Lady of the Lake |
She went on to say, "If you plan to piece the blocks of a dainty pastel tone combined with a matching print, the quilt is sure to be as charming and lovely as the poem, "Lady of the Lake"-it's namesake."
This is not the pattern we would think of today as Lady of the Lake and I have not been able to find any examples of a block or quilt made like Nancy Cabot's block.
I did find an old pattern entitled Galahad's Shield that has a note on it about it being called Lady of the Lake by Nancy Cabot though. The pattern is for a 12" block and is attributed to The Progressive Farmer. The quilt is to be made of 20 pieced quilt blocks to be set with 20 alternate plain white blocks and a 6" wide white border.
I made my 6" block by paper piecing it. Here are the parts-
Sew the center of the block before adding the corners-
You can download my pattern here. The Lady of the Lake block can also be found in Electric Quilt's Blockbase program as #2493.
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It's also in the Quilters Cache http://www.quilterscache.com/S/SaintPaulBlock.html. Too funny as I am currently making some partial blocks from this same pattern!
ReplyDeleteThanks! There is a pattern for an 8" block here.
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