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

Monday, August 31, 2020

Mystery Solved

An unknown pattern.
Kind of thing that drives me nuts.
It looks familiar.

The block? A Four Patch
But couldn't find it in BlockBase.
I posted it on the Facebook page Quilts Vintage & Antique.
They all admired it. Laura suggested I look at it as a star.

Not in BlockBase in the Four Patches: Stars



Jocelyne posted blocks she'd made from a picture she saw online
(maybe the same picture I had) but most of us agreed it had to be
a published pattern. It was so complex.


I drew it up in EQ8
And made a pattern for a 12" block by dividing it in quarters.

Print this out at 6". Add seams.

And then I remembered where I'd seen it before.


Nancy Page showed it as a quarter of the block. It's odd, filed in the Two-Patch
patterns divided diagonally.

I looked up Allentown Nancy Page in Newspapers.com.



Found it in 1935.
Too bad Nancy didn't show the whole four-patch.
A lot more people would have stitched it.

5 comments:

  1. Michele from Allentown here. I'm so glad you posted how it looks as a quilt!!

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  2. Your Blockbase drawing is quite different from the Nancy Page drawing and the quilt picture. She has an hourglass block in the corner.

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    1. I think it's just that the lights & darks are reversed - they look identical to me. Very cool block!

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    2. I drew the block from the quilt before I found the Nancy Page pattern. Also changed the proportions slightly.

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  3. The center reminds me of a cut gemstone.

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