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Carolina Lily Tabletop Quilt: Pattern Size, Materials & Steps

A practical guide to the 13 × 17-inch Carolina Lily Tabletop Quilt, including its materials, pieced flower blocks, machine appliqué, borders and finish.

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The Carolina Lily Tabletop Quilt is a small American Patchwork & Quilting Editors’ project finished at 13 × 17 inches, with 5-inch-square blocks. It combines pieced lily flowers with machine-appliquéd stems and leaves, then frames the quilt center with pink and pieced blue-and-white borders.

Project size and pattern details

The pattern was published June 14, 2013. Its finished quilt measures 13 × 17 inches, and each finished block measures 5 inches square. Those are the pattern’s stated finished dimensions; cutting measurements include ¼-inch seam allowances.

This is a tabletop decor quilt, not a bed-size project. The instructions do not specify a difficulty rating, estimated completion time, cost, or required quilting design.

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Materials to gather

The pattern calls for assorted 100% cotton fabrics. It specifies a fat quarter for the tan blocks and center, plus fabric for the flowers, stems and leaves, borders, and binding. The full project material list also includes:

  • A fat-quarter piece of backing fabric
  • 18 × 22 inches of batting
  • Lightweight fusible web for the appliqué shapes
  • Thread and standard quilting supplies

The project page does not require a particular fabric brand. A quilting ruler can help with accurate cutting, and a sewing machine that makes a narrow zigzag or blind-hem stitch supports the stated appliqué finish.

How the Carolina Lily quilt is constructed

Prepare the appliqué and stems

Trace the appliqué shapes onto lightweight fusible web and prepare the stems as bias strips. The pattern’s documented approach uses fusible web to position the appliqué; using needle-turn or another method instead is a personal adaptation, not the method specified in these instructions.

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Piece the flower blocks

Make the flower units from Flying Geese and Four-Patch components, adding the tan background pieces as directed. Incorporate the stems into the blocks, then join the blocks with the tan center to form the quilt top’s central arrangement.

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Arrange and stitch the leaves and stems

Place the prepared stems and leaves across the quilt center, fuse them in position, and secure their edges with a narrow machine-zigzag or blind-hem stitch. The pattern combines piecing for the flowers with appliqué for the stems and leaves.

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Add borders and finish

Frame the center with an inner pink border, a pieced blue-and-white middle border, and an outer pink border. Layer the completed top with batting and backing, baste the layers, quilt as desired, and bind the edges. The pattern leaves the quilting design to the maker.

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How this project relates to the historic Carolina Lily pattern

The tabletop pattern draws on a quilt motif with a longer history, but it should not be confused with any particular museum quilt. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History dates its own Carolina Lily album quilt to 1840–1860 and notes that the pattern was popular in the mid-19th century. A separate North Carolina Lily quilt record at the Spencer Museum of Art dates its example to circa 1850–1900. Its label describes the Lily pattern as combining pieced flowers with appliquéd stems and leaves.

These collection records offer historical context; they do not establish that the 2013 tabletop project reproduces either museum object. The modern pattern is credited to the American Patchwork & Quilting Editors.

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