Description
Make the Flight of the Bumblebee! Coordinates with The Flight of the Bumblebee BOM 2027 by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. Learn More About the Project → here!
Get ready to quilt and craft gardens galore with this fun die by your side. Cut 3 sizes of each shape from fused cotton or get crafty with materials like felt, craft foam, and wool. This die is the perfect companion to the GO! Garden Variety #2 by Ricky Tims & Alex Anderson, featuring the same fresh and useful shapes but in larger sizes. Free, downloadable embroidery adds extra value for those with embroidery machines.
Take your GO! Garden Variety #1 projects to the next level with the FREE GO! Garden Variety #1 by Ricky Tims & Alex Anderson Embroidery Designs ($22 value). Each shape includes motif, blanket, and satin stitch options. Visit the embroidery designs page to download your FREE machine embroidery files.
Need Help Getting Started? Follow our step-by-step Embroidery How-To to learn how to add and finish your GO! Garden Variety appliqué!
About Ricky Tims & Alex Anderson 
Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson are internationally recognized quilting educators, designers, authors, and innovators. With decades of combined experience, they have inspired quilters around the world through their teaching, books, television, and creative work.
Ricky is an award-winning quilter, best-selling author, fabric designer, and co-founder and co-host of The Quilt Show. Alex is a renowned quilting instructor and lecturer, author of 30 books, and former host of Simply Quilts on HGTV. Together, they bring a passion for creativity, innovation, and making quilting accessible and inspiring to quilters of all skill levels.
AQ Cutting Mat Required: GO! Cutting Mat, 6 in. x 12 in. (15.2 cm x 30.4 cm)
How to Die Cut GO! Garden Variety #1 Shapes:
Apply fusible web product to the wrong side of the fabric, following manufacturer’s instructions, before cutting for fusible appliqué. Place fabric on die right sides together to cut pairs.
- #1 Petals:
- Cut and fuse a 3 3/4" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both large petals and cut.
- Cut and fuse a 3" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both medium petals and cut.
- Cut and fuse a 2 3/8" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both small petals and cut.
- One yard of 40" wide fabric cuts 396 large, 624 medium, or 960 small petals.
- #2 Petals:
- Cut and fuse a 3 1/2" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both large petals and cut.
- Cut and fuse a 2 7/8" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both medium petals and cut.
- Cut and fuse a 2 1/8" x WOF strip. Fanfold over both small petals and cut.
- One yard of 40" wide fabric cuts 440 large, 624 medium, or 1,120 small petals.
- Circles:
- Cut a 2 3/4" x WOF strip and fanfold over both large circles.
- Cut a 2 1/4" x WOF strip and fanfold over both medium circles.
- Cut a 1 3/4" x WOF strip and fanfold over both small circles.
- One yard of 40" wide fabric cuts 676 large, 1,024 medium, or 1,600 small circles.
Why Quilters Love the GO! Garden Variety #1 Die:
- Ricky Tims is known internationally as a best-selling author, teacher, award-winning quilter, and fabric designer. Alex Anderson is one of the most sought-after instructors and lecturers in the international quilting and sewing industry. Tims and Anderson co-founded The Quilt Show and later started a quilting magazine called The Quilt Life. Together, they continue to influence the sewing world.
- Add beautiful floral designs using the GO! Garden Variety #1 to make your next project blossom. Cut and arrange petals in a variety of combinations to create a whole field of flowers. This die pairs with other GO! floral dies, making it a must-have for your flower collection.
- No templates required. The GO! Garden Variety #1 die includes eighteen applique shapes that are difficult to cut by hand.
- Quickly and easily cut four of each pre-fused appliqué shapes in one pass through the cutter (fusible counts as one half layer of fabric).
- Cut Garden Variety #1 shapes out of a variety of fabrics: cotton, batiks, wool, felt, flannel, fleece, Cuddle® fabrics and more!
- Includes free embroidery download with 3 stitches ($22 value).
- Combine with the GO! Garden Variety #2 by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson (Needle Turn) (57010) shapes to create needle-turn appliqué.
- Charm Square-friendly.
AccuQuilt Benefits:
- Cut so much more fabric in less time.
- Get accurate cuts every time -- No slipping rulers or mistakes
- Easiest to use -- Simply place die on cutter, then fabric and cutting mat on top
- Save fabric with Two Tone Foam -- Get more out of your fabric by placing it only over the shape you want to cut.
- Safe to use -- No blades come anywhere near your fingers
Die Tips:
- With some fabrics, after cutting, a thread or two will remain where die blades meet. Snip threads with scissors.
- Blades on some dies are positioned at an angle. Align fabric to edge of shape, not edge of die board.
- Use good quality fabric to reduce fabric stretch.
- It's always a good idea to test cut one shape before cutting many shapes to ensure fabric orientation is correct.