Morris Modernized: Hope of Hertfordshire Quilt Pattern

 

Hope of Hertfordshire

90" x 90"

12" Finished Block

9" Finished Border

See the free quilt pattern below.

Here's a star block with many possibilities published as "Hope of Hartford" by the Farm Journal in 1945. I assume the name recalls the Huys de Hoop (House of Hope), the first settlement that Dutch colonists built in what the English later named Hartford, Connecticut.

Charles Voysey designed his own house 

The Orchard in Chorley Wood, Hertsfordshire

in 1899

Because I have planned the block in my very British Morris Modernized fabrics, originally designed by Charles Voysey, I changed the pattern name to Hope of Hertfordshire, the English county with the original spelling.

I Photoshopped it onto a bed at The Orchard.

Voysey designed everything, the door latches, the fireplace,

the rug, the furniture.

Like many of the Arts & Crafts designer he thought the best bedspread was plain white.

But What Fun is That???

So I've added a quilt.

And here is a vintage quilt made in the pattern from about 1950, made from that Farm Journal pattern, I bet.

The block is constructed sort of like a log cabin with pieced rectangles rotating around a center square.

I shaded it differently from the original, making the background triangles a little darker so some secondary patterning appears.

The lighter rectangles

create another pinwheel between the blocks.

You could do it scrappy as long as you had mediums and darks to shade the center, and lights and mediums for the backgrounds.Here's the yardage for a controlled color scheme with five fabrics.

I drew the quilt up in EQ and under the Print Menu hit Fabric Yardage, which told me the yardage for the whole quilt.

The darkest print - 1 3/8 yards. I used the darkest print in the line: #8260-14, Oleander in the red.

The medium print - 2-3/4 yards. I used the largest print 8266-15 in the lighter green and tan, Oswin

or 

or #8265-16,

Saladin in tan

The light background - 1-3/4 yards. I was thinking a Moda Bella Solid (#9900-67) Fig Tree Cream

The medium background - 1-1/8 yards of Bella Solid (#9900-179) Together Tan

The Border

EQ's calculations on the border assumes the strips are pieced but I am not going to piece mine, rather cut them as one strip parallel to the selvage but I come up with the same yardage, which is 2-3/4 yards. You can get four 9-1/2" strips out of a width of fabric. I plan to use the #8264.13, the lighter colorway of the Bird & Tulip print.

The print is not to scale in my mock-up at the top. 

A 9-1/2" strip would give you four repeats of the tulip.

So cut 2 strips 9-1/2" x 72-1/2" for the sides and 

2 strips 9-1/2" x 90-1/2" for the top and bottom borders.

If you want to miter it, cut 4 strips 9-1/2" x 90-1/2" 

Cutting a 12" Block

You need 49 blocks for a 7x7 grid.

A - Cut 4 light rectangles of background fabric 5-1/4" x 2-7/8"

B - Cut 1 square of medium background fabric and 1 square of dark print 6". Cut each into 4 triangles with 2 diagonal cuts. 

You need 4 dark print triangles and 4 medium background triangles.

C - Cut 1 dark print square 2-7/8"

D - Cut 2 squares 5-5/8" of medium print. Cut each into 2 triangles with 1 diagonal cut.

Piecing the Block

UPDATE

Zipjezopje says in the Comments:

Hi Barbara, you don't need to pivot to add the last part. When you add the centre square to unit one, you start sewing halfway of the square seen from the middle and sew to the end. Now you add rectangle two and three the way you show. Part four is added to the side of part three and to the centre square, because of the loose end you can sew till the end. Part four is now easily sewn to part one, and by doing so you also sew the part of the centre square.

Thanks Z

Here's the Farm Journal version from BlockBase--- #2586

but the old quilt I am copying had the triangles arranged in a different way---flipped---

which made more of a pinwheel, I thought. They are both cut to the same measurements, so you can see which one you like best on your design wall.