This quilt is made with the 8-inch Cat’s Cradle ruler–the bigger ruler than the first original one, which stops at 4-inch blocks. Each use of either ruler produces TWO blocks, so you can vary the square color if you like. Or, if you are reversing light and dark, you could also vary what are the light triangles here. This quilt measures 64 inches square. And, of course it used a lot of my scrap stash.
Isn’t the red striped border perfect? I think so. The whole project is just so…cheerful. I’ve had this Blue Jay fabric for some time in my stash. I used it on the back of another quilt years ago. And I had enough left to use it on this quilt.
This quilt is a donation to our Charleston, SC, Tunnels to Towers project that will house 90 homeless vets. I so hope that the person who chooses this quilt (they will be able to choose) does so because it will brighten his/her day just by looking at it.
I will make another version of this quilt again–meant to be a donation quilt likely and to have a nice leader/ender project in the making. It’s easy, fun to make, is scrappy, and uses a lot of stash fabric.
PS: the 4-inch Cat’s Cradle top needs only its bottom 4 rows sewn now. YEAH!
Here it is with the blocks unsewn, except for some of the center blocks.
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