By Louiza Gibson Simmons from the files of the Birmingham Public Library
& the Alabama Decorative Arts Survey.
Here's one of my favorite concepts. A pineapple appliqued of dots
(or maybe it's a pomegranate since pineapples don't have visible seeds).
Whatever the fruit it's a perky pattern
From the Texas project---with sashing.
Quiltmaker Mary Louise Hammonds Bollman told interviewers she'd inherited an old quilt in the design and made this reproduction in 1937.
But before you get to thinking it's a Southern design....
Someone posted this sad version seen at a sale in New York
Online auction. Basic four-block
Most look roughly 1840-1880.
Design characteristics----
- Central Floral
- Identical 4 arms extending diagonally
- A fruit with dots and a scalloped edge
Three of the four above have the same leaves.
Here's one in a pot, date-inscribed 1859. Perhaps quilted later.
I first noticed the dotted fruit in a group of quilts
from Garrard County, Kentucky, like this one in the collection of the
Denver Art Museum.
Although they are not set as all over block repeats.
Similar Kentucky quilt from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The pineapples sometimes go over the seam lines.
A digital sketch. Double the size for an 18-22" block.
See more about the Garrard County quilts and related patterns at this post:
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/garrard-county-kentucky.html
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