Thank you for choosing to purchase and work on one of our patterns. We have become known in the industry for clear and precise instructions with many hints and tips to make your piecing life easier. However, try as we may to be perfect, sometimes mistakes get past us even when we have the patterns edited and tested by students and other designers. We really apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused you. Any mistakes that are found are immediately corrected with inserts or pattern corrections during the first printing, so it is likely that your pattern will not be affected by any mistake or omission. If it is, please refer to the corrections and suggestions found below.

Plain & Simple

Simple Sawtooth Quilt
Piece (2) rows of 32 green triangle squares each as shown below. Press toward the dark triangle each time. Repeat for (2) rows of peach squares.
 
Patchwork Strips Quilt
From each of the (4) medium and (4) light ¼ yd. fabrics:
Cut (1) 7 ¼ ” strip. Cut it into (5) 7 ¼ ” squares. Cut the squares twice on the diagonal…
 
*** Quick Fix Directions: If you have already made your hourglass blocks you can either cut them down to 6 ½” unfinished and continue with the directions of the quilt or if you have already pieced the rows, you can remove one hourglass block from each row, trim your sashings and side borders to 59” instead and either add fabric to your top & bottom borders to measure  59 ½” or recut those 2 borders.

Fresh Vintage Volume Five

Due to printer error, the directions for the Allspice Pines quilt has little boxes instead of some of the measurements. Please see here for the correct page. Click Here

 

1. BETTER MEASUREMENT: For the corner triangles measurement-
   The current measurement is okay, but it is easier if you cut 13" x 9" rectangles instead.
   
   
2. HINT/EXPLANATION: When cutting the green sashing strips, the 10" measurement given in the pattern assumes that you are measuring straight across the strip, from angled cut to angled cut. So you would lay your strip straight in front of you, cut your left hand side 60" angle, measure over 10" and cut another 60" angled cut.

   If however you are measuring on an angle with the body of a wide Omnigrid ruler, in the same manner you cut the diamonds, then the measurement you cut is only 8 ½". The length of that cut from tip to tip, then ends up the 10" [which is the same measurement as your diamond blocks should be] to which I refer in the directions.

   Which one you will better understand really depends on how you visualize things and how you think about cutting. I have found that I have as many customers to whom it makes sense one way as the other.

3. On page 4 of the pattern near the bottom, it says the words "basket block"
   oops... there is no basket, that should just read "block"."

For the supply list, you will need 1/4 for the pomegranate centers instead of 1/8 yard.

Page 2.  When adding corner G squares to the background x and z sections, only add G squares on two corners in order to complete the block “X” pattern in the middle of the quilt. Please disregard the diagram on the Z square that shows all 4 corners having G squares. That is not accurate. This is what the diagram should look like instead:

The correction concerns the cutting and amount of the Sawtooth Border as well as the size of the following Inner Border.

#1 Instead of needing 10 flying geese blocks on each side, you will actually need 11 flying geese blocks, as is pictured on the front of the cover photo.

• When cutting taupe background pieces [k], you will need a total of (44) instead of just (40) pieces. To do this you will need to cut (1) more 3" strip.
• You will also need (92) total cream squares [f] instead of (84).

#2 The Inner Border should be cut at 3" instead of the written 2 ½". This is so that the flying geese borders fit perfectly around the quilt.

Under CUTTING INSTRUCTIONS, the 5th Bullet under "From the cream lace fabric cut the following" has several errors in it. Instead it should read:
"Cut (4) 1 ¾" strips. Cut into (2) 1 ¾" x 22" pieces [M] and (2) 1 ¾" x 24 ½" pieces [N]".

On the first line of the first page the directions should read the following:

From the Cream Fabric:

For the sawtooth stars:
Star Centers: Cut (2) 7 1/2" strips. From each strip cut (5) 7 1/2" squares [X]. Need (9) total.

Sorry for any confusion: there are no pillows as a part of this pattern. The subtitle on the cover sheet is an error.

Your instructions say to cut (20) 2 1/2" wide patterns strips and that you should yield 15 from each strip set. The measurements are fine, however the amounts given will not give you enough diamonds to complete the quilt.

Cut (26) of the 2 1/2” patterned strips. You will need (14) for the center diamond panel & (12) for the border… You should be able to cut 14 sections from each strip set.