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It Needs a Pop of Red

  • Quilt and Applique Patterns
  • by SleepingCatCreations
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It Needs a Pop of Red
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About It Needs a Pop of Red

If black and white is what you came for, start here — It Needs a Pop of Red is the plainest reading of that request on the Quilt and Applique Patterns shelf. Unreviewed so far — read that as untested rather than as a verdict. With 10 saves it has barely been seen, and that is neither a good nor a bad sign on a catalogue this size. SleepingCatCreations made it.

We would use it the way the listing hints — couch — and that is also where we would start if you are trying it for the first time. Look for a cutting diagram. Without one, the yardage in the pattern is an estimate and usually an optimistic one. Open it big before you commit. At thumbnail size every pattern on this shelf looks equally good, which is the problem with thumbnails.

The words on the listing are greyscale, pieced, quilt and red, and they are worth reading as a description rather than as tags. Related wording on the shelf: patchwork, mug rug, applique and block. Same shelf, different phrasing, and the sort options above work across all of it. On this site it lives on the Quilt and Applique Patterns shelf, so it also turns up for people browsing quilt and applique patterns rather than searching for it by name. Most of the traffic on this shelf comes in on quilt patterns, rag quilt, puff quilt and quilt block patterns free, and we picked the files on it with those requests in mind rather than by browsing prettiest-first.

It Needs a Pop of Red Specifications

Pattern nameIt Needs a Pop of Red
DesignerSleepingCatCreations
Pattern typeQuilt and Applique Patterns
FormatDigital download
RatingNot rated yet
ReviewsNone yet
Saved by10 makers on Creative Fabrica
Where to get itCreative Fabrica

How to use this pattern

  1. Download the files from Creative Fabrica and unzip them into one folder.
  2. Print the pattern sheets at 100% — no scaling, no «fit to page» — and check the test square with a ruler before you cut anything.
  3. Tape the sheets together on the printed match marks, then cut the pieces out and keep the instruction sheet next to your machine.
  4. Sew a quick version in cheap fabric first if the shape is new to you; the second one is always the one you keep.

Download Details

  • Format: Digital download
  • Files: listed on the Creative Fabrica page for this pattern
  • Licence: whichever licence Creative Fabrica shows for this file — check it there before you sell what you make
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Black And WhiteCouchGreyscalePiecedQuiltRed

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