T or Tea

 

1898.5 T or Tea Quilt

from Comfort magazine

Here's a nine patch I found in Comfort magazine

and added to the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

and BlockBase+. Published in 1911. Found the pattern in Villa Nova University's

periodical collection.

Figured out the seams and sent it to the programmers

at Electric Quilt.

Comfort was a women's magazine, quite popular in its day.

It published many quilt patterns in the 1890-1940 years...

usually picturing the small diagrams used at the time,

this often repeated page published in 1938

And many times, a bad photo of a block

a reader had sent in.

Some better than others, 1910.

But the editors knew what they were doing. Comfort

was the first magazine to have over 1,000,000 subscribers.

It's not that exciting a block but I thought the name

T or Tea was important to include as it is a possible

reference to the Temperance movement.

I thought I'd do some shading in EQ8 so I exported the design and shaded it with some Ladies' Legacy fabrics.

Here it is with 3-inch sashing, the same size

as the center cross in a 12" block.

Then I set blocks all over, block to block.

It makes its own sashing

as these 9-patch blocks with a cross in center often do.

It then becomes a version of this other nine patch---the much more popular Capital T block---with more seams.

#1660

So in your Encyclopedia book under #1660 write, See #1898.5 (and vice versa.)

Sometimes it helps to see the big picture.