Scarlett Rose drafted this quilt on graph paper and colored it with marking pens after getting the block pattern from the Summer 1982 issue of Lady's Circle Patchwork Magazine. Scarlett has a very large binder full of graph paper block drawings and another big binder for possible quilt designs from her early years of quilt designing. Scarlett collected vintage quilt block patterns and has several binders full of them. This leaf block is usually credited to the 1920s era.
 
Scarlett tried to sell this quilt at one point, but no one wanted to pay $300 for it! After collecting several of Oxmoor House's annual hardback quilt books, she submitted this quilt to the publisher and it was printed in the 1993 edition of Great American Quilts along with her quilt, Stars and Their Fans. When the book went out of print, she drew Autumn Leaves in Electric Quilt 7 on her desktop computer, making it into a foundation paper pieced, or paper pieced, pattern and now sells it through her Scarlett Rose's Celtic & More pattern business as Autumn Splendor. She has over a dozen variations of how place colors for this quilt pattern stored in her EQ files and she has reused this design several times.
 
This quilt pattern was used for the background of Scarlett's quilt, Symbols & Seasons of Japan, an art quilt she designed for the 2001 Sulky Challenge. Symbols received an Honorable Mention and toured for a year to major quilt shows and conferences. Scarlett has a  smaller version of this pattern in a Christmas colorway in her UFO collection. Christmas Leaves is partially machine quilted.