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A digitally rendered bedroom scene: a child jumping on a bed, wrapped in a patchwork quilt in tones of rust, dark brown, cream and pale blue. Digitally rendered

Modern quilt patterns · Recolourable

See it in your colours first.

One design, three sizes, yours to recolour — so the fabric you buy is the quilt you pictured.

Digital pattern · Three sizes · $7 CAD beta edition · Recolour it free in Colour Lab

No. 1Why it matters

You’ll know before you cut.

A quilt is months of evenings. Fabric you paid for. Colour Lab shows you the finished quilt in your colours first. Start knowing you’ll love it.

No. 2Colour Lab — free
No. 3The original
Photograph of the original Lineage quilt, in the ORIGINAL colourway, on a child’s bed with both ends draped over the sides. Lineage quilt top drawn in the ORIGINAL colourway: 9 rows, 25 columns, 6 fabrics.

Debbie made this one first.

The pattern is drawn from her own notes and checked against every square of her plan. Everything else on this site is a drawing or a rendering, and says so.

No. 4Inside the pattern

A pattern that keeps you sure of yourself.

Lineage comes with the planning built in. Fewer decisions left to chance.

PLAN

Your colours settled before anything is cut.

6 fabrics, A–F, changeable one at a time in Colour Lab

PREP

A cutting list with the arithmetic already done.

Cut for strip piecing — yardage and strip widths worked out

BUILD

Row by row, in the order it was actually sewn.

Strip sets, subcut, joined from the top down

REFERENCE

The whole quilt in one drawing.

Every row and fabric placement at a glance

BONUS

An old-school colouring page and a swatch planner.

Pencils on paper, before you open Colour Lab

No. 5The pattern
Twin drawn to scale.
Twin75″ × 96″ 190.5 x 243.8 cm
Crib drawn to scale.
Crib36″ × 54″ 91.4 x 137.2 cm
Baby drawn to scale.
Baby36″ × 48″ 91.4 x 121.9 cm

Lineage.

Confident beginner quilt pattern

Details

Confident beginner · Strip piecing, rectangles only · 1/4" seam, pressed open

Each size is its own pattern, drawn from the same rows. · Recolour any of them free in Colour Lab · Future Lineage sizes sent to you free

$7 CAD

Founding Maker Beta — first 5 makers

Also drawn in 20+ additional colourways