Uh-Oh!

 

Quilt from the mid-20th-century

Pattern published long before that.

Hexagon Diamond Pattern

A reader of the Prairie Farmer magazine told Mrs. Munson

 that she'd been piecing this design for a long time, first over paper

when a girl and now on her sewing machine, 

which was "a ready helper in making patchwork."

I see this is a reference not in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

(BlockBase+)

But that's not the reason for the "Uh-Oh."

It is where I found the pattern in an 1886 periodical.

The University of Illinois has a digitized collection of "Farm, Field & Fireside" publications.

You could spend hours searching for words like quilt, pattern or patchwork.

There is the problem. Browsing.

No pies getting made around here.

Here's a search for quilt in Prairie Farmer. See time line on the left.

Hmmm.

Here's the link:

https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=p&cltn=FFF&p=collections