the 11/4˝ × 6˝ sashing pieces between the blocks to create 3 rows. Press.
6. Sew the rows together with the 11/4˝ × 181/2˝ sashing strips. Press.
7. Sew a 11/4˝ × 181/2˝ strip on each side. Press.
8. Sew the 11/4 ˝ × 20˝ sashing strips on the top and bottom. Press.
9. Sew border strips to the top and bottom. Press.
10. Fuse the mini cupcakes to the corner blocks. Sew the corner blocks to each end of the remaining border strips. Press.
11. Sew the remaining border strips to the sides. Press.
12. Layer the backing, batting, and quilt top. Baste.
13. Quilt and bind. Embellish with trim and buttons.
quilt assembly diagram
This project is an excerpt from Cupcakes! edited by Lynn Koolish which includes 29 other yummy projects for sewers, quilters, knitters, and bakers!
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27 Comments
This must be a first. Goeswell with all the coffee cups.Are you out there Diane RodeSchneck?
I LOVE this pattern!!!
Fantastic! Thank you sooo much! I luv the cupcake patterns and quilts!
It's an adorable book – all the patterns are designed by C&T authors and staff!
I have to get this book. Thanks for the pattern! Who makes that cute cupcake fabric in the background? Is it still available?
Have you seen/heard the Quilted cupcake podcast and blog?
I have the book! :)
I think the little white cupcake print was from RJR Fabrics, and I don't see it on their site anymore, but if you do a web search, there's still a lot of cute cupcake fabric out there.
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this is really cute.. and the book cover is devilishly enticing!
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RT @ctpublishing: Happy Craft Month! Get a project a day every day this month on the blog! Heres the first one http://www.ctpubblog.com/2010/03/01/cupc...
Thank you. I want to make for grand daughter’s birthday. She will love.
Looks like it is going to be a busy March.Love the first project. Thanks guys.Happy days.
Bev
Love the quilt. Love the book. Love cupcakes.
Way cool. Thank you! I need to make a birthday gift soon, so this will be perfect!
SewCalGal
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So cute !!! Thank you
I found you on Khris’s Freebies blog. Thanks for providing this gorgeous pattern free of charge! I want to make some small easy quilts for my two Great-nieces, and these will fit the bill perfectly:-)
such a cute pattern, I have a little girl in mind. Thank you
Thank-you so much–I had just bought fabric printed with tea cups and needed another design to make more squares. The cups and cupcakes will look great together on my tablecloth and wall hanging. Thanks for the needed design idea. Roz
Thank you for the pattern. I want to make several of these for Project Linus . Do you know where I can get the small cup cake print? Thank you for your help. Is there a book that I can buy with some other cupcake quilts in it?
Hi Sandy
I’ve emailed Lynn Koolish to get any info she has about the cupcake print but she will be out of the office for awhile so it may take some time before I get a response to post here. There is an additional cupcake quilt project in the Cupcakes! book that this project came from, but beyond that I would try googling “cupcake quilt pattern” and see what comes up. Good luck!
Hi Sandy, the fabric you are interested in is Tea Party by Susan Branch from RJR Fabrics.
Beautiful quilt. Think I’ll just have a cupcake.