ladder, red and white, top completed

 

Red and White Ladder
top completed 2024
81 by 68 inches
Block size finishes 3 by 4 inches (3 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches unfinished)
17 columns of 27 blocks
459 blocks

I used the idea from my earlier Ladder quilt. That version is shown:
Block Construction
Top completed
Quilt completed

This time I wanted to do a red and white take on Ladder with my wonderful scrap red fabrics. The white is Kona Snow. The reds are in random orientation. I let them fall as they wished, no up or down to this quilt.

Cutting
Red: 2 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch rectangles
White: 1 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch rectangles

Block
Sew one white rectangle to one red rectangle
Press towards the red

Units 
Sew blocks to make as long as you want the quilt to be.
For mine this is 27 blocks
Press in the same direction as the first pressing. 
Make 17 columns

Take two units, flip one, and sew into paired columns.
I made 8 pairs with one remaining column left single
The seams on each will be pressed opposite.

In making these columns two units sewn together I enter the machine with a white on top, the top unit with pressed seams south. Keep this consistent
Wait with pressing the columns until later.

Lay out the quilt. 
Sew together the columns, adding the single column on last.
Press all these joining seams one direction.
Everything nests.

An adaptation of my earilier design. Use at your pleasure.

Backing is pieced from these two color-ways of Michael Miller "Letters From Afar"