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365 challenge: 8-12 февраля 2017 г.
February 8
Big Dipper is one of the original Ladies Art Company blocks, published around 1897. It’s gone by many other, disparate names, too. Jinny Beyer found: Bow Ties, Crazy Quilt, Electric Fan, Envelope Quilt Pattern, One Patch, Pinwheel, Triangles, The Whirling Blade and Yankee Puzzle.
Most significantly for us, it has also been called Hour Glass, which harks back to yesterday’s block, revealing where its name originated. Have fun putting Big Dipper together today, while you practise quartering squares!
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February 9
This block was called The Practical Orchard when the Ladies Art Company included it in their catalogue in 1897. Although Clara Stone named it Hour Glass II in the Kansas City Star in 1906, Nancy Cabot reinstated the original name, Practical Orchard, in the Chicago Tribune, June 5, 1934. I can’t see the link with an orchard … can you?
These original versions of the block had plain patches in the corners; but, I’ve added some Half-Square Triangles for interest.
Fabric Key for Cutting
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February 10
Good old Ohio Star! I’d bet there are not many of you that haven’t turned out one or more of these, or its many variations, over the years.
The history of the name of this block is fascinating. Jinny Beyer found that it was first known as Godey Design in 1862, when it was published in Godey’s Lady’s Book, and later in 1897, Ladies Art Company adopted the uninspiring moniker, Eight Point Design. It wasn’t until 1927, in Capper’s Farmer, that it was known as Ohio Star, although it was known in the Eastern US as Variable Star around the same time (Quilting in America, Beyer). This was also the name adopted by Nancy Page when she published it in the Birmingham News in 1935 (Beyer).
The block was always associated with the Western US, though, and when the annexation of Texas was an issue in the mid-1800s it was lassoed into the political debate and alternatively called Texas Star, Texas or Lone Star, depending on your affiliation (Allen, Quilting in America). This block was also purloined by the presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler in 1840, when it was associated with the slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler Too (Harrison was famed for a victory against the Indians in a 1911 battle at Tippecanoe) (Quilting in America).
That’s only a fraction of the names by which this block has been known. You might be familiar with Aunt Eliza’s Star, Flying Crow, Mystery Flower Garden, Star of Hope … it’s a long list.
Download 10 February instructions (as .pdf).
February 11
This block is one of the many variations on the basic Ohio Star. It is Chained Star by Margaret Huckeby, from Quilter’s Newsletter in 2000. A recent block! Well, recently published; I’m sure it’s been around forever.
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February 12
A Design in Geometrics harks from the Kansas City Star, October 24, 1959. It is our last Quarter Square Triangle practice before attacking something else!
Download 12 February instructions (as .pdf).