I’d like to introduce my latest Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) pattern: a fructose molecule! This is the form of sugar found naturally in food like fruit and vegetables. It’s what makes these foods sweet, so I turned it into a geeky twist on the ‘home sweet home’ phrase.
The pattern includes templates for a 12″ finished fructose molecule to use however you wish (perhaps with my serotonin molecule pattern?). It also includes FPP patterns for the letters in ‘home’ sized to go with the 12″ pattern if you want to make a ‘home sweet home’ project like mine. My FPP patterns generally include 1/2″ seam allowance (standard for most quilted pieces), as well as an extra 1/2″ for trimming. This means the fructose pattern makes a 13″ x 9″ piece, which should be trimmed down to 12.5″ before being used with other elements (such as the HOME letters) and will finish at 12″ wide.
The pattern includes instructions for embroidering the chemical components around the molecule. These are required to clearly define what the molecule is for real chemists, but even without them the pattern is fun and science-y (and most of my chemist friends still recognized it as a sugar).
Solids or near solids really let the structure of the molecule shine in this pattern. I used fabric I screen printed myself for the letters, and cotton + steel for the binding. As always, you can find this fructose pattern along other geeky patterns in my craftsy pattern shop. What other molecules would you like to see?
Nice pattern….but I don’t think you’ll be getting many people with fructose intolerances buying them 😉