An interesting if miscellaneous quilt pattern.
This top from an online auction.
Here's the block.
Diamonds with a wedding ring like curve.
It's a variation of this one.
BlockBase #4047
A complex repeat (and complex piecing)
BlockBase tells me the pattern was published under two
different names in the mid-20th century.
Friendship Knot from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicate
and Friendship Wreath from Lockport Batting.
From Mary Koval's inventory
Despite the complexity many stitchers tackled it.
Project & the Quilt Index.
The block forms half a star with 4 diamonds. The lower
star points extend into wedding ring curves---4 pieces per durve.
Probably inspired by the Hands All Around antique
that Ruth Finley showed in her 1929 book.
Hands All Around variation
BlockBase #4044 from the Arizona Project & the Quilt Index.
See a post about the older design #4044 here:
I'd say the version at the top of the page was someone's individual drawing
(3 shapes per arc; 2 diamonds instead of 4)
Except I have more photos of the variation with 2 diamonds than the Laura Wheeler design
I'm going to have to number this one BlockBase #4047.5
Jesse Earl Childers from the West Virginia
Project & the Quilt Index.
Again from the West Virginia project.
My BlockBase drawing for #4047 isn't that accurate so I am not going to give you a pattern.
But there are plenty of patterns for the design with 4 diamonds out there on the internet.
From a Field Guide to Quilts
Mary Holmes Fisk, St. Lawrence County, NY
The mystery design---
Has anyone ever seen it published before 1970.
It must have been!
'Long ago' I picked up a bag of cut pieces for a few of these blocks from the guild bargain table. It took me a while to figure out how they should be assembled -- I kept trying for Wedding Ring. Included were vintage (original) parts, a few repro pieces, and some more modern tone-on-tone background sections. Eventually I finally got everything together and hand quilted into a small quilt. I call it Hand-Me-Down, because I was at least the third person to work with those vintage pieces.
ReplyDeletehttp://spiralj2.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-ufo-challenge.html
Page 138 Texas Quilts Texas Treasures published by the Texas Heritage Quilt Society
ReplyDeletehas a photo of a Friendship Knot or Starry Crown c.19140 75"x88" made by Ada Ruth Calfee,
Montgomery, Texas: Owners: Dana and Charles Johnson
The Best of Robert Callaham Volume 1 published by the McCall Quilting Company has the pattern on page 5. Callaham states the Friendship Knot appeared in a 1930s newspaper, where the reader was instructed to send 10 cents to the Household Arts Department for templates and instructions.
In early 2000 I made this quilt with Ardco Templates the Robert Callahams pattern and 40s reproductions. It is hand quilted with a fleur di lis over each block.
The pattern is not constructed as a wedding ring, but as 4 units per block. 25 Blocks made the quilt.