Bleeding Heart or Violet Blossoms

Four orphan blocks,

a variation of a complicated pattern.

Based on the same structure as the Turkey Tracks in the last post.

BlockBase #2668, Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune called it Violet Blossoms,

The Ladies Art Company--- Bleeding Heart

The center square in a square goes around three times in the BlockBase drawing

But the examples I have only go around twice.

Nettie Freier from the Michigan Project

Two late-20th-century examples from the Quilt Index.

Golda Stone Caudill from the Indiana Project

None of these match my drawing.

Here's a simpler version, but that's not quite it either.

Maybe all these quilts were inspired by Carrie Hall who showed her

block in her book Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America in 1935.

Here's her beautifully pieced block in the Spencer Museum of Art.

Here's a quick quilt of #2668

Modified to Carrie Hall's simpler version.

It would be challenging to piece, But you could just wing it in applique.