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Jack’s Delight is one of Clara Stone’s blocks from Practical Needlework: Quilt Patterns, 1909.
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This is one of Nancy Cabot’s blocks, published in the Chicago Tribune in 1936 as Attic Windowsand in 1938 as Garrett Windows.
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Union is the name given to today’s block by the Ladies Art Company (#120, c. 1895). Other slight deviations to this name were Union Block (Nancy Cabot) and Union Square (Carrie Hall, 1935).
You may also know it by An Effective Square (Ladies’ Home Journal, 1899) or Four Crowns (Kansas City Star, 1933).
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I adore this block, with its half-and-half colouring. It is recorded by Maggie Malone (2003), but she makes no other notes about its origin. There are two other bocks called Massachusetts:
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Today’s block was one presented by Laura Wheeler through the Old Chelsea Station Needlecraft Service, and also through Sioux City Journal, 1940.
Those old quilters had a sarcastic sense of humour! This is the original block:
Our version is a simplification of this:
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T’was the night before Christmas ….
This block was published twice by Nancy Page: as Bethlehem Star in the Birmingham News in 1939, and earlier as Christmas Star in the same newspaper in 1934. The piecing differs slightly for the two patterns: Bethlehem Star has triangles at the corners, while Christmas Star has a square.
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