red and white patience corner, top completed

 

Red and White Patience Corner
top completed 2024
80 by 64 inches
Block size finishes 8 inches (8 1/2 inches unfinished)
80 blocks
set 8 across by 10 down

I thought I posted this but found it in my to-do list. I finished it last month.
I love the Patience Corner block and have made variations of it over the years.
Here is one I made in May 2023 with more of a white emphasis.

This current one is scaled to feature the wonderful reds. I pushed the reds from burgundy to nearly orange. One piece is from my mom's scraps of a dress she made for my sister in the mid 1950s.

My directions of a traditional block. Use at your pleasure.

Block cutting
Red:
Four 3 1/2 inch squares (320 for the quilt)
White is Kona Snow
Four 1 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch rectangles (320 for the quilt)
Four 1 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch rectangles (320 for the quilt)

Make 320 quarter blocks
Press to the white

Make 160 half blocks
Press to the right

Flip one unit, sew together into block
Do not press horizontal seam yet
Make 80 blocks

Sew blocks together into units of 5 blocks, keeping horizontal all seams

Make 16 units

Press half of the units seams north, half of the units seam south

Sew the units into eight 10 block units

Lay out quilt with four units for each half of the quilt

Press one half of the quilt east, one half west

Sew together 

Two blocks, on its way to being a 5-block unit