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365 challenge: 9 - 15 апреля 2017 г.
April 9
CRACKER
Just a few more 3″ dark blocks to go …
Cracker is a block from 1932, according to Jinny Beyer … and it’s a real cracker. Enjoy a nice, easy block, today.
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April 10
SAWTOOTH STAR
I’ve learned a new method for making Flying Geese units during the week. Here is a tutuorial. I’ve given instructions for making Flying Geese with Covered Corners, and the new method, which I call Fast Flying Geese, so that you can stick to what you know, or branch out. I like the Fast Flying Geese method, because it minimises fabric waste.
Sawtooth Star is classic old block, that everyone knows. Although I call it Sawtooth Star here, its correct name is plain Sawtooth, the name given to it in 1884 by Farm and Fireside.
There are many more names, my favourite being Nameless Star, which is how Nancy Cabot described it in the Chicago Tribune, in 1934. But, it has also gone by the names: Ann’s Doll Quilt (1933), Eight-Pointed Star (1974), Evening Star back in 1897 when the Ladies Art Company published it, Square and Points in the Kansas City Star in 1933, and Variable Star (1973).
Download April 10 instructions (as .pdf).
April 11
MOSAIC STAR
The naming of this block is very dependent on the placement of colours. While Jinny Beyer and Barbara Brackman don’t delineate the names on this basis, Maggie Malone does. Here is her schema:
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The block I have called Joining Star above, has also been known as Crystal Star, Lone Star, Peaceful Hours, Star of Virginia in Wallace’s Farmer in 1928, and Texas Star in The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, 1935
Other names under which this block has been published, but which I can’t fit into Maggie Malone’s differentiation are: Ribbon Star, Ladies Art Company, 1897 and Evening Star, a name given by Jinny Beyer in an earlier edition of her catalogue.
Hope that clears things up!
Our block most closely resembles Mosaic #10, published by the Ladies Art Company c. 1895, so I have called it Mosaic Star. Please feel free to make any colour way you like!
Download April 11 instructions (as .pdf).
April 12
ARROWS
Unlike yesterday’s block, I couldn’t find any names for today’s block. It slightly resembles a block called Blazing Arrow Point, which I hope to present later. It is an easier block than Blazing Arrow Point, so I’ve given it an easier name, too, Arrows.
Download April 12 instructions (as .pdf).
April 13
KING’S CROWN
The King’s Crown is a Kansas City Star block, according to Jinny Beyer. It was first published in 1931, and then again in 1937 under the name Thrifty Block by Nancy Page in the Chicago Tribune.
Download April 13 instructions (as .pdf).
April 14
CROWN OF THORNS
Today is ‘Good Friday’ in the Christian religions, a solemn commemoration of the torture and death of Jesus Christ. Biblical accounts give this: “They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!'” (Matthew 27:29, Bible Hub)
This is the point of reference for the name of today’s block, Crown of Thorns. The block was first published by Nancy Page in the Birmingham News on April 11, 1939.
Download April 14 instructions (as .pdf).
April 15
CROSSES & LOSSES
I hope there hasn’t been too many Crosses and Losses this month for you! Continuing on from yesterday, this seemed like an appropriate Easter Saturday block.
Yet another Ladies Art Company block, Crosses and Losses harks back to 1897. It’s also masqueraded as Bouncing Betty (Betty, stop that!), Fox and Geese and Hour Glass.
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