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Kathryn Kerr's 365Challenge: 22-27 ноября 2017
November 22
STAR AND CROSS, 6″, Light
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.
Lockport called the block North Star, while it was also published as Shining Hour by Farm Journalin 1944.
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Image from Lockport batting wrapper
Download November 22 instructions (as .pdf).
November 23
AIRPORT, 6″, Light
Today’s block is chosen for all our American quilters, for the inevitable travel on the day before Thanksgiving. Airport was first published in Hall in 1935, with a similar block following in 1936 in the Kansas City Star (also called Airport). It is delightfully evocative of tarmacs and runways!
Airport is a tricky block. I’ve modified it, so that it doesn’t have Y-seams, but this doesn’t remove the many bias seams! Some hints: get lots of starch on your fabric, finger press as you go, rather than press (this gives you more wiggle room; once something is ironed it really sets it into place), and hold off trimming until the end of step 2 in the sewing instructions.
Enjoy the challenge, but also remember that there will be bonus blocks!
Download November 23 instructions (as .pdf).
November 24
TURKEY’S DILEMMA, 6″, Light
Happy Thanksgiving!
With appropriate deference to the starring dish for today’s dinner, here is Turkey’s Dilemma. According to Maggie Malone, this block is a recent addition to our quilting repertoire, first published in 1982 in Stitch and Sew Quilts (designed by Ruth M Swasey).
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November 24 BONUS
TURKEY TRACKS, 6″, Light
Turkey Tracks is a very common name for this block (for instance Bonnie Hunter used it in her version of the block in her book, String Fling, 2012; and Pam Kay used it to describe an old quilt she was repairing in 2012); however I couldn’t track down when this block lost its original names, and gained Turkey Tracks.
It is also often called Devil’s Claws – a misnomer referring to a very similar block from the Ladies Art Company (#142, c. 1895). It’s original name (well, the first published one) was Lily Quilt (Nancy Page, Birmingham News, 1934) and Sweet Gum Leaf (Nancy Cabot, Chicago Tribune, 1936).
Download November 24 BONUS instructions (as .pdf).
November 25
SQUARES AND STRIPS, 6″, Light
A nice easy block today, for those of you still recovering from an excess of turkey!
Judy Hopkins calls today’s block Squares and Strips, and EQ gives it an equally uninspiring name: Centre Nine-Patch. But it’s a fun block, and gives you some large squares to show off your favourite background. Enjoy!
Download November 25 instructions (as .pdf).
November 26
MERRY KITE, 6″, Light
Merry Kite is one of the later Ladies Art Company blocks (#515, 1928-1934). It was also published by Hearth and Home under the title Mrs Fay’s Favorite Friendship Block.
Download November 26 instructions (as .pdf).
November 27
WHITE HEMSTITCH, 6″, Light
White Hemstitch was originally published in the Grandma Dexter Booklets (book #36B), sometime between 1930 and 1949.
There are two methods from which to choose today, depending on whether you hate flying geese units.
Method I
Method II
Download November 27 instructions (as .pdf).