Queenie’s Beauty

Published 19 April 2014

Queenie’s Beauty is a 3-color, 3-fabric quilt set on point. It measures approximately 79 x 79 inches. It is one of my more complex designs with different colorings for 2 of the 3 blocks. It also uses blocks you don’t see very often—Improved 9 Patch, Alabama Beauty and Drunkards Trail. Using Inklingo to print the templates on the reverse of the fabric makes sewing these blocks a piece of cake.

This design uses the Inklingo Orange Peel Deluxe Collection and the 4″ Drunkards Trail Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.

When I named this quilt, I didn’t have a Queenie in my family tree. [There are a couple of letters where I had to pick other names to use that weren’t in my tree.] Earlier this week, I was copying some Canadian land grant records to my research and saw a birth record for a Queenie Isabella Duthie born in 1911. I know I’m related to her because I recognize some of the other names in a partial online tree that included her, I just don’t know how we are related yet. Queenie married someone named Fairservice and she died in 1992 according to the online tree. I think she wanted me to find her so she could claim her quilt.

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Queenie’s Beauty 79 x 79 inches
9020-444 Toscana Got the Blues		9020-93 Toscana Going Gray		9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence

Purchase and download:
Inklingo Orange Peel Deluxe Collection		Inklingo 4″ Drunkards Trail		Drunkards Path Design Book
The Inklingo Handbook			Cheat Sheet (Download from website or print from collection)
For more information about Inklingo, click here.

Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of the 4” Drunkards Trail Collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section *“Planning a Quilt”* in the Inklingo collection.
Fabric	Yardage	Shape	# of Shapes	Cut & Print	Page # in shape collection
Fabric 1 Blue		Background Quarter	68	17] 5.5 x 9.75″	OP Deluxe: 40 & 41
		9 Patch Corner	68	2] 7.5 x 12″ & 1] 5.5 x 12″	OP Deluxe: 56 & 57
		9 Patch Square	17	1] 7 X 8.5″ [Prints 3 extra]	OP Deluxe: 60 & 61
		Peel	64	16] 6.75 x 12″ LANDSCAPE	OP Deluxe:36 & 37
		Alabama Beauty C	52	5] 7.25 x 9.75″ & 1] 7.25 x 14″	OP Deluxe: 52 & 53
		Pie Shape	148		4″ Drunkards Trail:
		Background Half	40		4″ Drunkards Trail:
		Binding Strips	9 strips	//	//
Fabric 2 Gray		9 Patch Side	68	2] 7.25 x 12″ & 1] 3.5 x 10.5″	OP Deluxe: 58 & 59
		Alabama Beauty C	12	1] 7.25 x 14″	OP Deluxe: 52 & 53
		AB Combo	36	12] 8 x 9.75″	OP Deluxe: 50 & 51
		AB Combo – A ONLY	16	4] 5 x 10.75″ LANDSCAPE	OP Deluxe: 50 & 51
		Peel	24	6] 6.75 X 12″ LANDSCAPE	OP Deluxe: 36 & 37
		Half Peel	56	7] 7.25 X 13″	OP Deluxe: 38 & 39
		Arc	208		4″ Drunkards Trail:
Fabric 3 White		Peel	68	17] 6.75 x 12″ LANDSCAPE	OP Deluxe: 36 & 37
		Alabama Beauty C	52	5] 7.25 x 9.75″ & 1] 7.25 x 14″	OP Deluxe: 52 & 53
		AB Combo	64	20] 8 x 9.75″ & 2] 5.5 x 9.5″	OP Deluxe:50 & 51
		AB Combo – B ONLY [print mirror image of A ONLY]	16	4] 5 X 10.5″ LANDSCAPE & MIRROR IMAGE	OP Deluxe: 50 & 51
		Background Half	64		4″ Drunkards Trail:
		Pie Shape	60		4″ Drunkards Trail:
Want to check my math? The Queenie’s Beauty Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF.

Additional Colorways
The Original Colorway I didn’t use fabric samples for the original design and liked the Delft Blue look. I couldn’t quite duplicate it in the fabric swatches in Electric Quilt so I switched tactics and went with some completely different colorways
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