Eucalyptus Dancing Quilt Pattern

Bring the beauty of eucalyptus leaves in motion to life with the Eucalyptus Dancing quilt pattern! This detailed pattern guides you through creating a striking 115cm x 115cm wall quilt, perfect for adding a touch of natural elegance to your home.

Designed for confident quiltmakers, this pattern offers a rewarding challenge with flowing curved seams and organic movement—capturing the essence of wind-swept eucalyptus in fabric.

✨ What’s included?

• Full quilt pattern – Clear, step-by-step instructions to guide you.
• Detailed techniques – Learn to piece graceful curved shapes with precision.

🧵 Skills required:

• Confident stitching along a curved line.
• Some manual dexterity for pinning curved pieces together.
• Basic quiltmaking skills: piecing, quilting, and finishing a quilt.

📌 Also available as a DIGITAL pattern.

Let your creativity flow—stitch your own Eucalyptus Dancing quilt and bring the beauty of Australian flora into your home!

Tools required:
Soft lead pencil (2B or 4B is best)
Sewing machine
Fabric scissors
Sewing pins
Iron and ironing board
Thread snippers are handy if you have them

Materials required:

Good quality iron-on interfacing (the thinnest you can find) (120cm by 120cm - you’ll need to stitch two pieces of interfacing together to make a piece this large)
Batting (120cm by 120cm)
Backing fabric (200cm – includes binding and hanging sleeve)
Sewing thread in a medium neutral colour (for piecing)
Sewing threads in assorted coordinating colours (for quilting)
A 30cm piece of baking paper (for ironing)
Cotton fabric in a range of colours as follows:
background 1.5m (I used a natural cotton-linen blend)
pale green 30cm
light/medium green 25cm
grey green 20cm
dark grey/brown green 30cm
green 30cm
dark green 20cm
pale warm yellow 20cm
light yellow 20cm
burnt orange 25cm
pale warm grey 20cm
light warm grey 20cm
warm grey 20cm
pale peach 25cm
very pale pink 20cm
pale pink 20cm
light pink 20cm
fuschia 20cm
warm pink 20cm
coral 30cm
pink 20cm
warm red 20cm
burnt red 20cm
maroon 30cm
plum  20cm

NB: fabric quantities are indicative only, and you may be able to use up random scraps that you have.