You can find the book here.
Patchwork of the crosses quilt pattern.
If you use cotton wadding you may need to add more quilting.
When i saw a picture of part of lucy boston s patchwork of the crosses in a magazine i was fascinated with her design and wanted to know more about it.
With the renewed interest in hand piecing and working with mirror imaged fabrics lucy s patchwork of the crosses block has become very popular.
Use a betweens needle and cream thread.
Aug 2 2020 lucy boston patchwork of the crosses epp.
The original lucy boston patchwork of the crosses quilt is enormous in size 88 x 99 inches 224 x 252cm made up of 56 blocks 7 x 8.
The block is made with with a single shape the honeycomb elongated hexagon.
Linda made an eq7 project to start your own experimentation with the historic lucy boston quilt patchwork of the crosses recolor linda s pre designed quilts with your own fabrics in eq7.
Quilt the patchwork in the ditch seam line around each block 1 all solid patterns central crosses of block 2 and around each diamond strip of four in block 3.
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Cut the binding fabric into 1 1 2 strips joined into one continuous length.
The blocks are then joined with squares.
We do now stock linda franz book about the quilt on our website it is a slim but super book that gives the pattern and good instructions and a lot of the history of the quilt.