I have literally traveled from coast to coast in the last few months – and saw women working on this quilt on both sides of the country.  Slowly but surely the Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses quilt is quickly becoming the next Dear Jane – a quilt on every serious quilter’s bucket list!

Item #POTC  Retail $19.95

But who was Lucy Boston?  The back story to this quilt makes it irresistible!  Lucy was an English author who lived at Hemingford Grey.  You can tour the manor today.  These pictures are from their website:

The Manor is moated and is famous for its gardens that spread over four acres.  Lucy wrote a series of children’s books based on this house – known as Green Knowe in her books.  The books were illustrated by her son and include furniture, toys etc. that are still there today.  Here is a picture of the quilt in the home.

Lucy created her quilt in the 1950’s.  It is a large quilt for that time – almost queen sized.

There are LOTS of pictures on line of blocks that quilters have created for their quilts.  The blocks are created with a honeycomb English paper-piecing technique.  Fussy cutting the shapes makes every block a work of art!

These blocks were done by Paula Barnes…

Sue Daley of Patchwork with Busy Fingers has honeycomb shapes for the honeycomb English paper-piecing.

Item #ELOHEX01  Retail $5.60

These blocks are beautiful in stripes, plaids, directional prints – in short, all of the fabrics that are gorgeous but difficult to incorporate into a traditional pattern.  Why not start a group in your shop today???