A CLOUD OF QUILT PATTERNS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN IN BLOG FORM UPDATES & ADDITIONS BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

Monday, August 28, 2017

An Alabama Pattern

Quilt by Cyatus Fowler
20th-century
Birmingham Museum of Art
Cargo Collection of Alabama Quilts

Cyatus's pattern is unknown and unusual but such smart geometry that I'm surprised I had no other examples.
Strips of squares
Strips of diamonds.

I drew it in EQ7 by making a grid of squares
and then drawing diagonals in the alternate blocks.
I erased some lines in the diamond strips



EQ sez:
The squares (A) are cut 6-1/2"
The diamonds (C) are cut from 4-3/4" strips at 45 degree angles.
Each diamond should be 9-1/4" long on it's long side.
They are really not diamonds by parallelograms, but what the heck.
B is triangles for the edges of the diamond strips.
Squares cut 6-7/8" and then cut into triangles with a single diagonal cut.



Perhaps we should call it Alabama Roads.

Here are some similar ideas but these alternate rectangles and diamonds.

Kitty Corner from Keepsake Quilting.

Here's the closest I could come in the 19th century. And it's not very close.

Last quarter 19th-century.
Susan Dague's collection. Quilted later.

Last quarter, silks.

2 comments:

  1. That contemporary quilt is available as a digital download at Keepsake Quilting. The pattern is named Kitty Corner, but they don't list a designer.

    http://www.keepsakequilting.com/kitty-corner-digital-quilt-pattern

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