Western Sun

Here's one of the great American quilts. It's from Julie Silber's & Linda Reuther's collection

at Mary Strickler's Quilt Shop 

long ago---a mid-19th-century crib quilt.

Karen at the Log  Cabin Quilter blog did a great job of interpreting it.

http://karen-logcabinquilter.blogspot.com/2008/03/quilt-show-part-one.html

Using our pattern from the Sunflower Pattern Co-operative

book Butternut & Blue: Threads of the Civil War.

It's somehow just a perfect combination of block and sashing.

The block is a simple wheel variation, 8 points around a large circle. You'd think there would be many quilts in this basic wheel design, however, I haven't seen but a few.

It's a variation of BlockBase #3417 which was published

in the early 20th century by Hearth & Home magazine as Charity Wheel,

perhaps a reference to using wheel designs for fundraising quilts.

Here's Karla's model for Butternut & Blue.

We called it Western Sun.

She used shades of butternut brown.

Sue Troyen and her beautiful version.

Or is it Marcie's at Patchalot, which is where I found this version.

http://patchalotmore.blogspot.com/2009/10/flying-into-western-sun.html

Western Sun from Alaska Quilt Zone

http://www.joeomar.com/photography_quilts.html

She made a rectangle of it.

We still have copies of the book with the Western Sun pattern in it.

See it in our Sunflower Pattern Co-operative Etsy shop:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/523315441/butternut-blue-threads-of-the-civil-war?ref=shop_home_active_11

Here it is colored Union blue.