Link of Friendship: Supply Chain

  

Supply Chain

Here's my un-entered design in EQ's

 December Design Challenge

https://doyoueq.com/blog/2021/12/eq-design-challenge-giveaway-best-of-morris/

It's a mid-20th-century design done here in late 19th-century William Morris prints from my Best of Morris collection from Moda (rather hard to find due to---you guessed it---supply chain issues.)

Quilt by Laura Lilly Eads about 1950, Mercer County, West Virginia

From the West Virginia project and the Quilt Index

https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=26-22-457

The pattern is an addition to the third edition of my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

#4100.3 Link of Friendship

It's such a clever pattern you might guess it is from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks

syndicate Needlecraft.

It took me years to find the source and to figure out how the repeat works.

See my previous confusion here:

https://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-wedding-ring-chain.html

Thank you, Merikay.

It is a square block but as in most Wheeler/Brooks blocks the piecing is not going to be easy.

They have you do some fancy set-in Y seams

as you can see in BlockBase+

Pieces D-7 and D-6 here in the original pattern

would be easier if one added a seam down the middle.

The trade off is more pieces but no central Y seams.

Whatever you do it is not a beginner pattern.

Jeannette's mother saved the whole package and she posted it.

The Brooks/Wheeler syndicate also published it as a diagonal.

BlockBase+ Diagonal set

Several contemporary quiltmakers sell their own patterns:

Unchained Melody by Nancy Landon

Ivan and Lucy

UPDATE!

Quilt in a Day has fabric! And it's on sale after Christmas!

https://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponline/