Old Maid's Ramble With Geese

There aren't many patterns that are constructed as an X

This design of half-square triangles was popular about 1890-1920.

 BlockBase #2338 has arms of four flying geese extending out from the center point 

There are two ways to shade it.

The most common is with a dark and light contrast

but sometimes you see a dark, medium and light as in 2338b:

Vermont from the Nancy Page column in the 1930s.

Most of the time the geese are half dark & half light and very scrappy.

The Ladies Art Company called it Old Maid's Ramble about 1890

Set in a Zig Zag or Fence Rail set, from the West Virginia project

and the Quilt Index

A mid-century version 

Late 19th century

Perfect Pennsylvania? Palette 

This variation from the DAR Museum has 6 sets

of geese flying out from the center point.

From the Connecticut Project

Same pattern, different shading. If you put a little chrome orange in

the outermost geese you get a pinwheel secondary pattern.

More geese, more numbers 

From a sampler date-inscribed 1851

And sometimes the geese are flying into the center.

It may be easier to stitch the geese than count them.