Kentucky Crossroads

It took a lot longer than I had hoped to have the pattern ready...but it's finally done!  This was a fun quilt to draft, write and make....from beginning to end.  

Ronda did a wonderful job quilting this beauty.  The antique has crosshatching in the sashing, and I loved it, and wanted to replicate that in the reproduction.  A simple design was chosen for the Kentucky block so as not to overwhelm the block.  I'm also fond of the sashing cornerpost block which, like the Kentucky block, is an unusual block as well.  

The pattern has instructions to make the quilt scrappy......

....or in the two-color antique version.

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Kentucky Crossroads ~ Coming Soon!

I recently acquired this lovely old quilt.  I immediately fell in love with this block, and I adore blue and white quilts.  I had to have it!  

When I returned home, I looked for the block in Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia and found that this exact block is not in the book.  It's a unique version of the Kentucky Crossroads block.  A perfect name for the quilt, I thought.

The traditional piecing for the block requires a set-in Y seam.  Groan.  So, I drafted the block without a set-in seam.  Yay!

Hoping to have the quilt finished and photographed mid-July.  Pattern very soon afterward.  

It's been such a fun block to piece!!  Start stash diving for a bunch of dark prints that will make terrific blocks.  

Toodles for now.....keep on stitchin'!