This is an old one, so old that I'm unsure of the date. I know that I made it in the first few years after I was married. Micah and I were on a date in the coffee shop at Barnes and Noble, where I was browsing the quilt pattern books. I was taken by this one, the "American Beauty" pattern by Evelyn Sloppy from the book 40 Fabulous Quick-Cut Quilts. I had one of my notebooks with me and jotted down some info about the block and the overall concept of the pattern--it was long before 2012, when ...
