Friendship Garden

You gotta love a quilt pattern that gives you a spot for a big red dot.

It's not a traditional 19th-century pattern but one of those designer blocks from

the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicate about 1935-45.

BlockBase # 3597

Friendship Garden

It's one of their signature designs that create secondary patterns in the corners

Also gotta love the fabric choices of the 1950s & '60s

Allena Maphet Elder, Texas, 1960s

From the Wyoming project & the Quit Index

http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=51-8C-3AB

The center shape is an octagon and the corner shape can be seen as a curve

or two straight lines.

It presents some piecing challenges as you can see.

I saw the corner dot as a curve in BlockBase.

Here's a QuickQuilt of 16 blocks.

The BlockBase pattern would be easier with another seam, so I exported

3596 to Electric Quilt and drew a corner seam.

And had EQ8 draw a corner of a 15" block  to give us templates.

Print this on an 8-1/2" x 11 sheet of paper.

The quarter of the block is 7-1/2" finished.

I had so much fun with this block I decided to draw

a whole Block of the Month for next year based on

the basic geometry. Will probably start in the summer.

Daredevils

(Not for the faint-hearted.)

See other variations on the pattern:

http://fieldguidetoquilts.com/4Curve/4CCArc/4CCArc1diagrams.html
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