Quilt Notes: HOPSCOTCH is illustrated in Maggie Malone's 1001 PATCHWORK DESIGNS, Sterling Publishing, 1982, but without templates. Barbara Brackman's ENCLYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS lists two different designs for HOPSCOTCH, this one appearing in issue #70 of "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine," which began publishing in 1969.

To "scotch" means to score with lines, so striped fabrics and plaids are fun to use with this design. As most will know, "hopscotch" is a children's game, mostly played by girls, where each player tosses a stone or small object into the numbered spaces of a rectangular pattern chalked on the ground, and then hops or jumps into and out of the spaces to retrieve the object.