QuiltingNinaSue

I threw it on the floor and turned it upside down so you can see the seams to get a better picture of the 'stop sign' block that is the pattern....octagon shape not square block.last one made the orange a red, but hope it shows the pattern better....it might be a tumbling rock pattern from the mid 1970s Quilters Magazine, summer edition 1975.

quiltmouse

Wow. I like that. I don't think the rock garden block one is quite it, either. There are HSTs in only two of it's corners.

The original quilter made the blocks with Y seams. You could get away from the dreaded Y seam.

You would piece the block not in 4 column 4 rows, but in 3 columns (A, B, C) by 4 rows (1, 2, 3,4).

Your first block is 3 columns and 4 rows of the first color, say orange.

2[SUP]nd[/SUP] block is the one with the white block
ROW 1
A1-orange/black HST
B1-green print
C1-black solid
Row 2 & 3
A1 solid orange and A2 orange print sewed to the white square (equals the 4 blocks that would be B2/B3/C2/C3)
Row 4
A4 light orange/green print HSt
B4 light green
C4 green print.
(What would have been Column D becomes column A in the 3 column 4 row unit.)
You continue on alternating orange unit with white unit.

Note. These directions are for all four rows of the orange units. The green units rows would be only rows 2 & 3 of the green units, because the orange unit top row incorporates bottom row of green unit, and orange unit bottom row incorporates top row of green unit.
Col A
a1 green print
a2 green solid
col b and c is the sq in sq
That's the green unit

the white/green unit is col A green sold & green print, with Columns b & C being the large white square.

QuiltingNinaSue

Sorry, no Y seams. Its a square within a square center....two square blocks on each side, the the top and bottom are added with the one half triangle. the white/beige square is added to join the blocks together.

quiltmouse

That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need to be Y seams. The original quilter made the green units and orange units (octagons) and joined all together with Y seams and the white squares. You can tell, because her block ends on a Half Square Triangle, all on its lonely.

QuiltingNinaSue

Thanks, quiltmouse, and you are right on avoiding the Y seams. This is as big as it will get...no more knit fabric like that, and no templates anymore. Just cannot remember the name of the pattern.

quiltmouse

I guess I'm not a good reader, I missed in your OP that YOU made it long time 'go.

I'm sorry if I came off wrong...

I like the pattern & put it on my bucket list. I cannot help with the name, as I don't remember ever seeing it.

I hope you finish it. My mom made some DK quilts in the 70s. Those things were like wearing armour, but man a live were they warm. I've thyroid issues, so have struggled to stay warm since before I can remember. (per two family stories I can think of - to mom: shut the winnon, I'm cold - to g-pa: can I sleep with you? I'm cold. He said I was warm to the touch)

QuiltingNinaSue

Quiltmouse, I have learned so much about quilting, since I made this one back then with a friend. She cannot remember the name either. I thought that someone could recognize the pattern on QB...still hoping.

Since last September I have been trying to recover my sight enough to drive and quilt again. Cataract on right eye removed in November of last year; Optice Nerve swelled up in April of this year....retina specialist helped to recover from that, while the left eye cataract kept growing larger, and will be removed on November 5th. (Same surgeon has last year) Truly hoping I have had my share with eye problems and can go back to 'normal' then.

Teddybear Lady

I have so much "double knit" as we called it back then. I got my grandma's stash as well as a little of my own. I've made a nine patch top and just throw it over the bed in the winter. I never did try to layer it and quilt it. The weight of just the fabric is warm enough in the cold winter. The colors always stay bright in these fabrics. I hope you can find the pattern and finish.

QuiltingNinaSue

Teddybear Lady, I inherited boxes of double knit and its packed into a closet. When I can see again, I hope to work on UFOs and that stash of double knits...it does not ravel out like cotton does. I do have more orange and white that could go into this quilt we are trying to find the name of the pattern, no luck yet.

sept97

how did you cut the knit fabric? I'm about to use stretchy fabric and I'm wondering if I should use an interfacing