Yankee Notions: Fabrics

Yankee Notion of the tangible kind

Our 2020 pieced block of the month begins here on January 8, 2020.

Every month you'll find a free pattern for a traditional block on the second Wednesday throughout the year. Yankee Notions will include instructions for 18-inch blocks and 12-inch blocks. You might want to consider a two-color sampler.

Like this mid-19th century album.

Red & white?

Late-19th-century sampler

Blue & White?

Orange & Turquoise?

66" x 87"

18" blocks set with 3" sashing

Add a 4" border to make a quilt 74" x 95"

For just the blocks for a Two-Color 12" Block Quilt you'd need 2-1/2 yards each of dark and light. Probably a minimum of 3 yards of each for the 18" Blocks

As the theme is American history, model makers Becky Brown & Denniele Bohannon are using a limited selection of red, white an blue fabrics.

Denniele's solids

Becky's using three prints.

For a Three-Color Quilt of 12" Blocks
You'll need 3 shades:

• 1/2 Yards
• 1-1/2 Yards
• 1-3/4 Yards

You might want to go with a traditional selection of 

reproduction prints. Here are a few collections available now.

Hat Box from Andover

Each month will show a plan for a traditional block in pinks and browns---

sort of a chocolate & cinnamon version.

Yarra Valley from Max & Louise

Twelve blocks of 12". I'd guess you'd need 12 fat quarters.

Mary Koval's Rhapsody in Blue

And then there is Tula Pink's PomPoms:

I started a Facebook group YankeeNotionsBOM so we can post pictures and fabric ideas.

Click here: Ask to join.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/543662069820849/

Dachshund pincushion

A Yankee notion probably imported from Germany

See more about the historical theme here:
https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2019/11/yankee-notions.html