Thanksgiving Table Sixteen

Thanksgiving Table Sixteen is a Thanksgiving throw pieced from Sixteen Patch blocks in candle cream and ribbon gold. Plum velvet sashing, with cream at the crossings, divides the field; a two-inch clementine band and a three-and-a-half-inch plum border close the edge. The layout is five blocks wide and six high, each twelve inches finished, and the whole throw measures 79 by 93 inches.

Every Sixteen Patch is sixteen three-inch squares in a cream-and-gold checkerboard, like butter plates laid on a November cloth. Start with 3½-inch squares. Join four across into a strip, make four strips, and nest the seams as you sew the strips together so the checkerboard stays on grain.

Two-inch plum sashing is the dark table between those plates; cream squares mark where the strips meet. Clementine sits as a pumpkin-width band just inside the plum frame. Square piecing at this scale suits a beginner who will mind the nested joins. It lives on the kitchen settle beside the range while cranberry sauce sets, or folded on the ottoman in the TV room for the afternoon match. Buyers receive yardage for the four solids, a cutting chart for the twelve-inch Sixteen Patch, the sixteen-square sewing order, and this 5-by-6 throw plan.