You've got ten patterns, January to October. Pick your favorite nine blocks and get his puppy finished before the holidays. I took Mark's retro red and green blocks and made a virtual quilt inspired by the applique sampler below. The blocks are set with alternate unpieced blocks. From the Nebraska Project and the Quilt Index I chopped off the edge in Photoshop so you just have a half of Block #10 About 67-1/2" x 67-1/2" Then because I am trying to get good at the new EQ8 I spent some time drawing and coloring. I need more practice so choosing the tools in the new format is second nature. You want to learn a computer program you spend an hour a day on it for a while. (My idea of a good time.) You can do a screen capture of the quilt in EQ with or without the seam lines. The Pattern 9 Pieced Blocks for the center finishing to 12" 16 alternate white blocks cut 12-1/2" square, finishing to 12" 12 edge blocks---here they are half of Block #10, Carolina Lily. 4 corner blocks---a quarter of the Carolina Lily block. There might be some complaints about this plan, however. Pretty as Block 10 may be, it begs the question....How many Y seams would you have to do? Now you could piece those edge blocks like Martha C did: No Y See a post on her modified pattern last week: https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2018/11/block-10-carolina-lily-with-no-inset-y.html Block 2 Lend & Borrow as the border Or you might want to try a faster-to-piece block. Well, faster to piece if you like to chain piece half-square triangles by the yard. With the seam lines See the Block 2 Instructions here: https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2018/02/antebellum-album-2-lend-borrow.html This one might work better with plain white corner triangles. Cut 2 white squares 9-3/8". Cut each in half diagonally and you'll have 4 corner triangles you can trim a bit. I used EQ8 to calculate the yardage for the white alternate blocks and the extra edge blocks. It says: 2-1/2 Yards of white and 1-1/2 yards each of the two colors for the edge blocks here. Of course if I spent an hour a day at my sewing machine instead of at my computer I'd get a lot of these ideas actually stitched.
