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

Monday, August 21, 2017

Mrs. Cleveland's Choice


Mrs. Cleveland's Choice
BlockBase #2481

Here's a complex design that's a late-19th-century pattern
designed by a commercial source with a reference to current events.

 
The Ladies Art Company published the block as
Mrs. Cleveland's Choice. Perhaps someone asked
Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover
Cleveland for her opinion.

 In 1886 21 year old Frances Folsom
married the President who was 49.



 As a First Lady in her twenties, Mrs. Cleveland was a fashionable celebrity. The patchwork pattern named for her inspired numerous quilts.






Setting the blocks side-by-side creates a different look.

Here it is in a BlockBase Quick Quilt.

Which you could view as two alternate blocks.
A combination of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit and a block of triangles.


The Quilt Index shows the triangle quilt below documented by the Massachusetts
project that is signed Mrs. Grover Cleveland.

So this might actually be Mrs. Cleveland's Choice.

http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1D-FC-B52

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