Odd Fellows March

The Antebellum Album block for September on my Civil War Quilts blog;

This new block by Denniele Bohannon

See post & pattern here:

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2018/09/antebellum-album-9-lexington-belle.html

Block from about 1885

It's one of my favorites.

And I see I have quite a few orphan blocks.

Maybe 1900

And a very skewed top with a variation from about 1850, which has some great fabrics in it.

Some of which I reproduced. The madder red print above was in one of my Civil War lines

with the center square being the repro. I had to cut out the original square and send it away to

be copied (before I had a scanner.)

Album quilt by the North Falmouth Congregational Church in 1850

See page 276 of Massachusetts Quilts for the whole glorious photo.

The Antebellum Album Block of the Month is drawn from popular friendship blocks in the pre-Civil-War years. This flying geese variation was a fashionable design for signature quilts then.

It's #2902 in BlockBase. 

I  found it published several times when I wrote my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns decades ago. And now I've found older published examples.

Godey's Lady's Book published it in October, 1858 with no name.

Here's the block.

You didn't get much information in a quilt pattern in 1858.

The Ladies' Home Journal published

Odd Fellows' March in 1894.

Did the Odd Fellows refer to the fraternal organization or the scrappy triangles?

Now that I have better information about the 1911 Clara Stone catalog I see her

Baltimore Belle design has more triangles.

A variation (geese flying in rather than out of the block) is in the corner of Charlotte Gillingham's early album (1842-3) in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/108226.html

And there are two variations in the Ella Maria Deacon quilt at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ella's is dated 1841-2 and the signers are from New Jersey.

Quilt dated 1847 and signed M.E.H.

from Forsyth's Auctions

I was surprised to find this block as a popular album design, but that square in the center is perfect for a sentiment of some kind.

Spinning Triangles

Pattern with plenty of potential. 

I found this vintage example on Camille's Pinterest Page

As a square block it's BlockBase # 2754, published in Capper's Weekly about 1930 with no name that I've been able to find.

It was in Carrie Hall's book as Spinning Triangles and here's her version

 in her block collection at the Spencer Museum of Art. She pieced it as an

octagonal block.

Eight-sided blocks are in BlockBase

as 296----

Again Evening Star from the Kansas City Star.

Evelyne Foland showed it as an octagon in the Kansas City

Star in 1930. She told readers to make an octagonal pillow, which may have

reduced reader frustration levels.

But many stitchers joined the octagonal block with a small square.

The Arizona Project found one made by Mary M. Rinehart.

Here the spacer square is blue.

There seems to be some variety in the number of triangles.

Wonderful mid-century composition: gray spacer squares

with blue triangles to fill out the edges.

I have been tempted to piece this (EPP-style over papers) but

I'd organize the triangles into square blocks with a half-square triangle in the corners.

BlockBase #2736 

"Spider Web Gone Awry"???

Great example from about 1875 to 1900

offered by French Antiques on eBay last year.

I was surprised to see the pattern in a quilt this old...

Once I started looking I found another earlier version of #2736,

this one from about 1900 in the Quilt Index,

courtesy of the Rhode Island Project. The variegated color

certainly has some appeal.

Sashing changes the focus.

I have learned the hard way (all geometry is learned the hard way for me) that the basic triangle is NOT an equilateral triangle. It is a tall triangle, which repeats into  a tall triangle.

If you begin with an equilateral triangle the block becomes a hexagon, 

Hexstatic by Ali Winston

NOT an octagon.

(In the current age of lies I am totally denying that I ever made this mistake.)

Print this out and you should have a triangle 3" tall.

An isoceles triangle. Use a half-square triangle as the second piece in the corners.

Katie Clarke Blakesly shows you the basics of piecing a simple block here:

http://swimbikequilt.com/2011/08/summer-sampler-series-evening-star.html

Two contemporary color variations by Joyce Gieszler who

calls it Grandma's Surprise.

And here's a page of isoceles triangles at Paper Pieces:
https://www.paperpieces.com/search/?q=isoceles

Bachelor's Puzzle: All Y Seams All Day

A complex pattern

Look in a corner of the quilt and here is the block:

BlockBase #2537

Bachelor's Puzzle

or Pinwheel in the Kansas City Star in the 1930s.

Easier to see the design with sashing.

A tied comforter from the Michigan Project & the Quilt Index,

by Judith Green

No Y seams if you add seams, just a lot of pieces, though.

Another way to look at it from Moore About Nancy

http://nancycabotsewalong.blogspot.com/2014/02/bachelors-puzzle-quilt-block.html

Moon Rise

A great looking quilt in chrome orange and indigo blue dots

from eBay seller gb-best a while ago. Looks about 1890-1920.

What is the pattern? I don't believe I've ever seen it before.

Looks like a big orange moon.

First I decided the block was this nine patch maybe set with a strip alternating balls, squares and triangles.

 

Or maybe this is the block, a star with a circle in the center 

Set with the same sashing.

Doesn't make much sense. 

Kind of like Clara Stone's Moon & Star but with pieced sashing?

Then I recalled my usual plan of attack, which is to look for the repeat in the corner.

Up in the top left corner right under the white border.

A nine patch with a nine patch in the center, and curves in the corner.

I drew it in Electric Quilt

It's related to those Jacob's Ladder designs that were so popular about 1900.

Repeated it 49 times.

But that's not it.

7x7 set, 12" blocks = 84" square

Tried rotating every other block 90 degrees. That's it.

It's not in BlockBase but I'm giving it a number 1798 and I'm calling it Moon Rise.

Should be on the Equal Nine Patch with Curves page.

Here's a free quilt pattern.

Cutting a 12" Block

A = Cut 2 squares 4-1/2".

B = Cut 4 squares 4-7/8". Cut each in half diagonally to make 2 triangles. You need 8 triangles.

C = Use the templates. Cut 2 each.

D = Use the templates. Cut 2 each.

E = Cut 9 squares 1-7/8".

Print this sheet out 8-1/2" x 11"

Well, years later I read the comments and see that Kathy says it's Thelma's Choice.

Here's Carrie Hall's version from the Spencer Museum of Art collection.

She might have made this up herself. It actually is in BlockBase with an odd number

H044.