My mom wants me to find her a pattern for the"apple core". well I sent her the one I got from quilters cache and she said that it was ok but she thinks that there is an easier way to do it. well I have no idea. I looked at a couple different patterns but I just don't know what is easy and what is not.

so if anyone knows of an "easier" way to do it than the one in Quilters cache I would appreciate any help.

Thanx

I watched a video where they made one using a tempate and fusible web. The background fabric would be your main color and they cut out the fused fabric in the shape of the apple core.
When you lay out the fused shapes, the backing fabric becomes an apple core shape too... It is hard to explain, maybe someone else can do a better job :D:D:D

Check out
www.quiltsmart.com
website, i have been working on an apple core quilt this way for two summers..(it stays in my camper,so i have something to do when away and traveling.)
you iron it down on fabric.or muslin..your using 1 sided fusable, sewing it up,right sides together, and tunring it inside out, and pressing it down..is this what you mean?

Well, I searched and found a couple of sites:

FREE:
P&B Textiles has a free download for an apple core quilt called "Pop Parade" http://pbtex.com/html/popparadepat.html

Tablerunner but pattern could be adapted: http://www.ezquilt.com/patterns/tabl...ablerunner.htm

FREE Applecore TEMPLATE
http://www.thimbletales.com/images/P...lecoretemp.jpg

FOR SALE:
http://www.mycraftivitystore.com/pro...le-core-quilt/

Hope you are able to find what Mom's looking for ;)

Thanx everyone I will check out these sites and then ask her what her idea of easy was,lol

great sites.

I just rec'd the Core die from Accuiquilt. Now to figure out how to sew them together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeNuwv0-SLc
here is a tutorial for templates, but it shows you how to sew them together.

Thanks for the template pattern!

OK. After the Grandmother's Flower Garden and the Log Cabin, I'm going to do an Apple Core...or maybe I'll do all of them at once!

Check this out...not the core but circles...its really cool how she does it. http://quiltinaday.com/theater/egg/egg5.html

great! it is also terrific way to use your fancy stitches to sew them down!

I like how the circle will not fray doing it the way Eleanor does it. I would never have thought of that....sew the circle to the fusible and then turn them inside out, iron and sew.

Can you tell me the name of the video? I have searched buy can`t find it??? Thank you

I actually find that it is an easy pattern to sew by hand. I have the template from Missouri Star Quilt Company.

Missouri Star Quilt had a video that showed how to do them. I made one and it was really easy.
I watched the video twice and went to it. I have the apple core templates from MSC in 3 or 4 different sizes.
Evelyn in Sequim

I got the Sissix die. It is not super hard to sew together but it is slow go. I did a wall hanging and after that experience I would probably not make one much larger then 50x60.

Cute placemats Martina!

I started an apple core quilt and it became a nightmare so I passed it on to my mother who I'm pretty sure has lost it! Not going to make another one in this life time! Sorry but they are not easy to put together!

The ladies at the store are all excited about sewing curves with the "Curve Master Foot." I bet it would work great for the Apple Core.

I recently recorded a show on Fons & Porter Love of Quilting about the apple core template.
I haven't made it, but it didn't look too hard.

you can do a strip of each technique quilt!

It is not difficult to do, but you cannot speed thru the sewing......it's a very gentle curve and if you take your time it all falls into place.