Here's one of the oldest pattern clippings I have:
Farm & Home magazine, 1889
"Simple and Pretty Patchwork. Sarah's Favorite. Two Colors."
In the Busy Fingers department.
I've found pictures of two examples of quilts made in the pattern of triangles and squares.
Both from about 1900.
It works better in a side-by-side set than with the sashing.
It's not in BlockBase but it should be next to 2311
#2311
Also Sarah's Favorite---just a little different---fewer triangles.
I drew it in EQ8 by importing #2311 from BlockBase
and adding a few lines. Here it is in the "two colors" that
Farm & Home mentioned. I've given it the number 2311.2
And here it is as an all over block, recolored in EQ8
Kind of interesting.
Maybe best with an alternate block of a cheetos yellow orange.
BlockBase doesn't have a lot of patterns from Farm & Home.
It must have had a small regional circulation.
I just have that one clipping.
Can one use Blockbase without EQ8? I have EQ7,but to be honest, I've never used it except for planning a dear Jane. I'd really like to buy Blockbase for all the patterns to look at. And I have this obsession of needing to see how blocks look on repeat and in different shading and even different shading.
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ReplyDeleteShannon. BlockBase is a stand alone program. You don't need EQ. It gives you the 4,000 patterns but only one set, an all-over repeat (see the QuickQuilt). I did the drawings in the post by exporting the block drawing from BlockBase into EQ and then designing whole quilts and changing colors. You might find yourself using EQ if you have a need to, and the need might be looking at what happens with sets and shading.
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