Windham Fabrics Three Kings - Downloadable PDF

Three Kings Quilt Pattern by Heidi Pridemore for Windham Fabrics – Pattern Summary

The Three Kings is a downloadable PDF quilt pattern designed by Heidi Pridemore of The Whimsical Workshop, created exclusively to showcase the Three Kings fabric collection by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics. This advanced-level quilting project produces a stunning 54" x 62" throw quilt — a generous size that works beautifully as a lap quilt, decorative throw, or statement bed accent for a child's room or seasonal display.

Rated as an advanced difficulty project, this pattern is best suited to quilters who are comfortable with precise fabric cutting, careful color placement, and assembling multi-fabric quilt tops. The rich, jewel-toned palette — featuring amethyst, gold, mustard, ruby, emerald, and sapphire — lends the finished quilt a regal, stained-glass quality that rewards the extra attention to detail that advanced construction demands.

What Is Being Made

This pattern produces a pieced throw quilt measuring 54 inches by 62 inches. The design is built around a large decorative panel fabric (42859DP – X Multi), which serves as the visual centerpiece of the quilt. Surrounding pieced blocks and borders frame the panel, creating a structured, medallion-style or panel-focused layout that highlights the artwork of the Three Kings collection. The overall effect is bold and graphic, with the jewel-toned supporting fabrics amplifying the richness of the central panel imagery.

Quilting Techniques Used

• Panel quilting: Incorporating a pre-printed fabric panel (42859DP – X Multi) as a focal element, requiring careful centering and framing with coordinating pieced sections.
• Precision piecing: Assembling multiple fabric cuts from nine distinct fabrics into a cohesive quilt top, demanding accurate seam allowances and careful pressing throughout.
• Color-blocked construction: Strategic placement of jewel-toned fabrics — ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst, gold, and mustard — to create visual depth and harmony around the central panel.
• Quilt sandwiching and finishing: Layering the quilt top with batting and a backing fabric (50352-1 Sapphire, requiring 3½ yards), then quilting and binding to complete the project.

Fabrics and Materials

This is a fabric-based quilting pattern — no yarn, knitting needles, or crochet hooks are required. All materials are quilting cotton fabrics from the Windham Fabrics Three Kings collection by Whistler Studios. The full fabric requirements are as follows:

• 1 panel – 42859DP – X Multi (Fabric A) — the decorative centerpiece panel
• 1⅛ yards – 50352-2 Amethyst (Fabric B)
• ¼ yard – 50353-5 Gold (Fabric C)
• ½ yard – 37098-6 Mustard (Fabric D)
• ⅝ yard – 50355M-3 Ruby (Fabric E)
• ⅝ yard – 50353M-4 Emerald (Fabric F)
• 1⅔ yards – 50354-1 Sapphire (Fabric G)
• ½ yard – 50354-2 Amethyst (Fabric H)
• 3½ yards – 50352-1 Sapphire — used for the quilt backing

In addition to these fabrics, quilters will need standard quilting supplies including a rotary cutter, cutting mat, quilting ruler, sewing machine, coordinating thread, batting, and binding fabric. Windham Fabrics recommends checking the Free Project section at windhamfabrics.