Arkansas Centennial

 

Joyce's block certainly jumps off the cover of

the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.

We asked stitchers to choose a block and send it in. Hers

is #2765 published in the Kansas City Star in  1937

as Arkansas Centennial.

#2765 is an unusual block, all curved seams, a variation of Kaleidoscopes with straight sides

but more challenging.

Arkansas Centennial has a few cousins with eight curved seams meeting in the center.,

See posts on pattern relations here:

https://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2020/10/wheel-of-mystery.html

https://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2020/03/kaleidoscope.html

But not many people other than Joyce seem to have attempted this design.

A quick quilt from BlockBase shows a secondary

pattern in the corners.

12" pattern from BlockBase

Arkansas Centennial certainly looks good on the cover.

Thanks, Joyce.