I have really started getting more and more into gardening in the last few years. We have lived in this home for 4.5 years and the gardens were dismal when we moved in. With the addition of a new driveway and patio, and more time with older kids who play independently or with neighbors I have been spending loads of time in the garden. You can follow along with that in my Instagram stories.

One of my gardening goals is to have an area filled with Echinacea flowers, also known as Coneflower. I just love Echinacea and love cutting flowers so in my unsuccessful quest to have a real “field” of Echinacea I made a quilt block to satisfy that longing until I can figure out what I am doing wrong in the garden. Get your pattern here.

This pattern is traditionally pieced. The pattern includes printable templates for the petals, along with a full cut list of all the other pieces. It uses the half square triangle piecing method in a few spots, but other than that is pieced with a scant 1/4″ seam. Instructions include construction of block with several variations. The bud or cone can be a solid piece or pieced with two fabrics to give an ombre look. The leaves can be altered so they are even on both sides or off set with one side being higher than the other. The cutting and sewing instructions give you all the options to make this block come together quickly.

I had a handful of enthusiastic pattern testers and you can check out all the adorable blocks on Instagram under the hashtag #echinaceafieldquiltblock I can not wait for that hashtag to be like a real field of Echinacea with thousands of flower blocks hanging out together.

I hope you will love this pattern as much as I do! It has so much versatility. Make the background scrappy or all one fabric, change the color of the background. I had one tester, Dana, make hers with a dark blue background. Another tester, Faith, made her bottom piece green so it looked like grass. So much fun. You can have all the petals match or be scrappy, and the same with the leaves and stem. So many options.

I plan on making a quilt of these blocks. This is the mock up I came up with. 20 blocks total. I planned it out with ombre colors. So as I’m making blocks I am making different colors variations and once I have 10-12 blocks I will lay it out and see where I need to fill it in. This amount of blocks would produce a 60″ wide x 72″ quilt which is a great throw size.

Because this is just a quilt block pattern it is easily made into a mini quilt or with additional borders on the sides could be made into a pillow. You could also line a view top to bottom for a table runner.

I am planning on hosting a Sew Along for this quilt block in July. I will have sign ups for that soon. We will sew along together and whatever we decide to make it will be a fun time with some tips and tricks I use to make sewing fast and fun.

The Pattern is available in my Etsy Shop as of Today, June 12th 2019.

I hope you love this block and sew a whole field for yourself or everyone!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!