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Carolina Lily quilt along with Fat Quarter Shop

Hey everyone! Welcome to my stop on the Carolina Lily Quilt Along taking place at Fat Quarter Shop!

Update March 10, 2020: Fat Quarter Shop had to postpone the release of their pattern and quilt along. I wasn’t notified until after publishing this blog post. My apologies. I’ll update all of the links here once they’re working properly. Thanks for your patience.

Update March 24, 2020: All links have been updated.

If you need a little Spring in your life, you’ll love this happy quilt block.

Welcome to The Crafty Quilter and my stop on the Carolina Lily Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop.

Carolina Lily Quilt Block

The Carolina Lily block is a free quilt block pattern from Fat Quarter Shop that is part of their Classic & Vintage Series. They also have a Carolina Lily Quilt pattern available here that includes instructions for a full quilt with fabric requirements, etc. for purchase.

Welcome to The Crafty Quilter and my stop on the Carolina Lily Quilt Along with Fat Quarter Shop.

I love this version of the classic Carolina Lily block and it was super fun to make. The block is 14 1/2″ square (unfinished) and it’s pieced with a little bit of applique for the stems. I used some of my favorite colors and fabrics from my stash: the flower contains Spotted by Zen Chic for Moda in Tea Rose and Essential Dots by Moda in Peony; the stems contain Strawberry Jam by Corey Yoder for Moda in Seedling Canning Day and Seedling Plus. The background fabric is Painter’s Canvas by Michael Miller Fabrics.

The Carolina Lily Quilt Block is a free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop for their Classic & Vintage Series.  This one is made by Julie Cefalu at The Crafty Quilter.

Carolina Lily block tips

As always, I like to pass along a few helpful tips that worked for me while making this block. The piecing is straight forward, but you need to pay attention when joining the diagonal seams together for the lily and stem sections. I pinned these together right where the diagonal seams cross each other at the 1/4″ seam allowance and then machine basted (stitch length 4.0) just at the intersection. Then I checked to see if it lined up. Once I was sure it was good, I stitched the complete seam at my normal stitch length of 2.0.

Diagonal seams line up perfectly for one section of the Carolina Lily Block.  Designed by Fat Quarter Shop and made by Julie Cefalu @ The Crafty Quilter.

The stems for the Carolina Lily were made with a Clover 1/2″ bias tape maker (my favorite way to make bias vines and stems). This creates a stem that has both long edges folded under and on the bias so that it’s easy to curve naturally.

I wanted my stems to have a folded point at the top of each one, so I folded one side and then the other over at a 45 degree angle and added a little glue to hold it in place. Then I snipped off the excess “tail”.

Once my vines were made, I glued them in place with Roxanne’s Glue Baste It. Then I stitched them in place, invisibly, using clear monofilament thread (Monopoly by Superior Threads) and a tiny blanket stitch. The settings on my Babylock Crescendo are 1.0 stitch width and 1.8 stitch length; I’m using a size 70/10 Microtex Sharp needle. You can see the holes left by the needle, but you can’t see the thread or the stitch. Once this block is basted and quilted, the holes will become very faint and you’ll think it was appliqued by hand. Objective achieved!

The Carolina Lily quilt block designed by Fat Quarter Shop and made by Julie Cefalu - shows the invisible machine applique detail.

I love this technique and you can check out my Round Up of Turned Edge Applique Techniques to see more ways to achieve this (including one of mine).

The Carolina Lily quilt block is a classic and one that I’ve admired from afar. Now I have one that I can make into a pillow or add to a sampler quilt. Maybe I’ll make a quilt full of them, we’ll see!

The Carolina Lily Quilt Block is a free block pattern from Fat Quarter Shop that measures 14 1/2" square.  This one is made by Julie Cefalu at The Crafty Quilter.

Thanks for joining me for my stop on the Carolina Lily Quilt Along at Fat Quarter Shop. Make sure to visit their blog, the Jolly Jabber, and see the other versions of the Carolina Lily block. And always check out their daily Flash Sale for some great deals on fabric and notions!

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13 Comments

  1. I’ve become obsessed with the idea of using a Carolina Lily as a stash buster for my collection of pinks. What do you think?

  2. Good Morning! What a sweet block! Your fabric choices are feminine without being cloyingly over the top. Beautiful! It seems it might be a simpler piecing technique which I thought I’d try. However, I feel I’m being teased. I just cannot find this block. I’ve followed all your links. The first one is broken. The rest lead me to the Jolly Jabber site, but nowhere do I find this Carolina Lily block. Must I page through 11 pages of blocks to find it? Is this something you must join and that is why I cannot find it? Thank you so much for your help!

    1. My apologies Robin, but Fat Quarter Shop had to delay the release of the pattern and didn’t let me know until after I had published my blog post. I’ll update as soon as it’s available.

  3. I have looked for the Carolina lily pattern at Fat Quarter Shop, but all I can find is the kit that isn’t available yet. Am I missing something? Your block looks beautiful!

    1. Unfortunately, Fat Quarter Shop has not posted their Carolina Lily pattern on the date that they said because of an issue with fabric for kits I believe. I’m sorry for the inconvenience and will update when it’s available.

  4. Beautiful! Great fabric choices- you are such an inspiration to me! Thank you for sharing this gorgeous Carolina Lily and for keeping the Vintage patterns alive.

  5. Julie, your Carolina Lily block is beautiful. Wonderful choice of fabrics. Make a whole quilt, it will be cherished!

  6. Julie, isn’t that such a beautiful block? I’ve also admired it for many years. Your rendition is lovely!
    For some reason I can’t find it though. It keeps saying “page not found”.

  7. I, too, am unable to locate the free pattern for this block. The FQS’s newest charity QAL, Bloomtopia, has a very similar block, also called Carolina Lily, but without any applique. Do you think they removed the link to the Classic & Vintage free block to avoid confusion?

  8. This is so pretty. I love the fabrics you used. Nope I didnt find it on their site. Must be me.
    Thanks for sharing today.

  9. Great hints for construction, but I am unable to find the free quilt block to practice on. The large quilt kit is backordered. Would you be able to post an exact link? I like to baste important connections like you do because ripping out is minimized!

  10. Lovely, just lovely!!. You are such a generous person with a very big heart. Thank-you!! I think all of your creative juices are in spring mode. Your fabric choices are always perfect!

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