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

Monday, September 4, 2017

Square in a Square Blocks

A quilt from about 1880 shown in Roberta Horton's book Scrap Quilts

BlockBase #2470

The pattern's been published several times with the uninspired name of
Mosaic---perhaps derived from a floor tile. 


A slightly different proportion, a different number:
"The Road to Paris"
It wasn't a popular design.


But add more pieces to the center:

And it's easier to find examples made about 1900.
Earliest name is probably Jack in the Pulpit from Clara Stone
or Double Squares from the Ladies Art Company.

1880-1900


Different proportion, different number
This one was named The Dewey for Admiral George Dewey
who defeated the Philippine navy in 1898.

Dewey was so popular that BlockBase has
5 patterns named for him.
But we've forgotten him---so much for cultural memory.
Most of us would
call the pattern Jack in the Pulpit

Pattern from Clara Stone catalog,
1906.
I found this picture at the Quilt Index, which also 
included the copy:
"May be in two or three colors, as one happens to have the pieces. It is a nice pattern for an album quilt, writing name, town, county and State in the white half-squares surrounding the center block. It is prettiest all of pieced work, but may be set with plain squares of white or light goods, with strips, or in diagonal sash-work. C. A. S. Holliston, Mass."

A signature version. I bet they got the pattern from C.A.Stone.


Mary E. Beardslee Durkee, about 1870. Collection of the 
Museum at Michigan State University. # 1999:12.6

http://museum.msu.edu/museum/tes/quiltsoldnew/Exhibit%205.htm

In BlockBase you can right-click on the block and
choose Quick Quilt. The program shows you
how it would look set all over.

Mid-20th century


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