Viola’s Beauty is a 4-color, 5-fabric quilt set on point. The quilt measures approximately 70 x 70 inches. This quilt, with the pieced sashing, would have a lot of seams. The sashing is made with shapes from a Storm at Sea collection. I have also colored a version with plain sashing and cornerstones.
This design uses the Inklingo Orange Peel Deluxe Collection and the 6” Storm at Sea Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.
Viola (DeLong) Jones Dorgan is my 2nd great aunt—Adeline’s youngest daughter and Georgianna’s sister. She was born in 1855 in Ogdensburg, NY. Viola was married twice and had five children. Her first husband was a doctor who died at a young age. Viola died at a young age as well, possibly during the birth of her youngest child or shortly thereafter. Her children were taken in by other relatives but remained close throughout their lives.
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(Download from website or print from collection) |
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For more information about Inklingo, click here. |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of the 6” Storm at Sea 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. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
Fabric 1 White |
Alabama AB | 200 | 66] 8 x 9.75″ & 1] 5.5 x 9.75″ |
Orange Peel Deluxe: 50 & 51 | |
B / BR Tri | 800 | 6” Storm at Sea: | |||
Fabric 2 Purple |
Peel | 100 | 25] 6.25 x 13″ | Orange Peel Deluxe: 36 & 37 | |
Fabric 3 Blue |
Peel | 80 | 20] 6.25 x 13″ | Orange Peel Deluxe: 36 & 37 | |
Half Peel | 40 | 5] 7.25 x 13″ | Orange Peel Deluxe” 38 & 39 | ||
Binding Strips | 8 strips | // | |||
Fabric 4 Light Green |
Alabama Beauty C | 200 | 25] 7.25 x 9.75″ | Orange Peel Deluxe: 52 & 53 | |
F Square | 40 | 6” Storm at Sea | |||
Fabric 5 Medium Green |
G HST | 160 | 6” Storm at Sea | ||
E HST – Replaces Square in Square Cornerstone at outside edge of quilt | 20 | 6” Storm at Sea | |||
A Diamond | 200 | 6” Storm at Sea | |||
Want to check my math? The Viola’s Beauty Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. |
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Additional Colorways |
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Changing the position of the light and medium green. |
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Plain sashing and cornerstones. Not quite as dramatic but acceptable. |
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How to Rotary Cut Curves Inklingo Video
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Sewing Curves Without Pins
This is how I sew curves. (I dislike pinning!) I use a 3M Command Strip pasted along the side of my presser foot to help as a guide also. You need to be sure to use your 1/4″ presser foot if you are going to use a Command Strip as a guide. When I am done sewing curves, the Command Strip removes easily from my machine bed.
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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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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. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
Fabric 1 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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Additional Colorways |
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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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