Fellow Quilters,
It’s that time again! What time, you ask?!? Time for another terrific month of Quilt Block Mania 😊. Carolina over at Always Expect Moore has rounded up 27 pattern designers, each with their take of this month’s theme of Lucky Charms. The 12” block patterns are free for a limited time on each designer’s site – simply click on the links below to collect yours.
Lucky Horseshoe by Carolina Moore
Lucky Squares at Slice of Pi Quilts
Lucky Spin by Carolyn Burgess
Charming Wreath Block by Blockofthemodotcom
Lucky Squares Improv at Love to Color My World
Luck and Sunshine
Luck o’ the Irish at Patti’s Patchwork
Simply Charmed by Cotton Street Commons
Hi My Name is Lucky by Heidi Pridemore
Swedish lucky horse by duck creek mountain quilting
Charmed Clover at Perkins Dry Goods
Charming Lucky by Puppy Girl Designs
Star Bright at Studio R Quilts
Lucky Charms by QuiltFabrication
Magically “Quilt”lious
Wishing Stars
Heart Shine 4th by Sara Flynn
Lucky Shamrock Block
Lucky Gnome
Feelin’ Lucky by Inquiring Quilter
Pastel Clover at Blue Bear Quilts
Daddy Hex by Pretty Piney Quilts
Pieced Lucky Hat
Sam’s Pot of Gold
Love and Luck by PhoebeMoon Designs
Maneki Neko by Capaquilts
The Butterfly Charm
You can also join the Quilt Block Mania Facebook group here to see all the posts and pics of blocks and quilts that other quilters have made, and to share your own projects made with the blocks. Fun!
It is interesting to see how each designer interpreted the theme – some have charm motifs, some have luck motifs, and others have Irish motifs.
Well, since my name is Irish, I had to go with an Irish theme. After all, my wonderful mother-in-law was born in Ireland! Using Carolina’s color palette I chose a variation of Triple Irish Chain, incorporating the 6 colors – light and dark pink, light and dark green (of course! It’s Irish, after all), and peach/yellow. My obvious choice of fabrics was FIGO Fabrics’ Lucky Charms, with various luck motifs printed on the fabric – horseshoes, 4-leaf clovers, wish bones, fingers crossed, acorns and rainbows. I combined it with some solids from Northcott’s ColorWorks. Here is my Luck o’ the Irish block.
Now, you may think that this block doesn’t look too exciting, however, when you put several together, the individual colors create flows through the quilt. I’m really liking how soft and pretty it is made up in Lucky Charms.
The soft colors flow and weave through this 36″ square quilt
To test my block pattern I scrounged through my meager stash and found some leftover scraps of Heather Bailey’s True Kisses collection, shipping to quilt shops next month. I substituted a dark gold for the peach and came up with this.
Luck o’ the Irish made in Heather Bailey’s True Kisses
It is definitely busier than the FIGO Lucky Charms version. I wondered how it would look in a quilt, so I whipped up a digital lap quilt.
A 36″ x 45″ lap quilt done up in True Kisses
Nice! It has a scrappy vintage feel. To reduce the bulk at the intersections I spun the seams – it lays so flat!
The back of my block – look at all those spun seams!
I need to restock my stash of True Kisses – I’ll be using it for my Hexie Crush quilt-along in April. I’ve already made the throw size in the mint colorway, so perhaps I’ll make the queen-size in the beige/crimson colorway. Sign-ups start soon 😊. I’m writing the pattern this weekend. So, I want to know – would you prefer templates or paper-piecing if you had the option? Please post your comments below.
PC263 Hexie Crush throw-size (coming soon!)
The queen-size beige-crimson version of Hexie Crush – I can’t seen to get that upper corner to be beige 😦
Speaking of sign-ups, exactly 1 year from now I’ll be boarding the ship for an 18-day quilting round-trip cruise to Hawaii. Am I excited?!?!? Oh yeah!!!!
Cruise with me next February 2022
We’ve just had 28” of snow in the past week, so Hawaii is looking really good right about now! Organized by World of Quilts Travel, this is their most popular cruise, and the perfect quilting cruise – in addition to the picturesque ports of call, the 10 days at sea will give us lots of opportunity to quilt AND relax/socialize. The cruise is almost sold out so if you’re interested in joining me please contact Deb at World of Quilts. We’ll have a blast!
Cheers,
Patti
pattispatchwork-blog.com 
this is a very pretty block. thank you for sharing. my mother was 30% Irish. I got some of the red highlights in my hair and very fair skin. Two of my three brothers had full red hair and fair skin. Our daughter and son had lots of red highlights and our son is fair of skin.
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