Citron Dish Nest

Citron Dish Nest is a 59 by 75 inch throw of Broken Dishes blocks. Each 8-inch unit is four half-square triangles sewn cream-to-cream so a Ledger Cream diamond sits on point and the dark corners point out. Forty-eight blocks meet on a 6 by 8 grid with no sashing, and the diamonds run as one field.

Colour sits in a nest. Eight Citron Field blocks make a 2 by 4 core. Sixteen Warm Paprika blocks wrap it one block deep. Twenty-four Cobalt Ledger blocks form the outer ring of the field. A 2-inch Plum Ledger inner border cuts a dark line around the rim; a 3.5-inch cobalt outer border matches the outer dishes.

Press HSTs toward the dark and match the four cream points in every block. Keep citron to the centre two columns of the middle four rows so the nest stays a clean rectangle. It suits a confident piecer who knows HSTs and wants a graphic sofa throw with a colour map you can follow from the first seam.

Buyers get yardage, a cutting list for the 8-inch Broken Dishes, step-by-step diamond piecing, and a nest map that marks every citron, paprika and cobalt cell.