CHERRY BASKET
IN THE Cherry Basket we have a pattern that requires only half of the blocks pieced. It sets together always with alternating squares on the diagonal, filling in at the four sides of the quilt with white half-blocks to complete. There are several basket versions but this one with appliquéd handle and pieced basket is particularly effective. It makes a block 12 inches square, patterns for all parts being here given except the large triangle upon which the handle is appliquéd. This is easily cut by taking any paper at a right angle, measuring 10 inches down each side and drawing across.
Make your set of cardboard patterns exactly like the ones here given. These do not allow for seams; draw on the cloth around cardboard, but cut a seam larger and then sew back to the pencil line. Cherry Basket makes a good number to select for one of those popular patchwork pillows, as well as for a Colonial quilt. It takes 25 pieced blocks, 16 plain blocks, and 16 plain half blocks cut on the diagonal for sides, also 4 plain one fourth blocks cut on the diagonal for the corners. Allow 6 yards of unbleached, 2 yards of brown print and 1 1/2 yards of red print.
The Cherry Basket quilting pattern is especially designed to go with this block.
DUTCHMAN'S PUZZLE AND WINDMILL
THE two triangles on this page are the basis of a "double header “number with no additional charge for admission! In two clever ways it proves what can be done with a pair of triangles, one, half the area of the other, by using white and two colors.
In Dutchman's Puzzle two smaller triangles add to a larger about like the cutting chart patterns are placed, and this twice done forms a square, 14 of the finished block. The darker always points into the lighter and thus the Puzzle is solved into a 12-inch block.
Windmill is quite a different arrangement, even more simple which makes a block 81/2 inches square.
A windmill quilt 85 inches square takes 100 8 1/2-inch blocks, 50 of them plain and 50 pieced. Allow 4 3/4 yards of white, 1 yard light blue and 1 3/4 yards dark blue, or 7 1/2 yards of material.
Dutchman's Puzzle, on the upper left, can be made of red print, yellow print and unbleached muslin, making the 4 large center triangles red print, the four large outer triangles yellow print and the 16 small triangles of the unbleached. There will be 28 pieced blocks and 28 plain blocks, making a quilt 84 by 96 inches, or 7 blocks wide by 8 blocks long. A quilt of this size requires 1 1/4 yards red print, 1 1/4 yards yellow print and 6 1/2 yards unbleached muslin.
Six-inch Feather Circle or the Thistle would be right size for the Windmill block, while the Snowflakes or a 10-inch Feather Circle would fit the Dutchman’s Puzzle.
MERRY GO ROUND
THIS is an admirable design for us-in odd scraps of bright wash goods; each block may be a different color so long as the light and dark value remains about the same. The thing that makes so many old quilts disreputable looking is a few really dark blocks, navy blue, or lead colored percale, irregularly spaced and showing up like great holes in an otherwise light colored pattern of pinks, yellow and pale blue. There must be a plan for the whole quilt when using scrap bag pieces. These cutting units may or may not be cut a seam larger than the sizes here given. The Merry Go Round block as shown is really four blocks all exactly alike. By using these units and allowing for a seam, 9 pieced blocks 18inches square will be needed. Set together with 18 strips cut to finish 41/2by 18 inches. Fill in the square at the end of these strips with a 41/2-inch pinwheel like the unit in the center of the block. Eight of these small squares will be needed. Put the 4 1/2-inch strip at each end, but not on the sides of the quilt, to add length. This makes a finished quilt about 85 inches wide by 94inches long; requires 61/2 yards white with 21/2 yards of colored material.
BLAZING STAR
THERE are ever so many quilt patterns but none are more charming than this shaded eight-point one often called the Blazing Star. Eight little diamond-shaped four patches are pieced and set together with background triangles to form the block.
Any grouping of colors may be used, and a third color, as lighter yellow or pale green with the above plan of yellow and orange could be used instead of the white diamonds. With seams added to the cutting patterns here given the block finishes about 13 1/2 inches square, or without seams added, 12 to I2 1/2 inches.
This quilt sets together with alternate plain blocks, and includes 21 pieced blocks, 21 plain blocks and is 6 blocks wide by 7 blocks long plus a 2-inch border which makes it finish about 80 by 93 inches. It requires 1 yard orange, 1 yard yellow and 6 1/2 yards of white. Allow one yard extra of orange for the border.
NINE-PATCH
A nine-patch demands that you get four intersections to meet exactly instead of just one as in the four patch. A double nine patch made of tiny squares cut about 1 1-4 inches square makes one of the daintiest quilts imaginable when flowerlike colors are used in profusion with white for the alternate squares. Using all four corners of little pieced ninepatches as well as the center makes it even lovlier.
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