Tulip Cottage Fabric Collection

Tulip Cottage fabric by Melissa Mortenson for Riley Blake Designs is Coming in Early 2024. It is now available from Riley Blake Designs.

About the Fabric Line

My husband used to live in the Netherlands, and we’ve been lucky enough to visit several times in recent years. On our last trip, we were riding the train through the Dutch countryside when I looked out the window and saw the most idyllic farm. A bright white farmhouse with green shutters and roof and a speckling of black and white cows grazing in the pasture.

stacks of folded tulip cottage fabric on table

With that beautiful farm in my mind, I began sketching this fabric collection. Along with the farm, I drew inspiration from our collection of antique Delft tiles and, of course, the famous Dutch Tulip fields.

I also threw in a few personal touches, such as my husband’s vintage Land Rover, our family dog, and cows from my in-law’s farm here in Kentucky.

Projects

Gathered Precuts Quilt

The Gathered Precuts quilt is created with one 10″ precut stack of fabric and one Tulip Cottage fabric panel. If you want to include this fabric in a kit (only if the kit contains Tulip Cottage fabric), you can print the pattern below and make copies.

Pink, green and blue quilt made using rectangles of fabric.

Gathered Precuts Quilt Pattern; Tulip Cottage Fabrics

This quilt pattern offers you a unique way to use the Tulip Cottage fabric quilt panel (sometimes called a cheater panel) and a 10" precut stack of fabric. It's fast to sew and is a great quilt for beginners.

Author Melissa Mortenson

Equipment

Supplies

1 package 10” x 10” precut pack of fabric With at least 42 pieces. Fabric in the example quilt is Tulip Cottage by Riley Blake designs.
1 Tulip Cottage Quilt panel OR 3/8 yard of extra fabric.
½ yard fabric for Binding
2 yards 58-60" wide Minky Backing Fabric You can also use 4 yards of quilting cotton.

Instructions

Pattern Notes

Quilt Size: 54” x 62”

Step One: Cut Up the Panel & Sort the Fabrics

Decide which portions of your quilt panel you want to use for the quilt top. The large squares are 9 1/2" x 9 1/2”, and the smaller rectangles are 5” x 9 ½”.
Sort your precut stack into piles.
In one pile, place the prints you’d like to use for the larger squares (you'll need 8 larger squares), and in another pile, the ones you will cut into rectangles (you'll need 31 precut squares).
From the stack of precut pieces cut:
62 pieces 5” x 9 ½” (note: if you are cutting all of these from precuts, you’ll need 31 precuts).
8 pieces 9 ½” x 9 ½”
From the fabric panel cut:
4 pieces 9 1/2" x 9 1/2" (these are cut from the Flower Girl, All the Things, Oh Hello & Flower Market portions of the panel)
4 pieces 5" x 9 1/2" (these are cut from the smaller rectangles on the panel).

Step Two: Sew

This quilt is constructed by columns. Each column contains eleven 5” x 9 ½” pieces and two 9 ½” x 9 ½” pieces.
Refer to the layout diagram for the exact placement of pieces in each column. The gray squares on the diagram represent the 9 1/2" squares of fabric.
Some precut stacks contain many of identical prints or use the same colors repeatedly, while others have a wider variety.
For this reason, I recommend laying out your pieces on a design wall or the floor before sewing to ensure a balanced placement of print and color in your final quilt designs.
Sew the pieces in column one together. Repeated by columns 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.
After you have the pieces sewn together, press your seams.
Sew the columns to each other.

Notes

TIP:
Take the time at the beginning to sort and plan out your quilt. If you are using a panel, I recommend that you plan around the panel. After you know how many 9 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ and 5″ x 9 1/2″ pieces you can cut from your panel, you will know how many pieces of your precut pack you need to use.