Meet Fleur Drive. It's got a sweet sophistication that'll add a touch of class to your next quilt top.
The scalloped bottom edge of the motif has a beautiful way of integrating into the row below. One man's ceiling is another man's floor, as Paul Simon would say.
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The stitching is simple and straight-forward. It does require every other row to be offset or staggered.
Here are my specifics using a baby-sized sample in the photos (45" x 50" quilt size):
Row height: 3"
Gap: -1.225"
Pattern height: 4.225" (distance from the top to bottom of the repeat)
Offset: 50%
I use an Intellquilter as my computer system, so your terms might differ. I can tell you I started with a pattern height at nearly 5" and it was too large of a scale for my taste... so I ripped out the first row and started again. Part of that might have been due to the scale in relation to this smallish quilt.
There's no backtracking with this design. It does require a 50% offset, or staggering every other row.
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