1931, Prize Winning Designs), At the Square (Nancy Page, Nashville Banner, 1932), The Broken Dish ( Kansas City Star, 1937), Fireside Visitor (Clara Stone, Practical Needlework, C. You may have also known this block as The Arrow (c. Try using a fabric with less contrast for piece H and see what happens. Depending on the colouring, you will find the arrows seem to go both ways. London Roads was christened in 1897 by the Ladies Art Company. I have left this out but you can easily include the coloured corners in your block by changing the fabrics for pieces D and H. I am so excited to have found the Chicago Tribune archives! I’m sure I’ll spend days lost in them!Īs you can see, the original block had shading in the corner triangles.
I couldn’t find anything else about the origin of the block, so ended up back at the original source. This pattern was originally published in the Chicago Tribune, by Nancy Cabot on 29 April, 1938. I chose Silver Maple, though for its added interest, with the third fabric. Here is the Broad Arrows block for comparison:īroad Arrows was called Maple Leaf, rather than Silver Maple, in 1900 by Ladies Home Journal, so the connection between the blocks has always been there. I could find no other source information. Silver Maple is a variation on the Broad Arrows block that’s come from EQ7. The traditional block, pictured below, is drawn on a 5 x 5 grid, so I’ve updated our version to fit it onto our 6 x 6 grid. Our May Basket is a variation on the traditional block, though. 1897 through to the late 1930s), Picnic Basket (Nancy Page), and Basket of Chips (Ruby McKim). According to Barbara Brackman, it has also gone by the name Grape Basket (lots of published examples, from the Ladies Art Company in c. May Basket, the quilt block, was given its name in Capper’s Weekly. It is an old-fashioned American custom, where people would gather flowers and sweets into a basket and hang them on the front doors of family and friends on May 1.ĭo any of our American quilters remember this, or still maintain the tradition? I was going to set a block with this theme … but then I found out about the tradition of a “May Basket” during my research. May 1, or May Day is something I have always associated with the labour movement. Welcome to May! How amazing are you? Still here! 1895-1897) and Pin Wheels.ĭownload April 30 instructions (as. It has also gone by the names Clover Leaf, Flutter Wheel (Ladies Art Company, c. Windmill was given its name by Ladies Home Journal in 1903, according to Maggie Malone.
I haven’t seen it referenced anywhere else.ĭownload April 29 instructions (as.
This delicious sounding block is from EQ7’s block library. KANSAS STAR, Method 1, Quarter-Square Trianglesĭownload April 28 Method 1 instructions (as. I present two methods to make the block today. It was published under the named Eight Point All Over in 1938, but this title is very rarely used. Kansas Star, was fittingly published first by the Kansas City Star, by Eveline Foland in 1932. This block is from Molly Malone’s book, and greatly resembles the Lost Ships block, in all but its two -tone colouring.ĭownload April 27 instructions (as. So our block today is Four Crowns, something suitably royal for the occasion. It is a national holiday in the Netherlands. Today is Koningsdag, the King’s Day, which celebrates the birthday of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
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