Neat Little Boxes

 

Block 1900-1920

Pattern?

Drat! It's not in the new Encyclopedia and won't be in the new

BlockBase scheduled to be out next month. In fact this is the only version I've ever seen of it.

It should be in a group of neatly geometric designs of five squares forming an X.

The pattern drafter in me loves this page.

Easy to draw---all variations on #2775

#2775

Quilt from about 1840, a long time before the Orange Judd Farmer newspaper

called it Double Cross in  1913.

Should be next to this #2777 Grecian Square

from the Rural New Yorker in 1932,

again years after this quilt.

So it has a should be number #2777.5

Relatives

At the Depot from the Clara Stone catalog about 1910

You could break up those squares with an interesting geometry.

#2796. Ruby McKim called this one

Wild Goose in 1929 but the quilt probably dates

to 1880-1900.

#2802 Crossroads to Texas or

Kentucky Crossroads

Or whatever fits in those boxes.