This is the last of the twelve 2024 Riley Blake door
banners. I made ten of these wall hanging quilts exactly as their patterns
directed. But the first and last (April and March) just didn’t suit me. So, I
designed my own. For April, I re-drafted the blocks from The Buggy Barn’s Bunny
Trail quilt (2005) so they’d each measure 10x12” instead of 11x14”. I used the
prints from the April kit, and I’m very happy with the results. March was a bit
more complicated. The original design had eight flowers, six stars and five diamond
shapes, all in gold, grey and greens. I knew I wanted to replace them with Irish
chain blocks, but there are so many different ones, with different dimensions.
It took me a while, but I finally settled on simple 6” four-patch chain blocks using
the kit’s solids, with seven intermittent sawtooth stars using the prints. The
hearts inside the stars were just a lucky whim.
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