Expert: Cindy Brick - 9/3/2003

Question
I am looking for the Gingersnap quilt pattern.  I believe it is a 9 patch block.  The colors go from light in the center of the quilt out to dark at the edges of the quilt in whatever color scheme you have chosen using 8-9 colors.  I have been doing online searches but have not had any luck.  Can you help?

Thanks
Jennifer
jgaw115@hotmai.com


Answer
Jennifer, thanks for writing.
  I think the problem you're having is that this is probably the name of a specific pattern by a specific company...who probably is using a Trip Around the World variation, based on your description. That does use a radiating set of squares, often from light to dark, or vice versa, for its pattern. 'Gingersnap' is not the traditional name for a pattern, to my knowledge...but something like it could have used both the Trip and Nine Patch blocks for inspiration.
  Try 'Trip Around the World'...or look it up in Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS (American Quilter's Society). Hopefully that will be it -- and then you can get started. You can easily strip-piece this...try Marti Michel's QUILTS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE TIME TO QUILT.
  Good luck to you,
  Cindy Brick

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