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Kathryn Kerr's 365Challenge: 4-13 ноября 2017
November 4
FRIENDSHIP NAME CHAIN, 3″, Dark
Another quick and easy block for you. Friendship Name Chain was first recorded in the Kansas City Star, in 1944.
Download November 4 instructions (as .pdf).
November 5 – Guy Fawkes Day
KATHERINE WHEEL, 3″, Dark
It’s Guy Fawkes night! Let off the Katherine Wheels, the crackers and the fireworks. Have fun Britons!
Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Celebrating the fact that King James I had survived the attempt on his life, people lit bonfires around London, and months later the introduction of the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot’s failure.
Katherine Wheel is the perfect block for today. It was first published by the Gutcheons in their The Quilt Design Workbook, 1976. So, it’s a recent block.
Download November 5 instructions (as .pdf).
November 6
DARTING BIRD, 3″, Dark
Darting Bird is a Nancy Page block, so it would have appeared in various syndicated columns sometime in the late 1920s – ’40s.
Download November 6 instructions (as .pdf).
November 7 – Melbourne Cup
GOOD FORTUNE, 3″, Dark
At 2pm this afternoon, Australia will stop! It stops on the first Tuesday in November every year! Schools, businesses, parliament!
And they’re racing! Everyone is watching the Melbourne Cup. Even those who never gamble have a flutter on the horses, or the office sweepstake. It is literally the ‘race that stops a nation’. So today’s block is Good Fortune. Hope you have a win in the Cup!
Good Fortune is the name Clara Stone gave this block in 1906 in her Practical Needlework: Quilt Patterns booklet. It was later also published as Cross Bars by Nancy Page.
Download November 7 Melbourne Cup instructions (as .pdf).
November 8
BEAR’S PAW BOWTIE, 3″, Dark
I have no idea where I found this block. It gives good diagonal movement if you need a block a little different to the usual stars and symmetry. Enjoy!
Download November 8 – Bears Paw Bow Tie instructions (as .pdf).
November 9
AIR CASTLE, 3″, Dark
Air Castle is one of the early Ladies Art Company blocks (#101, c. 1895), but it was also later published as Towers of Camelot by Nancy Cabot in 1937. I love the whimsical names.
I’ve included this one to use up some left-overs from October.
Download November 9 instructions (as .pdf).
November 10 – Marten Gas
WILD GEESE, 3″, Dark
Today Sweden celebrates St Martin’s Day − or Mårten Gås. So what better block for today than Wild Geese.
“St Martin’s Day is a celebration of the goose − all other connotations have largely been forgotten. In early November geese are ready for slaughter, and on St Martin’s Eve, November 10, it is time for the traditional dinner of roast goose.”
From: Sweden.se.
Wild Geese uses flying geese units in an attractive arrangement I found recorded by Maggie Malone (2005). Unfortunately, Maggie doesn’t give information about the block’s original source.
I have also included this block so that you can practice the piecing of the corner … before you get to the December floral block.
Download November 10 instructions (as .pdf).
November 11 – Remembrance Day
POPPY, 3″, Dark
At 11 am on 11 November, 1918 the guns of the Western Front fell silent. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war, and today we will mark it with one minute silence. The Flanders Poppy is common throughout France and thrives where the soil is disturbed, thus in spring on the Western Front, graves would be marked with a flourish of red flowers. In Australia, we call today Remembrance Day; elsewhere it is Veteran’s Day or Armistice Day.
Today’s Poppy block started life as the Simple Pansy Block, designed by ‘Honey, Bunny, and Doll’ and released as a free pattern on Craftsy.
The Simple Pansy Block was adopted by the Aussie Hero Quiltproject, a group who make army cot sized quilts and laundry bags for serving Aussie soldiers. I have adapted the block so there is no applique, but the original block has a black circle appliqued in the centre:
The Poppy block is reserved for their ‘Fallen Warrior Quilts’, given to the families of soldiers killed during deployment, or for special commemorative quilts. When needed, individual Poppy blocks are sourced from quilters all over Australia. The group is very active, if you’d like to get involved.
Download november-11 instructions (as .pdf).
November 12
STRAW FLOWERS, 3″, Dark
Nancy Page bought us today’s block. It was first published in the Birmingham News in 1939.
Download November 12 Straw Flowers instructions (as .pdf).
November 13
THE RED CROSS, 6″, Light
We diverge from our dark blocks for a day or two! Today is World Kindness Day. The day was introduced in 1998, by the World Kindness Movement, which has 25 member nations. Their purpose: “to inspire individuals towards greater kindness and to connect nations to create a kinder world”.
It was difficult to come up with a suitable ‘kindness block’. In the end, I settled on The Red Cross, to represent the organisation, which certainly represents kind acts. The Red Cross was first published in the Kansas City Star, in 1934.
Download November 13 Red Cross instructions (as .pdf).