Grandmother's Pride

Here's the perfect example of ca. 1960 style

Rules:

Any color goes with any color

In a time of new dyes giving us new colors

quilters embraced every shade with enthusiasm.

The pattern:  A variation on Grandmother's Pride from

the syndicated Laura Wheeler column.

A kind of art-deco update to the fan design.

"Laura" (a fictional human being) showed a triangle at the bottom of

the design...

Which the seamstress ignored in the quilt at the

top of the page. She had some rules though.

Plains in the center patches, prints next and the

squares are all variations of geometrical plaids.

BlockBase #3341

Quilters Newsletter named it Empress in 1978.

It does look like a crown.

The Laura Wheeler patchwork patterns began in the 1930s

and were widely syndicated until the 1970s.

This one seems to have been popular.