Quilt Pattern: Rambler

This is the Rambler, an old-fashioned favorite which pieces a block about 12 1/2 inches square, if seams are allowed extra. It is clever either as a patchwork pillow or for a quilt top set together with alternating white blocks, the roses spotting color, and the triangle leaves rambling in formal pattern diagonally across the quilt.

To piece, sew four small white triangles onto the center square of rose. Then piece the four other squares of a pink and a green and four small white triangles. Complete by making the diagonal center strip and two large corner triangles into the finished square.

Material Estimate: In making this quilt, 21 pieced blocks are set together with 21 plain white 12 1/2-inch squares. Six blocks wide by 7 blocks long, finishes about 75 by 87 inches. This quilt requires 1/4 yard rose, 1/2 yard pink, 1 yard green, 6 1/2 yards white, or 8 1/4 yards in all.

Butterflies would be exquisite on all of the plain squares between ramblers, or a 10-inch Feather Circle would be effective and considerably less work.