Did you spot the bunnies in the tulip patch?

A few notes before we start

• Each block from Bunny Trail finishes at 12" x 12", which is the same as two of the smaller sized tulips blocks from Paper Tulips, including a vertical sashing strip between the two tulip blocks (see diagram below). 
  
  Please note: the block substitutions do NOT work for the larger tulip blocks included in Paper Tulips. If you would like to make a larger quilt than a baby size, you would need to add extra rows and/or columns, still using the smaller tulip blocks!
• Finished quilt size of the shown example: 37" x 44" (identical to the Paper Tulips baby quilt)
• You will need the following patterns:
• • Bunny Trail (get the pdf or printed booklet)
  • Paper Tulips (get the pdf or printed booklet)
• The fabric requirements for the quilt top are basically those of Paper Tulips, plus those of Bunny Trail. Depending on how many tulips you're replacing with bunnies and Easter eggs, you might just end up needing a little less fabric for the flower heads and stems and leaves.

Cutting instructions

• You’ll only need to prepare background pieces BG1-BG3 from your Bunny Trail pattern (skip BG4 and BG5).
• From the Paper Tulips pattern, you'll need the following:

• Print all FPP templates from Bunny Trail, plus 9 smaller tulip head FPP templates from Paper Tulips.
  

Piecing your quilt top

Making your bunny and egg blocks

1. Piece the 3 FPP block from your Bunny Trail pattern.

Making your tulip blocks

2. Piece 9 tulip head units as described in the Paper Tulips pattern.
3. Piece 5 stem units for the shorter tulip blocks (steps 3-6 from Paper Tulips).
4. Piece 4 stem units for the taller tulip blocks (steps 7-10 from Paper Tulips).
5. Assemble your units from steps 2-5 into 9 tulip blocks (5 short + 4 tall tulips).

Assembling your quilt top

6. Refer to Fig. 13 and steps 13-16 from Paper Tulips to assemble your quilt top, while treating each of your bunny and egg blocks as if they were a unit of [tulip block - vertical sashing strip - tulip block].

And that's it! Time to finish and use your brand-new Easter quilt!

More Easter mash-up projects

As mentioned at the beginning, you could follow the same concept to make projects of all sizes. 

How about adding 4 tulip blocks to the original Bunny Trail table runner for example, to increase its length to about 70"?

• Table runner (14" x 70"):

And for larger quilts, just add more rows and/or columns!

If you wanted, you could even add more friends, too! How about a duck for example? Like the bunnies, the "Mama Duck" block from Duck March is also 12" wide. Since it is 16" high though, it lends itself best to a position in the top row and you may want to a few inches of background fabric to the top of the quilt.

• Throw (51" x 62") with "Mama Duck" block from Duck March (get the pdf or printed booklet)