Цитата сообщения igolohka Kathryn Kerr's 365Challenge: 31 августа - 7 сентября 2017 г.

August 31

MOSAIC #15, 3″, Dark

This block is one from the Ladies Art Company (c. 1895, #343), named Mosaic #15. You’ve made it through August!!! I have a surprise for you tomorrow.

Download 31 August instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 1

LILY EMERGENCE, 12″ x 12″

A surprise for you today. The first corner flower! What a suitable welcome to spring (for us in the Southern Hemisphere, anyway).

Traditional lily blocks are usually based on eight-pointed stars (that are drafted on a circle). I have used these as inspiration for this lily, however ours can be made with half-square triangles.

The pattern is broken into four sections … and I promise to give you easy blocks for the next few days, as there is quite a bit of work in the block.

TOP FLORAL SECTION, 6″ x 6″

SIDE SECTIONS, 6″ x 6″ each

BOTTOM POT SECTION, 6″ x 6″

Note well:

Download Corner 1 REVISION instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 2

COUNTERCHANGE CROSS, 3″, Dark

An easy block today, since you are probably still working on yesterday’s flower block. This little beauty goes together in minutes!

You probably know this block as Disappearing Four-Patch, but I found that Judy Hopkins had called it Counterchange Cross in her book, 501 Rotary-Cut Quilt Blocks. I have given you two methods (neither of them Judy Hopkins’, as it turns out) for piecing the block. I think the strips method is easier, but you be the judge.

Method 1 – Strips

Method 2 – Disappearing Four-Patch

Download September 2 instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 3

CHEVRONS, 3″, Dark

Chevrons was published by the Spool Cotton Company (a brand under the merged Coats and Clark companies) in one of their pattern booklets, according to Barbara Brackman. They were actively publishing these booklets in the middle of the 20th Century, and at least one is recorded as being published in 1945; however I could not find the exact publishing date for our particular block. It was also published by Woman’s Day in August 1942. Again, I am unsure if this preceded the Coats and Clark booklet.

I have adjusted to pattern to make the lines swirl from the middle of the block, as I think it looks better this way. When it was published, that wasn’t the case. In the Woman’s Day version, the blocks were set in groups of four.

Download September 3 instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 4

AUNT DINAH, 3″, Dark

Aunt Dinah was originally published in Successful Farming in 1946. This block is one of my favourites. Enjoy.

Download September 4 instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 5

NECKTIE, 3″, Dark

Sunday was Father’s Day in Australia, so we will celebrate a belated Father’s Day, with the Necktie block.

Our version of Necktie, with the ‘tie’ part of the block made with two pieces was initially recorded in Finley in 1929, then again in Hall (1935) and later as Bowtie by Mary Ellen Hopkins (1989). The pattern, this time with four blocks set in an ‘X’ shape was published again in the Kansas City Star by Evelyn Foland in 1932. This version is easy to rotary cut and piece, so that’s why I’ve chosen it.

An earlier version of the Necktie block was published by the Ladies Art Company(c. 1895, #119); however this version uses one piece for the ‘tie’ piece of block. This version also goes by the names: Colonial Bow Tie (Grandmother Clark, 1930s – 1950s, and Grandmother Dexter, early 1930s), Peek Hole (Woman’s World, 1932), Bow Tie Quilt (Blue Ribbon Patterns, Vol2 2, 1970), and Necktie again in the Kansas City Star in 1951.

This older block is often arranged as a wreath. It was published as four blocks set in a wreath as Magic Circle (Ladies Art Company, 1897, #384), Necktie (Kansas City Star, 1929 and Nancy Page, Nashville Banner, 1932), Bow Tie in Pink and White (Kansas City Star, 1956), Dumbell Block (Nancy Cabot, Chicago Tribune, 1932), Magical Circle (Nancy Cabot, Chicago Tribune, 1933) and True Lover’s Knot (Aunt Martha Series, Quilts Modern-Colonial, c. 1954).

