Free Quilt Patterns | Expert Tips and Tricks

You may be a confirmed quilt fan and have a chest full of beautiful coverlets and yet be eager for one more handsome pattern; or you may be just on the verge of attempting your first quilt. At any rate, you surely cannot be indifferent to the charms of patchwork that simply isn't being done! This wholesome revival of quilt making which is so thoroughly sweeping the country is far more than a fad.

Quilts are the sort of furnishings best loved by the home makers of our land today who appreciate the rich background of beauty and tradition bequeathed to us by Colonial forefathers. The American wing of the Metropolitan Museum is not a fad, and neither, we vouch, is quilt making.

So if you are making a quilt, and it is taking many hours of your time, do not consider them as spent in some fancy work craze such as sealing-wax jewelry one year and painted plaster casts another. You are making a thing of beauty, let us hope something useful, beautiful and enduring.

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The easiest quilts to make are perhaps four-patches upon which so many little girls have learned to sew, and brick work, that boon plan of piecing for the woman who has a lot of sample oblongs all shaped alike. Brick work is simply sewing into shallow rows a strip of equal size oblongs, then jogging the seam half way over for the next row, etc. Four patches are 2 dark and 2 light squares joined checkerboard fashion, and two of these alternated with plain square of equal size to make a large block.

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 nine patches as well as the center makes it even lovelier.

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