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Dinosaur Paper Piecing Patterns

Dinosaurs are such a great theme for your kid’s room.  My paper pieced Dinosaur Quilt was so much fun to design.

As I chose the fabrics for my sample, I made a concerted effort to use some complementary colored fabric somewhere in my quilt…

 

The complements blue and orange worked perfectly in my Spinosaurus. You can see from the photos above how each dinosaur is comprised of 4 paper pieced blocks. In an effort to make this pattern as easy as possible for my customers, I am using a tiny black and white striped fabric for his teeth…because who wants to paper piece all those tiny teeth!

Here is Spinosaurus all connected.

Notice how the Pterodactyl’s teeth are made from a chevron fabric. So easy!

The dinosaur words were added as part of the quilting. I used a satin stitch. This could have also been achieved by machine embroidery.

My good friend Shelley framed the dinosaurs she paper pieced. They are hanging in her  brand new grandson’s nursery. And guess what his name is??? REX!  Love it 🙂

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Dinosaur Paper Pieced Quilt Pattern

Dinosaur Quilt photo retouchedThe paper pieced Dinosaur Quilt measures 44″x 60″.  As you can see, it highlights 6 cool dinosaurs: Stegosaurus, T-Rex, Spinosaurus, Brontosaurus, Pterodactyl, and my personal favorite, Triceratops.Triceratops photoUsing a striped fabric for the teeth makes the paper piecing go super quick! It is such an easy way to get that GRRRRR look.

Pterodactyl photoA zigzag fabric works cool for the teeth, too. There are so many nice chevron fabrics available right now, so finding a fabric similar to the black and white zigzag should be fairly easy. I found mine at my local quilt shop.

Stegosaurus photoIn the Stegosaurus, I just used a simple black fabric for his teeth. And I love using the tiny black and white stripe for his toes. It adds a nice graphic quality to the quilt.

Dinosaur words photo 1I satin stitched the words, but they could easily be machine embroidered. If you increase the stitch width at the end of each letter as you satin stitch, the letters look a bit fancier.

This paper pieced Dinosaur quilt pattern is available on Etsy and on Craftsy.