Golden Glow or Missouri Daisy

A 20th-century designer pattern that was quite popular

after it was published in the Kansas City Star in 1932....

...as Golden Glow, made in gold and white, 

according to designer Eveline Foland.

BlockBase #3426

The Star pattern column published it twice.

Foland was rather innovative and she instructed you

to cut the inner petals large and then gather them.

A rework of the pattern a few years later.

Ann at Ann Quilts picked a block apart to see how it was made and it seems to have been the 1935 Star pattern.

http://annquiltsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/missouri-daisy.html

Some have more gathers than others.

Carrie Hall's version in the Spencer Museum of Art

at the University of Kansas

This one, recently quilted, was all appliqued.

The pattern remained popular into the 1960s and '70s.

Eight-sided block set with yellow squares.

You could also piece it without gathering the inner petals.

Which is how Aunt Martha told you to do it.

A variation

MooreAboutNancy has a good drawing:

http://nancycabotsewalong.blogspot.com/2013/10/missouri-daisy-quilt-block.html

No gathers.

Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts published it as Star Dahlia in 1980,

which is the name a lot of people use today.

Here's a link to a $50 set of templates:

https://www.sunsetseams.com/store/p64/%22Dahlia_Star_Flowers%22_-_Traditional_12_inch_Quilt_Block_-_SOLID_style_1%2F4_inch_seam_allowance_included__%285_pieces%29_-_Acrylic_Patchwork_Quilt_Templates.html

Broken Circle or Suspension Bridge

This complex pattern was often done in red and white

International Quilt Museum Collection

The pattern was published several times. Names

from BlockBase (#2663)

The design has many relatives but this

one has a square contrasting with the circle.

Probably first published as Broken Circle by the Hearth & Home

group of magazines in the early 20th century, collected into

the Clara Stone catalog.

Clara Butler sent a picture to

the Nebraska Farm Journal in 1909,

calling it Broken Wheel

Many were made that look to be from the 1900-1925 years

From Bill Volckening's collection

A signature top made for the Rev. Early, Brunswick County.

North Carolina project & the Quilt Index

Sashing eliminates the secondary pattern of circles.

Louise Mace Carr

WV Project & the Quilt Index

By Sally King, Left Hand, West Virginia.

WV Project & the Quilt Index

From Bill Volckening's blog

The Ladies Art Company added it to their catalog in

the twenties, bringing it to a wide audience.

Like many of these designs with spiky points and arcs,

the design probably began in the last half of the 19th century

as a Southern upland pattern.

Helen A Dollar Magraw, Neshoba County, Mississippi

From the book Mississippi Quilts.

Holstein Collection, International Quilt Museum

Pennsylvania or Maryland

Kansas City Star Pattern By Eveline Foland

about 1930.

The look changed with the emphasis on brights and prints

Tim Quilts. Tim has been hand quilting this old top.

Bill Volckening's Collection

Here's a BlockBase pattern for a 12" Block

If you sashed it like a Rocky Mountain quilt

you'd have a Rocky Mountain variation but nobody ever seems to have done it that way.

UPDATE:

Here's one with a four patch in the square---looks 1930s or '40s.

How to Make a Rocky Mountain

Matt Macomber's collection

We've been looking closely at variations of the Rocky Mountain design

over at the QuiltHistorySouth Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2427588900863781/

The pattern is unusual in that it requires both pieced block and pieced sash to

qualify. 

The block has four fan-like shapes with spiky points in the corners

Sashing continues the spiky points theme with triple

pieced strips and a pieced cornerstone, usually a sunburst with spiky points.

Without the sashing it's not a Rocky Mountain

No sash.

Triple strip sash with no spiky points in the strips.

Not a Rocky Mountain?

By Virginia Catherine Sears, Texas

Texas project & the Quilt Index

Some quilters, however, looked at the basic construction differently,

seeing this as the block

Collection of the Desert Caballeros Museum

Arizona project & the Quilt Index

Here repeated nine times side by side. No sash.

Same idea. Lotta spiky points.

The block

With additional sashing

From Julie Silber's inventory

(Also note border of spiky points)

Susan Fish McCalley, Troup County, Georgia

Collection of Merikay Waldvogel

Occasionally you see flying geese or half square triangles separating the fan blocks. Susan's

concept of the repeat is rather idiosyncratic.