Tim Quilts with Ladies' Album Jellyroll

 Tim Latimer, one of my favorite bloggers, is interpreting an old quit top from about 1890-1910 in a signature quilt.

I am pleased to see he is making good use of a Jellyroll

of 2-1/2" precut strips from my Ladies' Album reproduction collection

for Moda.

He gathered signatures from friends

and is alternating two 6" blocks, a  nine-patch with a snowball block.

The two-block design has been popular for

a century or more. In my BlockBase program for PC's it's #1001. 

Here's a finished quilt similar to Tim's but the blocks are set on point.

I'd give you a pattern name but there

are many to choose from.

BlockBase lists 19, with perhaps the

 two earliest published names:

"Flagstones" from the Ladies Art Company catalog

"New Snowball" from Hearth & Home magazine,

both published about 1910.

Most of us call it "Snowball."

Tim's right: it makes a great signature quilt. See his how-to here:

http://timquilts.com/2014/08/15/signature-block-piecing/

Vintage top from the same time period, different color scheme.

The gray was probably once green or blue.