Early Snowfall
An EQ8 sketch for a quilt pieced from my Best of Morris collection:
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The inspiration: An early quilt from the New Jersey project & the Quilt Index
A Nine-Patch Star alternated with a Square in a Square block.
Set on point
This design is set on the square and uses a similar block.
I changed the proportions on the alternate block to fit the star.
Rotary Cutting the 2 blocks:
12" Finished Blocks
We generally call this star Ohio Star.
BlockBase #1691a
You can change the size by printing out BlockBase #4141 any size.
The New Jersey quilt isn't the only pre-1840 quilt to use this kind of repeat.
Chapin was born in Hampden County, Massachusetts; married Aaron Warner Stebbins in 1805 and had 7 children. She died in 1887 in Mansfield, New York.
That alternating pieced block set is kind of sophisticated design,
more common after 1850 as in this circa 1900 version.
A McCall's pattern for a "Colonial Quilt"
We might call it a variation of a Snowball.
#1001 in BlockBase
But a Snowball is based on a Nine-Patch, not a star.
Stars not in BlockBase
Different star, same idea, mid-20th century
So...Snowfall
Solids give you a place for quilting.
And then there are scrappy prints in the alternate squares.
Simple patchwork/complex fabric.
More on snowball variations:
https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2014/09/tim-quilts-with-ladies-album-jellyroll.html
Click here for a Moda free pattern for William Morris prints we did a while ago:
https://www.modafabrics.com/webfiles/fp_morris-earthly-paradise.pdf
Phoebe in the snow.
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