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Give It Your Best Dot

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The new project I started came from this hot-off-the-press American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine.  The pattern is called Give It Your Best Dot, for the fun polka dot fabric used in the sample quilt.

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I don't really care about all those polka dot fabrics, but I do love the block that is featured in the pattern.  No curves are involved in the piecing, but you do end up with a secondary circular design, which as you know, I am fond of.

I had a lovely stack of Civil War inspired red prints, which I thought would be perfect for my scrappy verison of this pattern.  My reds will be scrappy, but I am using just one cream off white print for the alternate color in the blocks.  I will do a narrower black containment border than shown in the example, and will do a red border.  This will be a fun quilt to have on hand during the holidays and will coordinate nicely with a few other red and white quilts you might remember me making.

Red and white snowball quilt

Red and White Snowball Quilt

Gentle Arts

Gentle Arts

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In Honor of Cherry Baskets

Drop

Drop

27 responses to “Give It Your Best Dot”

  1. I *THOUGHT* those blocks looked vaguely familiar! That quilt certainly caught my eye when I looked through the magazine when it arrived last week. I love the tweaks you’re making … the blocks themselves appealed to me, but I wasn’t a big fan of the border treatment. I can’t wait to see your version!

  2. I *THOUGHT* those blocks looked vaguely familiar! That quilt certainly caught my eye when I looked through the magazine when it arrived last week. I love the tweaks you’re making … the blocks themselves appealed to me, but I wasn’t a big fan of the border treatment. I can’t wait to see your version!

  3. I *THOUGHT* those blocks looked vaguely familiar! That quilt certainly caught my eye when I looked through the magazine when it arrived last week. I love the tweaks you’re making … the blocks themselves appealed to me, but I wasn’t a big fan of the border treatment. I can’t wait to see your version!

  4. Thank you for the information on this pattern and am glad you’re enjoying making these blocks!
    Do you have a good method for making the side center block units that have been called Peaky and Spike? I’ve always found that block unit daunting.
    Your red/cream scrappy Snowball quilt has long been one of my favorites of your many wonderful quilts. The smaller array of red table toppers are also charming.
    Red was my mother’s favorite color.
    Hugs!

  5. Thank you for the information on this pattern and am glad you’re enjoying making these blocks!
    Do you have a good method for making the side center block units that have been called Peaky and Spike? I’ve always found that block unit daunting.
    Your red/cream scrappy Snowball quilt has long been one of my favorites of your many wonderful quilts. The smaller array of red table toppers are also charming.
    Red was my mother’s favorite color.
    Hugs!

  6. Thank you for the information on this pattern and am glad you’re enjoying making these blocks!
    Do you have a good method for making the side center block units that have been called Peaky and Spike? I’ve always found that block unit daunting.
    Your red/cream scrappy Snowball quilt has long been one of my favorites of your many wonderful quilts. The smaller array of red table toppers are also charming.
    Red was my mother’s favorite color.
    Hugs!

  13. Thanks Nicole for sharing your work. I flipped past that quilt in the magazine thinking too busy for me. I suffer from not being able to visualize a quilt in other fabrics. So annoying! Your project is lovely.

  14. Thanks Nicole for sharing your work. I flipped past that quilt in the magazine thinking too busy for me. I suffer from not being able to visualize a quilt in other fabrics. So annoying! Your project is lovely.

  15. Thanks Nicole for sharing your work. I flipped past that quilt in the magazine thinking too busy for me. I suffer from not being able to visualize a quilt in other fabrics. So annoying! Your project is lovely.

  16. I marked the pattern when my magazine came last week…that red caught my eye. I am so glad to see you using civil war fabric so I am going to be watching carefully because I am going to make this pattern!!! I couldn’t have “lasted” with the pastels, not my cup of tea at all…give me RED any ole day! Keep us up to date on this project, please.
    Gloria

  17. I marked the pattern when my magazine came last week…that red caught my eye. I am so glad to see you using civil war fabric so I am going to be watching carefully because I am going to make this pattern!!! I couldn’t have “lasted” with the pastels, not my cup of tea at all…give me RED any ole day! Keep us up to date on this project, please.
    Gloria

  18. I marked the pattern when my magazine came last week…that red caught my eye. I am so glad to see you using civil war fabric so I am going to be watching carefully because I am going to make this pattern!!! I couldn’t have “lasted” with the pastels, not my cup of tea at all…give me RED any ole day! Keep us up to date on this project, please.
    Gloria

  25. Love your version of this quilt! That snowball quilt is one of my favorites too 🙂

  26. Love your version of this quilt! That snowball quilt is one of my favorites too 🙂

  27. Love your version of this quilt! That snowball quilt is one of my favorites too 🙂