A Few Feathered Stars: Radiant Star 2248

We tend to call this design Feathered Star,

a rather generic name that means a star

with serrated or feathered edges.

This particular quilt looks to be from about 1880-1920. The faded khaki, probably once green or blue, is a good clue to that time span. The pattern with it's octagonal center is older. I found the one below at FirstDibs. It looks to be mid-19th-century.

It's a spectacular example

with Turkey red prints in the star points.

How did mid-19th century quilters pass this design around?

I haven't seen any evidence that it was published until the early 1930s.

Yet there are many examples dating to the

late 19th century.

Quilt dated 1876 by Emma Mills Dabney.

This version has been floating around Pinterest.

In my BlockBase program the star with the octagonal center is #2248.

Three names were published in the 1930s.

Capper's Weekly from Topeka, Kansas, called it Star of Bethlehem. 

Aunt Martha's pattern company from Kansas City, Missouri called it Chestnut Burr or Radiant Star.

The Aunt Martha company sold a pattern through the mail in 1933.

Encouraging more quilters to try the design.

Since the pattern is in my BlockBase program for PC's you can print out templates any size.

Here's a snapshot of 2 pages of the 4 pages of templates for an 18" block.

Roseanne Smith did an almost identical star (I guess it would

be numbered 2248.1 in BlockBase) that she learned from the 

Queen of Feathered Stars: Marsha McCloskey.

Marsha with 2248.1

The square in question is pieced of two triangles in Marsha's. In the old quilts it's a single square.

She has books on feathered stars and this EQ software

for digitized pattern drawing.

Sandi Klop, Perennial Star

Sandi Klop at American Jane sells a similar pattern in Perennial Star,

 a few more points.

And Marti Michell has templates also for a star with a few more points.

Maybe this version should be numbered 2248.3

Feathered Star by Hortense Beck, 1990

Hortense Beck did a reproduction of an old quilt a few years ago that is in the collection of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum. Go to:

http://www.quiltstudy.org/collections/search.html

And near the bottom of the page pull down the menu in Collections to see the 57 quilts by Hortense Horton Beck.

I'll show you a few more feathered star designs in the next few weeks.

Reproduction Patterns: Start Stitching in 2014

Come September 

from Geoff's Mom's Patterns

http://www.geoffsmompatterns.com/

Looking for a new project in a new season in a new year? It' either too cold to garden or too hot---depending on your hemisphere--- so it's time to start a new reproduction quilt. Here are a few commercial patterns that will keep you busy.

Southern Star from Bits & Pieces

http://www.bitsnpieces.net/store/store.php?pg1-cid35.html

One More Time

by Mary Elizabath Kinch and Biz Storms

From Small Pieces, Spectacular Quilts

http://www.maryelizabethkinch.com/books/

Michelle Yeo

Feathered Star and Mariner's Compass

http://www.michelleyeoquiltdesigns.com/html/s01_home/home.asp

Reminiscence by Lori Smith

https://www.frommyhearttoyourhands.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=011&PROD=1155192635

Vin du Jour by Three Sisters for Moda

This is a FREE online pattern. 

http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_vin-du-jour.pdf

Gone to Texas by Betsy Chutchian

from Gone to Texas

http://betsysbestquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/

Moda's Collection For a Cause: Love

You can download a free pattern

but you might want to find a kit with precut pieces.

http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_cfac-love.pdf

Farmer's Market by Edyta Sitar for

Laundry Basket Quilts

Edyta will always keep you busy.

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/Shop/shopindex.htm

The Lucy Boston Coverlet

The book:

Lucy Boston: Patchwork of the Crosses by Linda Franz

http://lindafranz.com/shop/lucy-boston/4/product/lucy-boston-potc-book/31

Here's a Pinterest page to give you ideas for fussy cutting

http://www.pinterest.com/source/stitchesandsewon.blogspot.com/

Sundial 1797

Carolyn Konig

for Carolyn's Quilting Room

http://carolynsquiltingroom.typepad.com/blog/block-of-the-month--1.html

I meant really busy.

More Morris Patchwork

Ann Burgess

Morris quilt

You know many people buy the William Morris reproductions,

but few are bold enough to cut into them.

Chains of Love by Carolyn S. Moore

Carolyn made this as a wedding gift from Morris reproductions

in my various Moda collections.

She used white as the contrast

She had people at the wedding sign the blocks.

A great remembrance.

A Morris-covered hand for your jewelry from Etsy

by Pierr Morgan.

Stephanie Serrano made this jacket out of a Morris Tapestry Layer Cake

and a little yardage.

QuiltLizzy sells a pattern for a Morris Shoo-Fly.

Click here:

http://www.quiltlizzy.com/gallery.html

Wendy Turnbull combined the Twins Sisters block in Morris Modernized

with prints from my 1862 Battle Hymn collection.

See a pattern for Twin Sisters here:

http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2013/08/twin-sisters-in-morris-modernized.html

Threadbear Embroidery has this nine-patch for sale on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/156277650/modified-nine-patch-quilt?ref=sr_gallery_5&ga_search_query=antique+quilt&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all&ga_category=quilts

Michele Hill made a giant log cabin block

and stitched pearls around the center square.

See more here:

http://williammorrisandmichele.blogspot.com/2013/02/designers-block.html

SewGratefulQuilts blog showed a quilt she quilted for Jameson

done from a Michele Hill baby quilt pattern.

It looks like the border and set fabric is from the Morris Apprentice line

http://sewgratefulquilts.wordpress.com/category/customer-quilts/

Rebecca at Bewildery should be making progress on her Morris diamond patchwork.

Here's the start

See her photostream here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bewildery/5659421148/in/photostream/