Quilt Pattern: Dove in the Window

Dove in the Window is rather an intricate block to piece but a charming and unusual one when done. It finishes about fourteen inches square, suitable size for a patchwork pillow. If used for a whole quilt, set the 25 blocks together with 3-inch strips of pieced sand and white with 3-inch squares of sand color or tiny pieced nine-patches at all intersections.

As with the others in our patchwork series this gives exact size of finished parts; trace these sizes on the wrong side of the cloth, then cut a seam larger sewing back to the line.

The quilt sets together 5 blocks wide by 5 blocks long, with strips 3 inches wide by 14 inches long joined with the squares at the end of these strips. These strips are cut 1 3/8 inches, two of sand and one of white to go between them. With seams off from sewing them together, they appear between blocks 3 inches wide. A 3-inch border all around the pieced center may be of the sand color with binding of rose or blue.

Material Estimate: Twenty-five pieced blocks, 40 pieced strips and 16 3-inch squares will finish about 82 inches square. Material needed is 1 1/2 yards of rose, 1 1/2 yards blue, 2 yards sand and 4 1/2 yards of white, a total of 9 1/2 yards.