Barn Door Paws

Barn Door Paws is a Bear Paw throw in Barn Red and Cornflower on Buttermilk, finished at 78 × 92 inches, with thirty twelve-inch blocks set five across and six down and two-inch buttermilk sashing between them. Each Bear Paw block is four paws around a buttermilk cross: a paw is a big barn-red square with four cornflower claws along two sides, each claw a half square triangle, and a small buttermilk square at the corner. That comes to 1,290 pieces across the quilt, most of them claws, so the pattern is written to make the claws in bulk from paired squares before any block is assembled. Press the claw seams toward the cornflower so the blue reads sharp against the cream, and keep the paws turned the same way in every block so the red squares count across the grid in a clear rhythm. The sashing gives each block room, which is what keeps this many points from feeling busy. A Buttercup inner border and an ink-black outer border finish it with a clean primary edge. It suits a confident piecer who likes a traditional block at a size that fills a bed, and who wants to see red, blue and yellow carry a whole top. The download has yardage for all five fabrics, a cutting chart, the claw method, the block assembly and a printable layout.