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365 challenge: 14-20 марта 2017 г.
March 14
DIVERSION QUILT, 3″ Dark
Such a simple block, The Diversion Quilt block, published in Kansas City Star in 1945. It may have been quite a diversion from world events at that time, with four mitres! Although, in fairness to our grannies, it is less troublesome with templates than sewing with machines.
Fabric Key for Cutting
Download March 14 instructions (as .pdf).
March 15
SHADOW BOX, 3″ Dark
This is the Shadow Box block to which I referred a couple of days ago. Since I just drafted it up before checking whether it was a named block, it is not exactly the same as the original Shadow Box, from Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife, published around 1957 (cited in Beyer), and again in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine in 1974 (cited in Brackman). That block looked like:
Fabric Key for Cutting
Download March 15 instructions (as .pdf).
March 18
MOSAIC #3
Today’s Block
The name Mosaic gives away the provenance of this block. The Ladies Art Company published around twenty blocks merely given the title Mosaic and a number in 1897.
Our block is based on Mosaic #3. The original pattern is in only two colours.
Fabric Key for Cutting
Download March 18 instructions (as .pdf).
March 19
SARAH’S FAVORITE
Sarah’s Favorite first appeared in 1897, as a Ladies At Company block. Although, apparently the girl’s name is somewhat negotiable: Nancy Cabot gave it Sally’s Favorite in 1934, and in 1935, it appeared as Sara’s Favorite. I have given the name the American spelling of favourite, as it was originally published … even though I had to edit it every time, as my typing fingers wouldn’t agree!
Fabric Key for Cutting
Hands up Sarahs or Saras or Sallys who are making the quilt!
Download March 19 instructions (as .pdf).
March 20
AUTUMN FLURRIES
It’s the Autumnal Equinox today; the first day of Autumn, here in the Southern Hemisphere. Let’s celebrate with today’s block: Autumn Flurries. This is a block has been published twice by Nancy Page. The first time, as Autumn Flurries in the Birmingham News in 1940, then again in 1986, as Winged Arrows in Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine; although she mentioned that the block was known as Winged Arrows in 1940.
There is a lovely Nancy Page quote in Jinny Beyer’s reference: “The wind is blowing all four ways at once and sending these leaves … scurrying and flurrying” (Beyer, p. 68).
Fabric Key for Cutting
Download March 20 instructions (as .pdf).
BUTTERCUP
Welcome to Spring! What a wonderful time of year! To celebrate the change of seasons, today’s block is Buttercup. Try to work an exuberantly floral fabric into today’s endeavour!
This block is a modern simplification of the original pattern, published in the Kansas City Star in 1940:
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Illustration from Barbara Brackman’s Blockbase
I first came across the block in a workshop with Jackie Robinson in the 1990s when we did a quilt called How Does Your Garden Grow? from her Perennial Patchwork book. I suspect this is the Buttercup block’s first publication, as it is not mentioned by Beyer or Brackman.
Fabric Key for Cutting
Make sure you stop to smell the flowers today! Hope you have a lovely spring day.
Download September 22 instructions (as .pdf).