Mrs. Cleveland's Choice

Mrs. Cleveland's Choice

BlockBase #2481

Here's a complex design that's a late-19th-century pattern

designed by a commercial source with a reference to current events.

 

The Ladies Art Company published the block as

Mrs. Cleveland's Choice. Perhaps someone asked

Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover

Cleveland for her opinion.

 In 1886 21 year old Frances Folsom

married the President who was 49.

 As a First Lady in her twenties, Mrs. Cleveland was a fashionable celebrity. The patchwork pattern named for her inspired numerous quilts.

Setting the blocks side-by-side creates a different look.

Here it is in a BlockBase Quick Quilt.

Which you could view as two alternate blocks.

A combination of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit and a block of triangles.

The Quilt Index shows the triangle quilt below documented by the Massachusetts

project that is signed Mrs. Grover Cleveland.

So this might actually be Mrs. Cleveland's Choice.

http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1D-FC-B52