Blossie Basket - Craftapalooza Designs

Blossie Basket - Craftapalooza Designs

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Meet Blossie - the little basket that blossoms

Some sewing projects are all hustle; others feel like a warm cup of tea. Blossie Basket sits firmly in the second camp. Seven quilt-as-you-go (QAYG) hexagons are all it takes to bloom from a flat object into a sturdy scrappy bowl that corrals threads, Wonder Clips or even a cheeky stash of chocolates. Add the optional lid with its felt needle-keeper and button-and-loop closure, and you've got a travel-ready sewing caddy that stacks neatly with its sisters on the shelf.

Blossie Basket is a soft vessel. She will be squishy and flat when empty and that is ok! When she is full of stuff you can stack Blossie's on top of each other.

Why QAYG?

Traditional bowls made from fabric strips can be fiddly, but Blossie's QAY method means you:

• Quilt on one palm-sized block at a time.
• Get the soft-and-squishy hand-quilted texture, without hours of binding at the end.
• Enjoy an "instant-finish buzz": each hexie is completely quilted and bound before you join them.

Scrap lovers, rejoice: the biggest fabric piece you need is smaller than a notebook, so raid that "too pretty to toss" basket!

Put a lid on it (or not)

Does Blossie needs a lid. If you vote "yes," here's the secret sauce:

• Fuse a flower motif to the lid hexie before 

quilting for a sweet focal point.

• Stitch an elastic loop to the back, covering the knot with a felt hexagon that doubles as a needle-keeper.
• Ladder-stitch the finished lid to one rim edge and add a button on the opposite side. Close and secure!

Prefer an open bowl? Skip the lid and show off your colourful inner hexagon instead. Instructions included in the pattern!

Customise your Blossie

• Vintage linens: Offcuts of vintage linens or embroideries can become nostalgic qayg hexagons.
• Monochrome magic: Black-and-white stripes outside, neon quilting thread inside.
• Theme it: Halloween prints + orange hand

quilting = spooky-cute candy dish.

• Stack 'em: Sew three bowls in graduating sizes (simply scale the templates in your printer settings) and nest them like Russian dolls.

1 PAPER PATTERN Includes Quilt As You Go Templates