Me and the people at Electric Quilt have been working on re-issuing my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and the digital version BlockBase in new editions later this year so I've recently been adding patterns I missed in the first indexes.
I wrote a bit about the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks designs of the 1930s in the Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler book that came out last year and I thought I'd seen them all.
Link to a preview:
https://books.google.com/books?id=hmx8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=kansas+city+star+quilts+sampler&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXh6Hj3Y3nAhXJQc0KHUugDmMQ6AEwAHoECAYQAg#v=snippet&q=wheeler&f=false
Colonial contradiction so prevalent in the 1930s:
Inaccurate period dress, colonial kitchen green and modern patterns.
Merikay Waldvogel conducted a study center on an important newspaper pattern group for the AQSG meeting last October. She has been telling me I missed a lot of Alice Brooks/Laura Wheeler designs. I was aghast to find she is right.
Like the one in the lower center in her graphic for the study center.
I spent hours on that Friendship Chain and a post here:
The patterns I missed were mostly under the Alice Brooks byline.
Darn that Alice Brooks.
I missed some Laura Wheeler designs like this one too.
Leota sent a scrappy version, telling me she couldn't find it in the Encyclopedia.
It will be in the next edition.
Setting Sun, Leota
Reader Mail
Needlecraft Service
Household Arts
Old Chelsea Station (this is what the pattern collectors of the 1960s & '70s called it because their office was across the street from this post office branch in Manhattan)
By Lines:
Alice Brooks
Laura Wheeler
Anne Adams
Carol Curtis
Marian Martin (more clothing than quilts)
Mary Cullen
Lily Album 1933
Merikay told me to subscribe to Newspapers.com to find more Brooks designs so I did and have spent too many leisure hours scrolling through papers looking at "Alice Brooks Quilt Pattern" hits. I have come up with many that were not indexed.
Fortune's Fancy 1933
Pine Cone 1934
Sally's Favorite 1933
It may have been Sally's Favorite, but I haven't ever seen a quilt in the pattern. Some of the Brooks patterns are a bit quirky.
Flower Wreath 1935
Friendship Rings, quirky though it may have been, was relatively popular. I've been looking for the source for all these wedding ring chain quilts for a while.
The block
Read more about the syndicate here at Wilene Smith's webpage:
Looking forward to publication of the new Encyclopedia and Blockbase. Thanks for your hard work and sharing you vast knowledge. I also enjoy your blogs very much.
ReplyDelete"Darn" her and "thank" you!
ReplyDeleteWow! Some fabulous quirkiness:-)
ReplyDeleteThe good part about missing those originally is that people will feel it's worthwhile to pay for an updated edition, knowing there is a lot that's new in it. Some really fascinating patterns pictured.
ReplyDeleteThis is fascinating. The missed patterns are quite exceptional and I especially like the wedding ring chain. I already have your current book but will take a look at the updated edition with these new finds.
ReplyDeleteThank you
I may be remembering wrong but it seems Alice Brooks/Laura Wheeler were the weekly feature patterns in the Des Moines Register and or Tribune in the 1960s-1970s. They were not always quilt patterns, often dresses.
ReplyDeleteSo many pseudonyms would make these patterns difficult to find. That is one of the benefits of having the internet and archived sources like newspapers that obscure clippings can now be found. Not everything is archived of course but a syndicate column is bound to be easier to find.
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ReplyDeleteI first saw the wedding ring or friendship chain in a book called the communion of the spirit by Roland Freeman under the name of slave chain made by ms.Phoeba Johnson of Wilkinson County,Ms. I was able Th draft the pattern from the quilt because I loved it so much I completed the quilt in 2013.