Floppy-Eared Friend Quilt Block
Quilt block pattern — one block to piece, not a finished quilt.
Floppy-Eared Friend is a pieced animal portrait with caramel fur, dark hanging ears and small cream facial markings. It uses only straight-edged squares, rectangles and half-square triangles, but the detailed face calls for organised, accurate piecing.
How it is pieced
- Pieces
- 79
- Shaped cuts
- 40
- Fabrics
- 5
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Half Square Triangle × 40
- Rectangle × 27
- Square × 12
Fabrics
- Sky — 35 pieces
- Caramel Fur — 22 pieces
- Chocolate Ears — 10 pieces
- Cream Markings — 9 pieces
- Eyes and Nose — 3 pieces
Notes
Lay out the pieces before sewing so that the ears, markings, eyes and nose remain correctly oriented. Piece the half-square-triangle sections first, taking care not to stretch their bias edges, then join them with the rectangles and squares in manageable sections. Accurate seams matter most around the small facial details, where slight shifts are noticeable.
Make it your own
Draw the Floppy-Eared Friend quilt block in the Quiltler studio — free in your browser, or on iPhone and iPad — to recolour it, swap in your own fabrics, resize it and lay it out into a whole quilt. This page is the block itself, not a finished quilt layout. When it looks the way you want, download the full quilt template of your version, with the fabric list and cutting sizes worked out for you.