Stash Bee: Hive 5 - May Tutorial - Tulip Block for Alanna

As you may know, I just had a baby girl!

On principle, I don't believe in gendered colours or imagery (my son can wear clothes that are pink and have flowers too), but the reality is I am so excited by all the "girlie" stuff, especially all things floral!

My sister is also due with a baby girl in May. And apparently it's also spring time (though it is hard to tell up here in Northern British Columbia- we had fresh snow this week!). So I was inspired to make a bright, girlie, spring-time, floral quilt.

So for this month's block, I am requesting a Pink or Yellow Tulip block!

Pattern Credits:

I have written up the tutorial for 1 tulip block, based on a combination of two very similar free patterns:

Missouri star quilt co’s “Totally Tulip” quilt pattern.

Here is their video tutorial - she makes 1 block but the cutting information is based on making the whole quilt so I adjusted the cutting instructions for 1 block.

https://www.missouriquiltco.com/pages/totally-tulips-quilt-tutorial?epik=dj0yJnU9QlpUOFIzQmZIQXE4V2VaZjdXWDJtSkZOcWVGbFJ2Rk8mcD0wJm49UUE0VHJlOWJKSzVNSzRRY19wbGVsZyZ0PUFBQUFBR0pyQUdj

2) Cloud 9’s “Amsterdam” quilt pattern.

https://cloud9fabrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AmsterdamQuilt.pdf

Fabric:

For this block you will need 6 different fabrics- 3 for the tulip "petals"; 2 for the stem and leaves; and a background. See the table for the colours needed.

Please choose modern, bright fabrics. No muted tones

Background

(please use the same fabric for the whole block)

1 White fabric

Solid; or white on white print; or low volume grey or black print on white

Please no creams or prints with other colours

Tulip Petals

(3 different fabrics)

3 different fabrics in light to medium Pink or Yellow, or a combination

For yellow, think more sunshine than mustard
For pink, avoid dark/magenta pink, or pinks that lean purplish
Solids, tone on tone prints, or other prints as long as the predominant colour reads as pink or yellow

Whimsical or novelty prints are okay as long as it is not licensed characters (ie pink dinosaurs are okay, but Minnie Mouse is not)

Leaves

(please use the same fabric for both leaves)

1 Light to medium Green fabric

Solids, tone on tone prints, or other prints as long as the predominant colour reads as green

Stem

Gray

solids, tone on tone prints

Here are some photos of my fabric pull from my own stash:

Cutting:

Note, I have provided cutting instructions for the leaves based on the 2 at a time HST method. You will have to adjust the cutting dimensions if you want to do the 4 at a time method (if you make two blocks, you could also do the 8 at a time method).

Tulip Petal portion	Petal fabric (Pink or Yellow or Combination)	2 x 5” squares (each is a different fabric) 1 x 5” x 9.5” rectangle
	Background Fabric (White)	4 x 2.5” squares
Stem & Leaf portion	Background Fabric (White) Please use same background as tulip portion	2 x 5” squares (same fabric as background in tulip portion)
	Leaf Fabric (Green) Please use same fabric for both leaves	2 x 5” squares (same fabric for both squares)
	Stem (Gray)	1.5” x 8.5”

Sewing:

Tulip petal portion:

Sew a “snowball” corner to each of the two 5” pink/yellow squares:

Finger press your 2.5” background squares on the diagonal.
Place the 2.5” background square right sides together in the corner of the pink/yellow square
Sew along the finger-pressed diagonal line going
Trim ¼” from the sewn line
Press towards the pink/yellow

Note: If you are using directional fabric, pay attention to which corner you are “snow-balling”, based on the arrangement in which you intend to sew two yellow/pink squares together

Sew two “snowball” corners to the bottom of the pink/yellow rectangle

Finger press your 2.5” background squares on the diagonal.
Place the 2.5” background square right sides together on each of the bottom corners of the pink/yellow rectangle
Sew along the finger-pressed diagonal line going
Trim ¼” from the sewn line
Press towards the pink/yellow

Assemble the tulip, and sew together

Sew together the top two squares so the snowball corners touch together on the inside; press open
Sew the top unit to the bottom rectangle
Press the last seam open, or towards the rectangle

Lead & Stem portion:

Make 4 HSTs using the Traditional (2 HSTs at a time) method:

Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of each of the 5” background squares
Place one 5” background square on top of one 5” green square, right sides together
Sew ¼” away from either side of the diagonal line
Cut along the drawn diagonal line
Open up the HST units and press towards the green
Trim the HSTs to 4.5” square
Repeat with the other set to make four green/white HSTs total