Color Box

Color Box

Somebody recently asked me what my favorite pattern was. I was taken aback.

How can you pick just one?

But after I thought about it I realized the pattern I've made most often is the Housetop Log Cabin.

Color Box: Duet with Klimt

Blue Town in a Red State

Duet with Carmel---the Chintz Box

I've just been calling them Color Box.

Indigos and Yellow

Ragtime

Duet with Kandinsky

I used Kandinsky's colors. He was a genius.

Color Study by Wassily Kandinsky

The Print that Ate Chicago

I just sent this top off to the quilter. I made it several years ago at a retreat where we had a contest for the largest-scale print. The featured fabrics are some of the contenders.

So I do have a favorite pattern.

I'm inspired to make one out of my Morris Jewels Layer Cake packages. 9-1/2" finished squares for the centers. 2" finished strips for the frames from Jelly Rolls.

I drew it up in EQ7

16 blocks = 54" square

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• Cut the center square 10" x 10"
• Top strips should be cut 14" x 2-12"
• Side strips cut 10" x 2-1/2"

Add a border cut 10" wide and the quilt will be 73" x 73".

This means you can cut strips 2-1/2" wide out of Layer Cake squares and Jelly Roll strips. Or any width would do.I didn't measure the strips on The Print that Ate Chicago.

• Piece the side strips here 54-1/2" long by 10."
• The top and bottom strips 73-1/2" x 10."