I hadn’t blogged about Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses for awhile so I thought seeing as I just finished block #16 it was time to lay it all out and see what it was looking like.
Block #16
I thought when laying out the 16 blocks that it would be nice to put some fabric behind the blocks to see what it would kind of look like when joined. I picked out this pretty aqua batik for this but that doesn’t mean it will be the fabric I will use when joining the blocks – it is just what I used for now. The big intersection between the blocks will most likely be two colors but the small blocks – see the openings for 4 small squares? those will be one color. This is not the finished color placement – just for now. This is about 48 inches square right now with the border it would be more like 52 inch square I think. Right now I am aiming for 25 blocks for 5 rows by 5 rows and then I will decide if it gets bigger that would make a 60 inch quilt plus border – maybe 65 inches? I haven’t actually sat down and figured out how many more inches the border brings the quilt to. It is possible that I will go for larger – making it bed size, but at this point there are so many more quilts I want to make that I am not sure.
To finish off the sides and corners of the quilts this is what a corner block would look like – this is from the book. This might give you a better idea of what it would look like finished.
Block #17 is laid out and ready to begin work.
Today when watering the ferns I found that I now have 2 tree frogs residing in one of the porch ferns – they sure make a lot of noise at times. They are getting so tame they let me “pet” them without moving. It was so nice again today – topping off at 87 today and low humidity. I do not want to jinx anything by saying maybe the heat wave has broken, but it is what I am hoping for.
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