[372x512] Star and Cross was first documented by the Ladies Art Company (#284, c1895); however, like so many of their patterns, it appeared much earlier. Lockport Cotton Batting Co noted in their description of the pattern from their 1940s batting wrapper that it is “truly an antique in every sense of the word … the original quilt from which this pattern was taken was made over 95 years ago”. This would have dated the original quilt in the 1830s.
The Ladies Art Company have brought us yet another block! This one is Domino and Square(#278, 1897). Today’s block was also published under the names: Domino and Squares (the plural) by Nancy Cabot and Building Blocks (Needlecraft Supply, c 1938).

Вы готовы бросить себе вызов на весь 2017-й год и шить каждый день по одному блоку? Тогда присоединяйтесь к Кэтрин Керр и ее проекту 365 challenge!
Вы сошьете 365 блоков в традиционных техниках, размером 6 и 3 дюйма. Уверены, к концу проекта вы станете настоящим асом лоскутного шитья!
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For those of you who find the January block too easy, here’s an alternative: Year’s Favourite, from Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife, 1945. Give it a go!
1 gennaio Bonus TRADOTTO ITALIANO
kindly translated by Lilliana Soli of Fantasy Quilt.
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Thank goodness we don’t have to churn our own butter these days! Surely that’s the work the Ladies Art Company were lamenting when they named this block in 1897. Jinny Beyer found two instances of the block being called Picture Frame, also.