Echinacea Quilt Kit featuring AM loves HUE by Anna Maria Horner Parry

Find coordinating fabrics here. Anna Maria provides this background on the quilt and design. In 2013 I first designed my fabric called Echinacea, which was based on the beautiful Echinacea plant, or “coneflower”. This print has traveled with me through countless reprints and iterations for more than 10 years and I have been so pleased to watch quilters all over the globe enjoy incorporating this fabric into many different styles of quilts. While the birth of this Echinacea Quilt design came almost a decade later, I relied upon the same basic architecture of the flower to create an applique block that begins with a patchwork stem set into opposite points of a square. The charming stack up of the fower blocks connecting their stems on point creates a field of blooms as a worthwhile reward after sewing very many petals! This exclusive version of the Echinacea Quilt pattern featuring AM loves HUE fabrics simply shares the machine applique technique that we used to create the first draft of the quilt. Therefore the callouts and images of cutting and arranging are specific to the fabrics shown on the cover of the pattern and in the AM loves HUE collection.