Picture yourself as a child in your grandma's kitchen, right before a family feast -- all the glorious clutter, bustle, and the big shiny bowls. Our Grandma's Bowls quilted wall hanging pattern is evocative of such a memory. Made up of variations on the Grandma's Bowls quilt block, the wall hanging will remind you of those days for years to come. To make the wall hanging, download the two-page Grandma's Bowls Quilted Wall Hanging pattern as a PDF and print it out. Be sure to enlarge the quilt blocks at 125%.

Use the Grandma's Bowls quilt block to make the wall hanging.
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The Grandma's Bowls Quilted Wall Hanging uses the Grandma's Bowls quilt block.

To make the Grandma's Bowls Quilted Wall Hanging:

Make 9 blocks: Make 3 blocks with all bowls and 6 blocks with only 1 or 2 bowls. Stitch blocks together in 3 rows of 3 blocks. Add block strips as sashing and blocks border. Finished size is about 35 inches square.

To make the Grandma's Bowls quilt block:

The Grandma's Bowls quilt block is from the Country Cupboards quilt design.
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The Grandma's Bowls quilt block is part of the Country Cupboard quilt design.

Cut:

Background: Cut 1. All appliqué pieces: Fuse double-sided webbing to fabrics, then cut out. Dots on bottom bowl: Cut 10 or 11. All other pieces: Cut 1 each. (Do not add seam allowances to fused pieces.)

Use contrasting fabrics on this quilt block for a fun effect.
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You can use very different fabrics for the bowls
in the Grandma's Bowls quilt block.

Stitch:

Fuse pieces to background square. By hand or machine, appliqué all fused pieces using narrow blanket stitch. Make French knots in stripe of top bowl using 2 strands of embroidery floss (marked by X's on pattern).

Use similar colors for the bowls to make a matched set.
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Or you can use prints in the same color families for a mix-and-match effect.

To finish the quilt, select the sashing and borders from the Quilt Borders page.

If you like this quilt block, check out the others that are part of the Country Cupboard quilt design. Enjoyed this project? See our other Quilted Kitchen Wall Hanging Patterns.

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ABOUT THE QUILT DESIGNER:

Retta Warehime is the author of Snuggle Up, Patchwork Memories, Quilting Your Just Desserts, Farm House Quilts, and many other titles. She has taught piecing and quilting techniques for 24 years and has been designing and publishing quilt patterns for 18 years through her company, Sew Cherished. Warehime has published more than 200 quilt designs and is currently designing and publishing quilts for fabric company Web sites.