red and white 16-patch bar quilt, top completed

 
Red and White 16-Patch Bar Quilt
66 by 51 inches
top completed 2025

I love a 16 patch. It is a block that lends itself to simple piecing and the mosaic can be varied many ways. This is another of many variations from my sketchbook. 
I've used a stripie/bar setting in different proportions before with Glacier Bay linked HERE.

My reds 2 inch cut bin was full so I put my focus there. There are plenty remaining in that bin and I have plans for them.

Cutting:
White: 352 2-inch squares--I used Kona Snow
Red scraps: 1144 2-inch squares
(as always, my counts may be a bit off)

Piecing:
The basic block is a 16 patch made in two colorations. The photo arrows show pressing directions.

4 piece strips--note they are pressed south--a bit hard to see those arrows.
Then half blocks, full blocks, and units pressed west. Directions below.

Red and white 16 patch
Need 352 red squares and 352 white squares
Make 176 strips of four pieces
Pair up two strips, rotating one so seams nest, making 88 half blocks.
Make sure you feed the strips of 4 into the machine with a white square at the top, with the pressing of the top strip south and the bottom strip north.
Make 44 blocks
Pair these into 22 units

All reds 16 patch
Need 792 red squares
Make 198 strips of four pieces
Pair up two strips, rotaing one so seams nest.
Make sure you feed the strips of 4 into the machine with the pressing of the top strip south and the bottom strip north, making 99 half blocks
(as always, my numbers may be off)
Make 33 blocks and leave 33 half blocks
Join one full block and one half block into a unit.

The red and white units are two 16 patches.
The all reds units are made with one and one half 16 patches

Lay out the units into three columns of all reds and two columns of red and white.
ROTATE every other block going down the columns.
Watch the pressing--sometimes I lay out the quilt upside down so I can easily see the pressing plan in laying out blocks. 
There are 11 units in each column.

Sew units together into columns and press horizontal seams in red and white columns north and all reds coulmns south. 
Sew columns together.
Everything nests.

My design, use at your pleasure.

Got two dalmation heads in this quilt!

Love this Jan Mott fabric for Henry Glass for the backing