Magazines !

This week there is no single block, but a reference to one of the Magazines to which I subscribe. I have just received the most recent issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting and there are several great quilts that are eminently Inklingoable ! I am only going to give the sizes of shapes that you need. If you want the pattern, buy the magazine :-)

IF you want to make any of the quilts, I can recommend that you download Monkey's Cheat Sheet and use it to note down all the sizes and shapes that you are going to need, AND fill it out with the relevant shape and size of Inklingo template.

... and PLEASE note that this magazine usually makes HST by using full squares ! This is not necessary with Inklingo. You can see pictures of most of them at the Fons and Porter home-page, because they have kits for most of these quilts


Watermelon & ShooFly (p. 18 ff)
Make the ShooFly blocks with 2" HST in Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection, and 2" squares found in MANY collections. Check the Index of Shapes on the Inklingo page.

Cottage in May (p. 43 ff).
Instead of cutting 2.5" squares for quick corners, print 2" HST with Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection.
Instead of cutting 3.5" squares for quick corners, print 3" HST with Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection.

Kinkame (p. 52 ff)
This quilt can ALL be made with the shapes in Collection 3. The triangles used are 0.75", 1.5" and 2.25". All found in Collection 3. Remember that the Inklingo-size is the finished size of the shape.

Cambridge Stars (p.72 ff)
The basic unit is 2.25". So print 2.25", and 4.5" HST and cut (free-hand), 2.25" (finished size) squares. The smaller HST is in the downloadable collection, both sizes are in Collection 2.

Elizabeth's Garden (p. 80 ff)
The following can be printed :
3" HST (triangle A), 1" squares (for the centre 9-patches) Again the downloadable HST 00B collection, and MANY other collections. Check the Index of Shapes at the Inklingo home-page

Variable Star (p. 86 ff)
Is made with 6" (finished size) Variable Star blocks. These blocks have already been shown on this blog, under the name of Evening Star.

Meadow Brook (p. 92 ff)
Uses 3" HST from either Collection 2 or the downloadable HST 00B collection, and 3" squares from either the Drunkard's Path collection or the 9" Storm At Sea collection

Grandmother's Daisy Garden (p. 100 ff)
I think this one is meant to be simple, using Paper-Piecing and the cutting of 60-degree angles. I think I would rather just make the hexagon flowers using the 1.5" hexagons in Collection 3, and "rectangle" them up.