Riley Blake Forest Friends - Downloadable PDF

Riley Blake Forest Friends Quilt Pattern by Doohikey Designs – Free Downloadable PDF Summary

About This Quilt Pattern

The Riley Blake Forest Friends quilt pattern, designed by Doohikey Designs, is a charming and intricate quilted throw that finishes at a generous 57" x 57". This is a downloadable PDF pattern available completely free, making it an accessible project for quilters who are ready to take on a more complex design. Rated as advanced difficulty, this pattern rewards experienced quilters with a beautifully detailed finished piece featuring whimsical forest-themed blocks.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a square quilted throw or lap blanket measuring 57 inches by 57 inches. The quilt is built from 9" x 9" finished blocks, each carefully pieced together using triangles and precise placement to create a cohesive forest-themed design. The overall layout features a variety of block styles, with the Hoo's Block being one of the primary repeating units — a total of 16 Hoo's Blocks are constructed for the quilt. The finished quilt is ideal as a decorative throw, a cozy lap quilt, or a statement piece for a nursery or nature-inspired room.

Techniques Used

• Half-square triangle (HST) construction – The Hoo's Blocks are built by sewing clean white triangles to printed fabric triangles to create four sections, which are then joined to form the block center. This is a classic quilting technique requiring accuracy for crisp, sharp points.
• Triangle piecing – Corner triangles in yellow mini dots fabric are added to each corner of the Hoo's Block, with careful attention to placement based on the quilt photo to determine whether the yellow mini dots fall on the white or printed fabric corners.
• Block assembly and quilt layout – Blocks are arranged and sewn together with reference to the quilt photo for precise placement, a common advanced quilting technique that ensures the overall pattern reads correctly across the finished top.
• Precise seam allowances – All measurements include a standard ¼" seam allowance, and all pieces are sewn with right sides together unless otherwise stated — fundamental quilting construction practices that are especially important at the advanced level.
• Pattern revision checking – Doohikey Designs recommends checking the Riley Blake Designs website (rileyblakedesigns.com) for any revisions before beginning, a best practice for working with downloadable PDF patterns.

Stitches and Construction Methods

• Straight stitch piecing – All quilt block construction uses straight-stitch sewing, standard for quilting on a domestic or longarm sewing machine.
• Right-sides-together sewing – The pattern specifies sewing with right sides together throughout, ensuring clean seams and a polished finish on the quilt top.

Materials – Fabric Requirements

This pattern is designed specifically for Riley Blake Designs fabric collections, with precise yardage requirements for each colorway. The fabrics referenced include:

• ¼ yard of C2560 Blue (main fabric)
• 2 yards of C2560 Yellow (main fabric – the largest single yardage requirement, used extensively including for the yellow mini dots corner triangles)
• ¾ yard of C2561 Pink (trees print)
• ¼ yard of C2561 White (trees print)
• ¼ yard of C2562 Pink (fruit print)
• ¼ yard of C2562 White (fruit print)
• Additional C2562 fabric (further colorway details referenced in the full PDF)
• Clean white fabric is also used throughout for triangle piecing within the Hoo's Blocks

As with all quilting projects, you will also need standard quilting supplies including a rotary cutter, cutting mat, quilting ruler, sewing machine,