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

Monday, December 17, 2018

Unusual Twin Sisters


An odd repeat

And hard to figure out the block...

but here it is with seam lines
BlockBase #2314
Twin Sisters

Selma & Patty Bouvier
Marge Simpson's Twin Sisters. 
It's just strangely colored like Selma and Patty.



Published pattern names include Twin Sisters, Pinwheel and Waterwheel
among other.

The seams intersect as an X in the center.

The Nancy Cabot column in 1933 in the Chicago Tribune invented
a sad story of a pair of twins---one of whom died before
her wedding---hence, the name.
I doubt the tale, however.


There's a lot of design potential

Here it is set in strips diagonally.
You can see what can happen when you set strips diagonally.

A few years ago the SewWhatevers made this little top in the
pattern from some William Morris prints.

https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2013/08/twin-sisters-in-morris-modernized.html

No comments:

Post a Comment