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

Monday, August 3, 2020

Alice Brooks Design


A block that never made it to a finished quilt,
perhaps due to a little difficulty with that lower curved piece.
As Teddy Pruett has said:
If it's impossible to piece it's Laura Wheeler or Alice Brooks.

Alice is Laura's evil twin
(and Laura's pretty darn difficult herself)

My view of the diabolical duo, the imaginary designers
for what we pattern collectors used to call 
The Old Chelsea Station Needlecraft Company.

I spent much of my lock-down time this spring finding new patterns for the new editions of my Encyclopedia/BlockBase package. I missed many Alice Brooks designs in the first and second editions.

This design would have met their criteria:
Innovative
Difficult to piece

Sure enough.
Why it doesn't have another seam in the corners to make
it a little easier to piece is a mystery.

Unless you consider the source.

You'd think they'd never pieced a quilt in their imaginary lives.

Three Patch will be in the new BlockBase and new Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns coming out soon. In case you should want to make one.

See another diatribe about Alice here.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2020/01/alice-brooks-darn-her.html

And more about the new editions here:
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-editions-encyclopedia-pieced.html

3 comments:

  1. I'm with Teddy! I would steer clear of this block. Too chicken! I love the images you chose to represent them. I have always suspected that Judith Anderson was indeed as sinister as the roles she played. Margaret Hamilton on the other hand was one of the sweetest people in the world. I babysat one summer for her grandchildren on a little island at the end of Southport. They were a fascinating family.

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