"Flower of Spring"
or "A Tulip Pattern in High Colors"
or "Floral Patchwork"
Or "Wild Rose."
It is amazing how many of these pieced flowers from
the 1930-1970 period are out there.
Not an easy pattern to piece.
Especially since the patterns I've found weren't very good
Including mine in BlockBase which is pretty lame.
It wasn't so badly drawn in my original Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.
It looks a lot like the original but it didn't digitize well at all.
"A Tulip Pattern in High Colors"
Kansas City Star 1949
This might be the pattern people used.
"Flower of Spring" Kansas City Star 1936
Different proportions...Are there enough pieces?
And "Wild Rose" from the Laura Wheeler syndicated column in 1936---similar.
But somehow people made the quilt.
This is the best I can do for a pattern today.
Print this out 8" square. Draw some lines.
Good luck.
In the Kansas City Star, there are enough pieces because this block was applique onto a background square -- and a couplel of pieces are to be cut on the fold, thint oF them double the pat tern size. When you applique a design and then cut away the background under the motif, leaving a seam allowance, it can look as though the block was pieced, but it wasn't. You're quite right, this would be an extremely difficult block to piece, I'm not sure it could be done neatly on a machine.
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