Plan B

This intrigued me, Mika. So, I looked in my Barbara Brackman Encyclopaedia and found a fairly straightforward block called Shepherd's Crossing! There was another called Shepherd's Light, but that was a bit fiddly and might detract from the sheep fabrics. I either didn't see or have forgotten what you were thinking of doing (sorry), so I have no idea if this is in any way useful. But, if it might be an idea for what to do with your fabrics, please let me know and I can draft you out a picture of it and some tips on how to do it. An idea of the size of the block would be helpful, if you want to go ahead. For this one, all you would need to be able to do is mitred corners.

However, then I looked again and found one called Sheepfold Quilt. The name 'McKim' was beside it, as perhaps being the originator of the block, so that seemed appropriate for you!! This one is a simple unequal nine-patch: proportions being - centre three-set being twice as wide as the outer two. Would be a great showcase for a novelty fabric. . In message , Mika writes

I can't for the life of me remember the name of the pattern I have in mind but it's the one that features whole cloth blocks of a focus fabric alternating with strip pieced blocks of at least 3 coordinating colors. You set the strip pieced block so that the same color is next to and sort of frames the focus fabric block. Let me check my Webshots and see if I have a photo of the one I made......... OK -- it's the 4th one in the QUILTING album -- Johan's Peter Rabbit Quilt. The photo is terrible but you can see how the blocks alternate. I'm sure someone here will have a link to the actual pattern. It's one of those easy ones that you don't actually *need* a pattern for. If you decide you want to do this design, you want some sort of pattern and no one posts a link to the quilt, I can scan the "pattern" I made for myself to keep track of what goes where and then send it to you. Anyway, I could see using the different color sheep fabrics for the whole cloth blocks and then any 3 coordinating fabrics for the strip pieced blocks. You could make a border out of the other color(s) of sheep fabric and you'd have a nice quilt IMNSHO. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

Do you mean Warm Wishes, Mary? Sounds like it might be. . In message , Tia Mary writes

Mika, when you have time, go over to

and do a search for 'baby yellow'. There's some precious, just precious baby fabric and there's bound to be one or 37 that will call to you. I even saw some black sheep and a pastel batik to sigh over. I vote for Warm Wishes for a pattern. It doesn't take much brain power and the results are quite nice. Polly

That's so cool I saved a copy for myself, and then went to the list of free downloads page and found some others. Debra in VA See my quilts at