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365 challenge: 8-13 марта 2017 г.
March 8
SPOOL AND BOBBIN
A quilter’s block if ever there was one! Spool and Bobbin is our project for today. It’s a Nancy Cabot block, published in the Chicago Tribune on May 15, 1936. It develops an interesting secondary pattern when repeated:
Fabric Key for Cutting
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March 9
ART SQUARE
Art Square is another very old block, first published by the Ladies Art Company in 1897. Over the years it has also gone by the aliases of Dottie’s Choice, Four Square and Village Square.
Fabric Key for Cutting
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March 10
SPINNER
Here’s a spinner to match anything from Warney. This is a block from Nancy Page, first published in the Birmingham News in February 1935. It was identified as Brave World, or Forest Paths in the 1945 silver anniversary edition of Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife though, according to Jinny Beyer.
Fabric Key for Cutting
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March 11
MARCH BASKET
I know you won’t believe it, but this is not one of the 86 baskets identified by Jinny Beyer, and it’s not on Barbara Brackman’s list either! It’s jut one I invented for you.
Fabric Key for Cutting
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March 13
ATTIC WINDOW
For the rest of March, I want to quickly cover a swag of essential techniques, so that I can throw just about anything at you in April!
Every quilter needs to know how to mitre corners. Don’t groan, it’s not that bad. After a couple of blocks you’ll be a mitre deamon, and be champing at the bit to mitre every border you construct from now on! Make sure you’ve read the tutorial.
Today’s block is variously known as Attic Window and Shadow Box. It looks great in a repeated pattern:
Jinny Beyer asserts that these names don’t apply, and that it should be known as New Pattern, as it was called in Peterson’s Magazine in 1857, or simply Cross as Hall published it in 1935. True, New Pattern is (ironically) the oldest … but, I don’t think either of these names convey the three-dimensionality of the block.
We have another block coming up called Shadow Box … so, I’ve gone with the relatively recent name, Attic Windows, as given in Abstract Design in American Quilts by Jonathan Holstein at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, in 1971 (cited by Brackman).
Fabric Key for Cutting
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