An Alabama Pattern

Quilt by Cyatus Fowler

20th-century

Birmingham Museum of Art

Cargo Collection of Alabama Quilts

Cyatus's pattern is unknown and unusual but such smart geometry that I'm surprised I had no other examples.

Strips of squares

Strips of diamonds.

I drew it in EQ7 by making a grid of squares

and then drawing diagonals in the alternate blocks.

I erased some lines in the diamond strips

EQ sez:

The squares (A) are cut 6-1/2"

The diamonds (C) are cut from 4-3/4" strips at 45 degree angles.

Each diamond should be 9-1/4" long on it's long side.

They are really not diamonds by parallelograms, but what the heck.

B is triangles for the edges of the diamond strips.

Squares cut 6-7/8" and then cut into triangles with a single diagonal cut.

Perhaps we should call it Alabama Roads.

Here are some similar ideas but these alternate rectangles and diamonds.

Kitty Corner from Keepsake Quilting.

Here's the closest I could come in the 19th century. And it's not very close.

Last quarter 19th-century.

Susan Dague's collection. Quilted later.

Last quarter, silks.