Go With The Flow Free Quilt Pattern by Natalie Crabtree
Go With The Flow uses bargello-style strip piecing to create a wave effect across a 48-by-60-inch quilt. Natalie Crabtree designed this intermediate project around the Color Me Windham Lavender Fields Fat Quarter Bundle. Seven identical strip sets are cut into units of different widths, then combined with individually cut rectangles in twenty-seven rows. The changing row widths and fabric positions create the movement, with a planned pressing sequence that helps the seams nest when the rows are joined.
About This Free Pattern
This free quilt pattern was designed by Natalie Crabtree for Windham Fabrics.
This project is marked intermediate and uses strip pieced.
The finished quilt measures 48.0 x 60.0.
Download the pattern to review the full cutting instructions, diagrams, and sewing steps before you begin.
Go With The Flow Free Quilt Pattern by Natalie Crabtree quilt pattern summary
- Cut the fat-quarter fabrics and background pieces, labeling and storing each individually cut rectangle with its assigned row number.
- Sew seven identical strip sets in the specified fabric order using precise quarter-inch seams. Leave the sets unpressed until the row-assembly pressing stage.
- Subcut the sets into the listed widths and assemble rows one through twenty-seven. Open the indicated seams and use the specified remnants where the row diagrams require them.
- Lay out the rows in numerical order, check the arrangement, press odd and even rows in opposite directions and join them with the seams aligned.
- Sandwich the top with batting and backing, baste and quilt as desired, then bind with the prepared fabric B strips.