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Monday, July 22, 2019

Bowtie Pieced in Strips: Strange Fashion

Strip quilt in an unfamiliar design.
Looks to be early 20th century.

It's obviously a bowtie.
But constructed in strange fashion

A square, two long hexagons
and then two truncated triangles on the sides.

Paper piecers?

4 comments:

  1. This is a super cool block. I think the lozenges (elongated hexies?) could be created using 3 squares and the 'flippy corners' method. You would have to trim the excess triangles. I am not sure what to do about the ends of the bowtie. Those pieces would be a challenge to cut, if not to piece.

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  2. They might be done with the "3D" method, which uses all squares. It is basically a 4-patch with an addition. But the interesting part is that one bowtie block becomes the corner of the next one. That might be a bit fiddlier to piece.

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  3. It's certainly an interesting puzzle

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