Aunt Vina from Richmond

The block is BlockBase #1654 with many names.

The earliest publication I've seen for this pattern is Hearth & Home magazine about 1915 when the editor asked readers to send in patterns named for the state capitals. Richmond is the capital of Virginia.

Aunt Martha in the 1930s published it as Aunt Vina's Favorite.

Perhaps Aunt Vina subscribed to Hearth and Home

 The quilts below from the Quilt Index were probably inspired by the Hearth & Home pattern so would probably date from the teens or early 1920s.

Elizabeth Mead, New York project

Michigan Project

Ruth Owens Davidson, Nebraska project

Style at the time dictated heavy sashing and blocks on the straight.

Arizona Project

Counterchange shading alternating dark on light and light on dark

The block with its checkerboard has some design potential

Becky Brown shaded it so a star is the central image. This block

is from our Civil War Sampler book. It makes interesting secondary designs in an all-over set.

I exported the pattern from BlockBase into EQ8 and tried some other ideas.

Corners shaded opposite. 36 blocks set all over style

12" Block = 72" Square.

The counterchange idea

Blocks on point was an old-fashioned idea in 1915

but this is an interesting way to make the most of the little four-patches.

84" square

Here are links to two different posts I've done on the pattern as Richmond.

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2014/08/richmond-free-quilt-pattern-for.html
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/02/6-richmond.html