Stitchers who are ahead of you...

Karen Dever has her top set together.

She wanted to show it to her class last Saturday so I sent her the last two blocks.

She made some progress in using up her reproduction stash.

She used the set I suggested based on this late 19th century design. It looks like a medallion but it's just blocks set on point. See the pattern here:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-setting-ideas.html 

And I noticed on the Flickr page that ATypicalQuilter has hers set.

She's consistently used solids and batiks

so her results are very contemporary looking.

Two more Saturdays....

More Setting Ideas

I noticed on our Flickr page that Thalia has mocked up an diagonal chain in alternate blocks, which looks good. A nice way to unify some very different blocks.

And Magpie Memories is going to use the same set she used in her "Sylvia's Bridal Quilt."

I thought about a medallion kind of format. Sorta like this. All 53 blocks fit. The quilt is a little bit more than 95" square and it's easier than it looks because it's really just an alternate block set with the blocks on point.

I was inspired by this quilt that Terry Thompson and I did years ago for one of our Moda Civil War repro lines.

The pieced blocks are white squares in this mockup. The quilt is a grid of 7 x 7 blocks on point.

The border finishes to 8" with four pieced blocks in the corners.

This is the alternate block (A) finishing to 8".

Cut squares 8-7/8". Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles.

Piece into squares.

You need 24 alternate blocks like Block A---

16 shaded in palette 1 for the outer ring and

8 shaded in a palette 2 for the middle ring.

To get the medallion shading you need a second alternate block (B) to turn the corners.

You need 12 alternate blocks B---

4 shaded in palette 1 for the outer ring,

4 shaded in a palette 2 for the middle ring and

4 shaded in palette 3 for the center ring.

Piece them as they are shaded above but you have to rotate these to get the medallion illusion.

Cut Block B

Cut the large triangles by cutting squares 8-7/8". Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles.

Cut the small triangles by cutting squares 9-1/4". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 cuts.

You also need edge triangles to finish out the sides.

You need 24 larger triangles for the edge. Cut 6 squares 12-5/8  ". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 cuts.

And 4 smaller triangles for the corners. Cut 2 squares 6-5/8". Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles.

For the border

Cut 4 strips 8-1/2" x 79-7/8". (2 1/2 yards of a border print would be plenty.)

Now do remember we have no technical editor here but St. Thomas over on the left so check my math before you cut.