Riley Blake Butterfly Garden - Pink - Downloadable PDF

Riley Blake Butterfly Garden Quilt Pattern – Free Downloadable PDF by Zoe Pearn

The Riley Blake Butterfly Garden is a charming, free downloadable PDF quilt pattern designed by Zoe Pearn for Riley Blake Designs. This pattern produces a finished quilt measuring 62" x 74", making it a generous lap or throw size that is perfect for showcasing the whimsical, nature-inspired prints of the Butterfly Garden fabric collection. The design is built around a repeating 10" x 10" finished block set together with sashing and posts, creating a structured, classic quilt layout with a fresh, playful feel.

About the Design

The Butterfly Garden quilt features a block-based construction where each individual block is assembled from a variety of assorted prints drawn from the Garden Girl Fat Quarter Bundle (FQ-5660-18). Because each block uses a unique combination of fabrics, the overall quilt has a scrappy, lively appearance even within a consistent structural framework. The blocks are separated by sashing rectangles and corner posts, which add visual organization and allow the eye to move across the quilt in a rhythmic, orderly way. The pattern notes that the layout and look of your finished project may differ from the virtual quilt diagram depending on your specific fabric placement choices, encouraging a degree of creative freedom.

What Is Being Made

• Project type: Patchwork quilt
• Finished size: 62" x 74"
• Finished block size: 10" x 10"
• Format: Free downloadable PDF pattern
• Designer: Zoe Pearn for Riley Blake Designs

Techniques Used

This pattern requires a basic knowledge of quilting technique and terminology, making it accessible to confident beginners and enjoyable for intermediate quilters. Key construction techniques include:

• Half Square Triangles (HSTs): A foundational quilting technique used extensively throughout the blocks. Cloud solid 3" squares are paired with butterfly print squares, a diagonal line is drawn on the wrong side, and the units are sewn ¼" on each side of the drawn line before cutting on the line to yield two HSTs per pair. Each HST is then squared up to 2½" for accuracy.
• Half Square Triangle units from larger squares: 4⅞" squares are cut once diagonally to create large setting triangles used within the block construction.
• Small triangle units: 2⅞" squares are cut once diagonally to create 160 small triangles from the cloud solid fabric, used as additional block components.
• Sashing and posts: The blocks are joined using 2½" x 10½" sashing rectangles cut from cloud solid fabric and 2½" x 2½" corner posts cut from pink damask fabric, a classic quilt assembly method that frames each block neatly.
• Pressing and squaring up: Careful pressing and squaring of HST units to 2½" is emphasized to ensure accurate piecing throughout.
• Right sides together construction: All seams are sewn with right sides together unless otherwise stated, following standard quilting convention.

Stitches and Seam Allowances

All piecing is worked with a consistent ¼" seam allowance, which is the standard for quilting and is critical to achieving the correct finished block and quilt dimensions. The pattern advises quilters to measure through the center of the quilt before cutting border pieces, a best practice that accounts for any slight variations in piecing and ensures a flat, square finished quilt.

Materials and Fabric Requirements

The Butterfly Garden quilt is designed specifically around the Riley Blake Designs Butterfly Garden fabric collection. The required materials include:

• 1 Garden Girl Fat Quarter Bundle (FQ-5660-18) – an 18-piece fat quarter bundle providing the assorted prints used throughout the blocks, including prints such as mint main, pink main, mint butterfly, pink butterfly, and raspberry butterfly, among others
• 1½ yards (1.4 m) of pink main (C5660 Pink)