Blossie Basket PDF Pattern - Merry Little Christmas

Meet Blossie – the little basket that blossoms

Blossie Basket is a slow-stitch delight. Sew seven QAYG hexagons and watch them bloom into a sweet, scrappy bowl for threads, quilt clips, or chocolates - pop Christmas or Halloween candy in them! Put on the optional lid with felt needle-keeper and button-loop closure for a travel-ready caddy that stacks beautifully.

Read more about Blossie on this blog post.

Why QAYG?

Traditional bowls made from fabric strips can be fiddly, but Blossie’s QAYG method means you:

• Quilt on one palm-sized block at a time.
• Get the soft-and-squishy hand-quilted texture Nic loves, without hours of binding at the end.
• Enjoy an “instant-finish buzz”: each hexie is completely quilted and bound before you join them.

Scrap lovers, rejoice: the biggest fabric piece you need is smaller than a notebook, so raid that “too pretty to toss” basket!

Put a lid on it (or not)

Does Blossie needs a lid. If you vote “yes,” here’s the secret sauce:

• Fuse a flower motif to the lid hexie before quilting for a sweet focal point.
• Stitch an elastic loop to the back, covering the knot with a felt hexagon that doubles as a needle-keeper.
• Ladder-stitch the finished lid to one rim edge and add a button on the opposite side. Close and secure!

Prefer an open bowl? Skip the lid and show off your colourful inner hexagon instead. Instructions included in the pattern!

Customise your Blossie

• Vintage linens: Offcuts of vintage linens or embroideries can become nostalgic qayg hexagons.
• Monochrome magic: Black-and-white stripes outside, neon quilting thread inside.
• Theme it: Halloween prints + orange hand quilting = spooky-cute candy dish.
• Stack ’em: Sew three bowls in graduating sizes (simply scale the templates in your printer settings) and nest them like Russian dolls.

Skill seeds you’ll sow

Blossie may be bite-sized, but she teaches a bouquet of techniques: slip-stitch binding, hand quilting, precise ladder-stitching, and optional fusible appliqué or yo-yo making. That’s a lot of crafty mileage from one afternoon project!

Ready to blossom?

The Blossie Basket PDF pages photo-rich instructions, full-size templates (no maths!), lid add-on, and troubleshooting tips. Print, cut, and start stitching tonight, in a couple of days your sewing table will literally bloom with handmade storage. Grab the pattern, raid your scrap bin, and share your progress, I can’t wait to see your Blossies bloom!

The Blossie PDF and acrylic template set includes the full pdf pattern (including printable templates) and an acrylic template set that will be posted separately.

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