Citron Ladder Bands
Finished community quilt, shared by Citrine Ledger, 6 September 2026
by Citrine Ledger
Citron Ladder Bands by Citrine Ledger is a finished quilt in the Quiltler community: 84" × 96" (about a full quilt), 1680 blocks, 1680 pieces and 4 fabrics on a straight grid, plus a border, shared 6 September 2026.
At a glance
- Finished size
- 84" × 96" (about a full quilt)
- Blocks
- 1680
- Pieces
- 1680
- Fabrics
- 4
- Border
- Yes
About this quilt
Citron Ladder Bands is a 95 by 107 inch queen of Jacob's Ladder blocks. Each 12-inch unit mixes four-patches with half-square triangles so a cream diagonal steps through the darks. Fifty-six blocks fill a 7 by 8 grid, joined edge to edge so the cream rungs continue across each band. Colour stacks in three strata: two rows of Cobalt Ledger, four rows of Warm Paprika through the middle, two rows of Plum Ledger. Ledger Cream is the light in every block and the 2-inch inner border; a 3.5-inch Citron Field outer frame finishes the bed top.
Keep the darks on the same side of each four-patch so the chain holds when you join a row. Press toward the dark and nest the HST seams as you assemble each band. Four paprika rows, same rotation, should read as one warm stripe.
This suits a confident piecer who knows squares and HSTs and wants organised colour on a queen bed. Yardage for all five solids, a cutting chart, Jacob's Ladder piecing order, and the labelled three-band layout come in the download.
Make this quilt your own
Open the Citron Ladder Bands quilt in the Quiltler studio — free in your browser, or on iPhone and iPad — to recolour it, swap in your own fabrics, resize it and calculate exact fabric requirements. When it looks the way you want, download the full quilt template of your version, with the fabric list and cutting sizes worked out for you.
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