The Gossamer Wings pattern is available in the Flying Parrot Quilts pattern shop.
Since the original Gossamer Wings dragonfly mini quilt was made as part of a swap, I needed to make another one to hang in my Quilt Market booth. This time I went with solids!
Gossamer Wings is a paper piecing pattern; I do recommend that you have some paper piecing experience as it doesn’t include full paper piecing instructions. (You can download a tutorial on paper piecing from this page.) Because it has lots of pieces, of course you can customize it to whatever color palette you like! Rainbow is my favorite color, of course, so I had to go with that, but I can imagine lots of other cool color schemes. I used a mix of solid scraps for the wings; the dragonfly body and eyes and the binding of the quilt are a sparkly Essex linen that doesn’t show up very well in the pictures, but it gives a nice sparkly touch to the mini.
This is the large size, which finishes at 18″ square, but the pattern does include two additional smaller sizes, at 12″ and 9″. The PDF version includes all three sizes; if you prefer a paper pattern you’ll get templates for the large size and a download code so you can download additional sizes.
I quilted the mini pretty simply—just ditch stitching with a monofilament thread around the dragonfly and along all the colored bits, and then a swirly free-motion design in the background. Since the piecing is fairly complex, I didn’t really want to divert attention from that with the quilting.
Gossamer Wings is available in both PDF and paper pattern format!
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