Bouquet Quilt Block

Bouquet Quilt Block

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Skill level: easy

The Bouquet Quilt Block Pattern is a clean and simple block with a nice Sampler

A sampler is a quilt containing a ‘sampling’ of many different quilt block patterns. Quilters often make these as a way to expand their patchwork making skills. In years past, a young lady would make a sampler quilt before she was married or before she left home so that she could refer to it later for pattern ideas.
Samplers are still a popular way for modern quilters to stretch their quilt making muscles today.
” data-unique-btn-id=”19″ href=”https://scissortailquilting.com/glossary/__trashed/”>Sampler Quilt.” According to her, all the blocks in this book were in use by the 1920’s.

Laurie Aaron Hird's book "The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt"
Laurie Aaron Hird’s book “The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt”

Grouping Example

illustration of a group of bouquet quilt blocks

Block Construction

The block can be constructed in several ways. A traditional (and more difficult) way is to cut each of the four “flowers” as parallelograms, and sew the block using Y-seams.  However, if the block is divided into the 4×4 grid, it can be assembled rather simply with half square triangles.

Image of Exploded version of the Bouquet Quilt Block Pattern
Exploded version of the Bouquet Quilt Block

The trick to putting this girl together is to first sew the 4-patch square in the upper left corner. Next sew those “lonely” HSTs to the side of the adjacent HST, forming a parallelogram. It’s a little hard to explain in words, so here is a quick video that puts it all together for you:

There you have it! Here is the download link to the pattern:

Coloring Sheets

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