Season's piecings

The quilt is really lovely Nann; I've taken a copy of it. Not that I have many plaids in my stash but it looks a nice n' easy pattern. Best wishes for the New Year Bronnie

Oh, I love this and I can't believe you got it done so fast...I am majorly jealous! lol Donna

And I was looking around and was so tickled with your fine plastic bead/safety pin basket. White elephant exchange? oh, LOL, yesssss. That's hysterical. Polly

Awesomely ugly, isn't it? I could not resist.

Nann

What a great quilt! Any idea if that pattern is still available?

Mary

you did that in 3 days????? wow. i'm totally impressed. Not to mention, jealous! so i really would love a pattern, is it just made up or did you find it somewhere? is it PP or applique? The rail-fence one is adorable, too.

amy in CNY

The design is by Smith & Milligan (aka Possibilities) in Denver. The pattern appeared in Traditional Quiltworks. I can't tell you which issue because I've put the pattern away in a 6" high stack of pages torn from quilt magazines.

Anyway, the hearts pattern requires 8 5.5" squares per block.

1. Sew four together, alternating lights and darks.
2. Sew the other four together, ditto.
3. Make a heart pattern. Mark the horizontal and vertical centers.
4. Trace the heart pattern onto fusible web. Mark the centers.
5. Fuse the heart pattern to one of the 4-patches, matching the centers to the seam lines. Cut out.
6. Fuse the cut-out heart to the other 4-patch. Be sure that the light quadrants of the hearts go on the dark quadrants of the 4-patch.
7. Zig-zag or blanket stitch, as you prefer, around the edges of the heart.

This would be effective in other high-contrast fabric combinations, like batiks or bright prints. And of course the squares and the hearts could be made from smaller or larger squares.

Nann