By Margaret Brewster Willingham

Luscious and lovely. An intoxicating beauty.

As the Fuchsia blossoms spill over in a profusion of blooms, may you have overflowing abundance.

The eighth block in the Victorian Flower Garden Quilt series (9 blocks in total) - Collect all 9 - 16" x 16" blocks and make a quilt. Look for the Victorian Flower Garden Quilt IV Expansion pattern coming in June 2016 - with an applique wrought iron gate to sash and border your lovely garden of flowers.

Bring a touch of Spring & Summer inside.

Fuchsia is a smaller-scale applique project - perfect for beginning quilters and appliquers.

Create this block and turn it into a pillow or make it as a block to fit into a quilt.

Pattern includes all three directions for creation.

• Reverse applique by hand
• Reverse applique by machine
• Mix applique and reverse applique for extra 3D effect: reverse applique the stems and leaves, then applique the flowers to make them really pop.

Materials required:

• background fabric: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in)
• top fabric: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in)
• backing (for pillow or wall-hanging versions): ½ yard (18 in x 18 in)
• 3-colour applique and reverse applique version: add fat quarter or scraps for blossoms
• batting: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in) [for blocks, this is not needed until you stitch the whole quilt together]
• for machine reverse applique: you will also need ½ yd (18 in x 18 in) of fusible webbing
• for pillow version: 16 in x 16 in pillow form