I am looking for a pattern called "Lover's Links" - Here is a photo of one that was posted on this board, but the gal thought she got the pattern from McCalls Quilting.

I looked at every McCall's pattern, but it's not there.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

wow, cool pattern

Yes, I think so too! I would use it for my photo memory quilts I make for my family.

Yes, I think so too! I would use it for my photo memory quilts I make for my family.[/quote]

This would be a great pattern for a photo quilt. I have no idea what the pattern might be, though ...

It's on page 24 of McCall's Quilting August 2000 and it's designed by Robert Callaham, I found it just by chance in my closet!

If you can't find it, honestly it would be very easy to break it down into two different blocks on graph paper.

nice quilt

Under the picture topic katieranch posted pics of quilts she made. One is like this quilt. It is under" quilts I have made #3". Maybe she can help you with pattern. Just trying to help a fellow quilter.

Cute pattern

Hang on, I did that one for my GD and think I still have the info on the pattern...OK, it is McCalls from August 2000. I hope you can find the magazine from their web site!

Looks pretty easy if you break it down into 2 blocks. I bet you could do it without a pattern.

Thanks! I went to their web site, but unfortunately their magazines only go back to 2008. Any idea how I could get the older magazine?

Maybe ebay? Do a google search for the name and date of the magazine? Or maybe someone on the QB would be willing to sell it to you or give it to you?

Check if your local library has that magazine or can get a copy of it from another library.

Sue

could someone post the size of the blocks from the pattern if they have it?????

To me, the quilt needs to have one more vertical row added to the right side....or am I nuts this morning?? Very interesting pattern though, I'll have to keep the photo in my file for another bucket list item. Will probably do a scrappy.

I remember this pattern from somewhere. If you break it down, the 'star' block is a scrappy 4 patch center with constant colour flying geese making the star points and then scrappy corner squares. It would be an easy 12 inch block. The secondary block is only half the size in width--two scrappy squares on the top, one background square the same size as the 4 patch center in the first block, then two more scrappy squares on the bottom.

At least that is the way that my eyes are seeing it. Easy to draw out on graph paper or in EQ.

I see this as a row quilt. If you use 2 (3) inch finished colored squares, then your white center block would be a 4 (6) inch finished square. The longer white square would be cut out as 8.5 x 4.5 (12.5 x 6.5) inches, then snowballed with a 2.5 (3.5) inch square to produce a 4 x 8 inch (6 x 12) rectangle. The colored 4 patch corners finish at 4 (6) inches. This quilt could be made any size block you want. Just count the squares in each section and multiply by your number. I started with either a 2 or 3 inch. It could easily be a four inch to highlight a specific fabric.

Please excuse the wobbly lines. I am in awe of anyone that can draw straight lines in Paint on a laptop.

I looked at the pattern again, and still using the same measurements as above, I redid the blocks as 12 inch square blocks. The quilt as shown would only be 36 inches square and would still need another set of the 4" wide snowballed blocks down the right side and the bottom, which would bring the size up to 40". If you use 18" blocks, which would be 3 inch squares, then the finish with the extra 6 inch borders would be 60 inches squares. 4 inch squares would give you 24" blocks, with 8" extra borders would give you 80" square. This probably "clear as mud". And now you know why I don't write quilt patters. lol

If I'm not mistaken, this is the same free pattern by Maywood Studio-Coastal Getaway. The colors need to be worked out so it will look like your picture. I found it free online.

http://www.bearcreekquiltingcompany....ood_Studio.pdf

You are right. The major difference is that the larger white pieces in the quilt appear to be one piece and the ones in the pattern are multi pieces. I would never have thought to make the blocks that way. Of course, I was focusing on the white as being a single piece of fabric. And they did use 2 inch finished squares just as I thought to begin with. Good find.

Wow!! How different it looks on Toogie's link, but yes, it is the same layout.

Thank you all for your help.