BLOCK OF THE MONTH

Paper piece a selection of the sweetest shopping bags you ever did see!

FPP Susi Bellingham’s colourful shopping bag blocks in Row Three of our Farmers Market Sewalong!

■ Templates include seam allowance around the outer edges only.

■ For templates, see p90.

■ Refer to Susi’s FPP tutorial on p94–95 of LP&Q issue 52, or find it online www.lovepatchandquilting.com/tutorials

■ Fabric supplied by Fat Quarter Shop.

FABRICS USED

■ Print fabrics are from collections by Heather Ross for Windham Fabrics.

■ Background fabric is Sprinkle in Jelly Bracelet from the Basics collection by

Cotton+Steel.

CUTTING OUT

1 Using the template as a guide, cut the fabric pieces for each section of the FPP template, making sure the pieces will be at least ¼in larger than the section they will cover, all the way around.

PIECING THE ROW

2 Repeat steps 1–7 of our FPP tutorial to piece each of the six (6) Bag Handle FPP templates. Sew the fabrics in place in numerical order.