Barbara Brackman's MATERIAL CULTURE: Kentucky River Rose Pattern

One of my favorite patterns

is this fruit full of dots---a pomegranate or pineapple.

This one from a quilt in the DAR Museum attributed to Lucy Kemper West

(1792-1876) of Garrard County, Kentucky

https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-146

The Quilt Index file on this museum quilt tells us that it won a blue ribbon at the Missouri State Fair in 1926. Lucy's son Lysander West II moved to Cass County, Missouri and his descendants may have entered this quilt in competitions.

Here are he and wife Ruth in Cass County right before the Civil War.

Irene Blanck and the DAR cooperated on a pattern for a Tribute

to Lucy Kemper. Do a websearch for Lucy Kemper Irene Blanck to

find this complex pattern.

I thought I might need a simpler pattern and came across several inspirational block quilts

An example from Cindy Rennel's inventory. With the

half blocks and the fading solids it's probably Southern.

Bad picture found on the internet of a four-block set.

Nine-block set, probably 20th century, by Vicki's great grandmother

Alice Wright Morris of Troy, Alabama

I did index this pattern with fruit in a four-way symmetry in my Encyclopedia of Applique, number 13.43 with the reference "Edith Hall's Rose" in Quilts of Tennessee.