A CLOUD OF QUILT PATTERNS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN IN BLOG FORM UPDATES & ADDITIONS BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

Monday, August 19, 2019

Mystery Solved

A good-looking top from the 1890-1925 period
when there was so much variety in patterns.
Shouldn't be hard to find the name and who published it.

I always go to a corner to try to figure out the repeat.
This looks like it.
But it's not in BlockBase. It's a four-patch with a lot of triangles.
A strange construction

I drew the block in EQ8.

Maybe this is the repeat.
A four patch again

Should be somewhere in here but it's not.


Maybe this is the repeat.
Nah.

If you turn it on its side this could be the repeat, a star block
with sashing almost as wide as the block.
Nah.

What if you looked at it as that rare block construction---three parallel strips?
And here it is. BlockBase#3237. Bird's Nest, published in many sources.

A consensus on name.

That's it.
Three patches are not common because they are a little awkward to draft. I redrew it again in a logical fashion for piecing. The proportions of the nine patch make it best for a block that is a multiple of 8 so here is a pattern for a 16" block


A and D are the same size but I made cutting directions for different directionality.

A - Cut a square 3-7/8". Cut in half diagonally.


B - Cut a square 6-7/8". Cut in half diagonally.
C - Cut a square 2-7/8". Cut in half diagonally.
D - Cut a square 4-1/4". Cut into 4 triangles with 2 cuts.


E - Cut a square 3-3/8".

This pattern MAY be right.

2 comments:

  1. I prefer applique to piecing any day. But, what I do love to do when I see an unusual pieced quilt is to figure out how it was assembled. I can usually get it within a minute or two. Cyndi and I have had so much fun over the years trying to recreate the though processes of the maker. This one is a doozy!

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  2. Thank you, interesting search. Copied and pasted to my computer for further thought.

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