Quilt Pattern: Crossed Canoes

You will not be getting into very deep water if "Crossed Canoes" should be your selection for a quilt to try. There are only three seams to each quarter block as you can see by the small sketch, then the fourths sew together into a 14- inch square.

These blocks set together with white lattice strips about 3 inches wide with the dark boats pointing one way and the white ones forming an opposite diagonal pattern across the quilt. With a 3-inch border top and bottom, 25 blocks set together with 3-inch strips between will finish about 79 by 85 inches. A third color, red print for instance, could be used for the four dark triangles, leaving blue only on the four large parts here marked blue.

In cutting allow a seam all around in addition to the sizes here given. Diagram A shows how an acute angle is trimmed, rather than extend it away past the line marked by your cardboard pattern. This quilt will require 3 1/2 yards of blue and 5 1/2 yards of white.

An Anchor would be clever in design to quilt on the alternate blocks.