It can also be made a single block, with the centre made of one piece. Brackman indicates that this option was included in the Bow Tie in Pink and White pattern in the Kansas City Star, 1956; and it has also been published as Bowtie Quilt (Aunt Martha’s Favorite Quilts, Book #3333).

If anyone has a copy of the Aunt Martha booklets mentioned, I’d love to see the originals to verify these references!

Need more options? Four blocks set straight were published as True Lover’s Knot by the Ladies Art Company (1897, #262). Beyer (2009) calls the wreath-set version by this name, also; however, it is straight set in the copy of the Ladies Art Company catalogue I have, and I think this distinguishes it as a different block.

There is also a nine-patch setting that alternates large Necktie blocks with smaller ones twisted at 90°, published as Midget Necktie by the Kansas City Star in 1937; this same nine-patch setting, with the Necktie blocks all the same size was published as Joseph’s Necktie (Ladies Art Company, 1897, #145) and just Neckties by the Needlecraft Supply Company (c. 1938).

The Necktie block set in a four-patch arrangement with plain blocks was published as Dad’s Bow Tie (Grandmother’s Patchwork Quilt Designs, Book 20, 1931) and Neck Tie (Mrs Danner’s Fifth Quilt Book, 1970).

Still need more blocks? There are two blocks called Mr Roosevelt’s Necktie (one is from an unknown source, the other published by Clara Stone in 1906). The one published in Stone’s book is better known as Susannah or Oh Susannah, though.

Necktie Kansas City Star, 1932	Necktie Ladies Art Company, c. 1895
Magic Circle Ladies Art Company, 1897	Bowtie Quilt Aunt Martha Series, #3333
True Lover’s Knot Ladies Art Company, c. 1895	Midget Necktie Kansas City Star, 1937
Mr Roosevelt’s Necktie unknown	Mr Roosevelt’s Necktie Clara Stone, 1906

Many of the ‘Spool’ blocks could easily be used as ‘necktie’ blocks.

When the block is not made on the diagonal, it is known as Spool (McKim), Empty Spool, (Nancy Cabot) or Love Knot (Martha Marshall, Quilts of Appalachia: The Mountain Woman and Her Quilts, 1972) and a version of this completely broken into squares was published as The Spool (Alice Gammell, Polly Prindle’s Book of American Patchwork Quilts, 1973).

Carrie Hall published a lovely set in 1935, called both Secret Drawer and Spools; and a version with a much wider ‘knot’ is known as Fred’s Spool (Stone, 1906), Spool (McKim) or Spool Quilt(Kansas City Star, 1940).

Spool, McKim	The Spool, Alice Gammell, 1973
Spools, Carrie Hall	Fred’s Spool, Clara Stone, 1906

Oh dear, I did get carried away with the research today! Hope you don’t mind. Here’s the important part … the sewing …

Download September 5 Bowtie instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 6

GENTLEMAN’S FANCY, 3″, Dark

Continuing on from yesterday, here’s another block for our male quilters. How many do we have this year? Gentleman’s Fancy is one of the original Ladies Art Company blocks (c. 1895, #208), although it was published in Ohio Farmer in 1894, with no name, so may well have been earlier than the Ladies Art Company version. It also goes by the names: Mary’s Block (Nancy Cabot), Twenty-Four Triangles (Farm Journal), and Beginner’s Block (Needlecraft Supply Company, c. 1938).

Download September 6 Gentelmans Fancy instructions (as .pdf).

 

September 7

FOUR CORNERS, 3″, Dark

Hello to all our quilters, from the four corners of the world! Four Corners comes from Grandma Dexter Applique and Patchwork Designs, Book 4, 1932. Barbara Brackman shows Four Corners as we are making it in her reference; however, Jinny Beyer illustrates it with a Hidden Square in the corner, rather than the Puss in the Corner block. It may also be made with mitred corners for the corner unit, rather like an Attic Windows block. The rest of the block is consistent across the reference sources, though. Feel free to vary as you like!

Download September 7 Four Corners instructions (as .pdf).

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