Lucy Boston was born in England in 1892, and lived to be 98 years old. She designed and made at least twenty amazing patchworks in her long life, but she is more famous as the author of the Green Knowe children's books, for her ancient manor house and garden near Cambridge in England, and for her long, creative old age.

Lucy Boston published her first books when she was in her sixties, and she continued to write, sew, and garden when she was in her nineties. She was an extraordinary person, and still inspires affection and admiration today.

My pattern book for The Patchwork of the Crosses (POTC) was prepared with the gracious assistance of Diana Boston (Lucy Boston's daughter-in-law), and is illustrated with photographs by Julia Hedgecoe.

Click the block to see a slide show of a few of the spectacular POTC blocks made by Kathy Timmons and Joan Cumming. If you would like to see even more, please join the Inkingo Yahoo group.

Lucy Boston sewed all of her quilts with the method known as English Paper Piecing, but Inklingo makes her designs faster and easier to achieve with a running stitch by hand, or by machine. Many of them are available in Inklingo collections (scroll down).

Click on the covers below for more information about each book and download, and please be sure to see the entries related to Lucy Boston on the All About Inklingo blog.

I am delighted to offer Diana Boston's beautiful book about all of Lucy Boston's Patchworks too. This reprint of the 1995 edition is a classic, and belongs in the library of every quilter. Scroll down to see which shape collections you need for her designs.

All prices in US dollars.

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In The Patchworks of Lucy Boston:

• The Passacaglia Patchwork
    Free collection (9 inch blocks)
    or 6-inch LeMoyne Star collection (12 inch blocks)
    Tilde's free Passacaglia Table Runner was inspired by this one.

• The Keyboard Patchwork 
    Inklingo KISS 103  (octagons and squares)

• Ron Lewcock's Constellation 
    Free collection 
    or the 6-inch LeMoyne Star collection

• The Huckabuck Patchwork
    One-inch 60 degree hexagons  (also on the Inklingo # 1 CD - almost sold out)

• The Silk Cot Cover  and Toby Hemmings' Cot Cover and Kate's Stars  
    Inklingo # 3  (1.5 inch diamond)

• Margaret Clark's Ohio Stars 
    Tri QST 00B (1.5 inch QST)
    or the Inklingo # 2 CD (sold out)

• Colin Tilney's Wall Hanging 
    1.0 inch Hexagon 90°  Lite # 4 (90 degree 1 inch hexagon, etc)

• The Patchwork of the Crosses 
    1.0 inch Hexagon 90° Lite # 4 (90 degree 1 inch hexagon and other shapes)
    1.5 inch Hexagon 90°  (150% of original size)

A picture is worth 1000 words?  Monkey says two or three minutes of video is even better.