If you love adding small, quilted touches to your home décor, then you’ll fall in love with these colorful magnets from Debi Schmitz. A perfect spring gift for gardeners and quilters alike, these seed packet magnets feature watermelon, daisy, and pansy designs and are an innovative way to use up small scraps of quilting fabric. Add your seed pack designs to clear plastic sleeves, attach a small magnet, and place them on your fridge to give your kitchen a tiny pop of bright color.
Materials:
- Fabric:
- Watermelon: Fabric scraps of orange, yellow, purple, light green, hot pink and dark green.
- Pansy: Fabric scraps of purple, blue, hot pink, light green, dark green, yellow, and black.
- Daisy: Fabric scraps of yellow, orange, blue, dark green, white, and aqua.
- (3) 2” x 3 1/4″ cardstock pieces
- (3) Thermoweb Heat’n Bond (HB)- 6” squares
- (3) Vertical Clear Plastic Badge Holder (trim away excess framework)
- Double side tape
- (3) 2 1/2” x 3/4” magnets
- PDF Patterns – These are located at the bottom of this page. Please see printing instructions below.
Tools:
- Pins
- Hand sewing needles
- Iron
- Sewing machine
- Cutting mat
- Clear acrylic ruler
- Rotary cutter
PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS:
Note: To download the patterns, click on the pattern download button at the bottom of the page. We recommend opening your pattern download using Adobe Acrobat.
Cutting Instructions:
Watermelon:
- (1) 2” x 5/8” and (1) 2” x 3/8” Orange
- (1) 2” x 3 1/4” Yellow
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Purple
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Light Green
- (1) 2” x 2” Hot Pink with HB on the back
- Cut (1) watermelon using Pattern A.
- (1) 2” x 2” Dark Green with HB
- Cut (1) watermelon rind using Pattern B.
Pansy:
- (1) 2” x 5/8” and (1) 2” x 3/8” Purple
- (1) 2” x 3 1/4” Light Green
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Blue
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Hot Pink
- (1) 2” x 2” Yellow with HB
- Cut (1) Pansy using Pattern C.
- (1) 2” x 2” Black with HB
- Cut (1) Pansy Center using Pattern D.
- (1) 2” x 2” Dark Green with HB
- Cut (2) Leaves using Pattern E.
Daisy:
- (1) 2” x 5/8” and (1) 2” x 3/8” Yellow
- (1) 2” x 3 1/4” Aqua
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Orange
- (3) 1” x 1 1/2” Blue
- (1) 2” x 2” White with HB
- Cut (1) Daisy using Pattern E.
- (1) 2” x 2” Yellow with HB
- Cut (1) Daisy Center using Pattern F.
- (1) 2” x 2” Dark Green with HB
- Cut (2) Leaves using Pattern G.
Sewing Instructions:
- These directions and Diagrams are the same for all seed packets shown here.
- Using 1/4” seam and light-yellow thread, stitch the side pieces- (1” x 1 1/2” squares- two colors alternating). They will be stitched so the strip ends up being 1 1/2” wide. Cut two strips from this striped piece that are 1/2” x 6”. Stitch these strips to the long sides of the background piece close to each edge.
- Stitch the top and bottom pieces to the background fabric over the side strips.
- Iron the pattern piece fabrics to the front of the pieced seed packet as shown.
- Quilt and stitch details on the seed packets as desired.
- With a permanent thin point marker, write the word, SEEDS, on the top center.
- Use the double sided tape to attach the quilted seed packet to a piece of cardstock. Trim the fabric close to the cardstock. Slip the seed packet into the clear badge pocket.
- Attach a magnet to the back of the badge holder.
