Description

The Kitchen Sink is a versatile French braid style quilt pattern that uses differing values to create movement and energy. It’s a great stash buster, and includes detailed instructions and diagrams for piecing king size, queen size, twin size, and crib size versions. Coloring pages at the end of the pattern in each size allow you to experiment with color and value placement. The pattern was written for prints, but also works up beautifully in solids or tone-on-tone fabrics.

Finished sizes:
King: 104″ x 92″
Queen: 91″ x 92″
Twin: 65″ x 92″
Crib: 29″ x 58″

Story time:
When I was planning the original design (the cover quilt), I started with the fabric. A while back I ordered some Free Spirit fabric mystery boxes and there a few hits, but boy were there a lot of misses. For one reason or another, a lot of the prints just were not my particular jam, so they were relegated to the back of my cabinet. Every time I got one of them out, I decided not to use it. Finally fed up with that, I decided to get out all the prints I didn’t like, cut them up, and put them ALL in one big quilt. By golly, I was going to use that stuff up. It turns out all each of these prints needed was a little love and lot of neighbors. It turned into a quilt that I love so it became my debut pattern.