Can I take advantage of everyone's knowledge of quiltin' lore? I came up with this block in EQ and I KNOW I can't have been the first one to come up with it ... I'd really like to know if anyone knows the block's name ... so I can add it to my library of psuedo-Civil War blocks!!
Thanks in advance!! And quilty hugs!!
-- Connie :-)
Well, here I am, bein' stupid again ... Totally forgot to put in the link!!
Hugs!! Connie :)
So .... does that mean you don't know?! ;)
Phhhbbbtttt. I'll have you know that when it comes to spankin' myself, no one does a better job than I do! ;)
Enh, chalk it up to havin' hubby underfoot for so long (that man's face may end up on a milk carton if he's not careful!!) ... out-of-control kids are
*nothin'* compared to an ailin' man!!Hugs!! Connie :)
tis similar to another block i cant now recall the name of...i'm sure someone else will pop in here soon and tell us both, lol. i like your pomegranate block and the pun'kin patch quilt...loading that pdf file now to have a look/see at it.
my mom had pomegranates grow> Well, here I am, bein' stupid again ... Totally forgot to
Barbara Brackman has it as "Mother's Dream" but the MD I remember is much different ... And I did change it around a bit further (a li'l bit of boredom can be a dangerous thing).
But when it comes to pieced (unless it's paper pieced, I think) I don't think there's really any "new" blocks - I think they're old blocks tweaked just a wee bit.
Hopefully you're not the sort to walk into situations with high expectations. If so, you'll be disappointed!
But if you have any input or opinions on what I can do to make'em better - 'specially the instructions. I suck at writin' - as if you couldn't tell.
If you do like'em, there's plenty more where that came from. I've got a coffee placemat and WH, other blocks that go with the Pomegranates, some birds, etc. :)
Pomegranates? I've always heard that they're hard to grow ... good for you on bein' able to grow one much less a bunch!! We've got a Key Lime tree that's been givin' us fits. Has some weird white fuzz (not mold) growin' on it and drivin' hubby buggers.
Don't even get me started 'bout t'matoes. Had FOUR plants this year and how many tomatoes?? TWO. Two stinkin', teeny-weeny 'maters. I can't get more'n two 'maters out of four plants and you get oodles of seedlin's out of one tree?? Not fair. Not fair.
But I know what you mean ... I LOVE pomegranates. I just love'em raw. It's been 'bout two years since I've had one, though ... the last few times they were in season, they just didn't look .... right ... at the grocery store.
Trade ya fabric for pomegranate seeds! :) Or, if you really want to be generous, I'll trade you my hubby for some pomegranate seeds! ;)
Hugs!! Connie :)
ame ...
I looked in Block Base and didn't see that exact block. There is a Road to California which is similar (also called Stepping Stones and Crossroads). Combine that block with the one known as An Effective Square, Baltimore Belle, Flying Geese, Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows Cross, Odd Fellows Patch or Odd Fellow's Patch and it would almost be your block.
Mary
Well, I can't see any of those (I don't have BB ... yet), so I guess I'm goin' to have to get off my keister and get BB!! EQ doesn't have anything close in the libraries ...
Thank you, Mary ... not only for lookin' for me and doin' the legwork, but also convincin' me to get BB!! :)
Hugs!! Connie :)
Ooo! I got that book for my birthday this year! ??? Turkey in the Straw? Well sort of, half ways.... I looked and thought and it occurs to me that it looks almost like Goose in the Well, which is sort of the goose in the pond meets the turkey in the straw and they get along famously well. I tried to find a picture of the thing and failed miserably. Take your block, and turn the geese round to go the other way then put a squared off diamond in the middle and you have it.
I have no clue as to the provenance of this block.
Some of the non-repeating blocks, mathematical blocks, realistic blocks and blocks rooted in other cultures are new I think. I made a pieced Totoro (from the Hayao Miyazaki film) based on somebody else's origami Totoro, I have also made chinese lucky bat blocks based on origami patterns. Those surely are not trad blocks. Don't forget, foundation piecing is so _not_ a new thing. People just came around to remembering that it was a useful thing indeed for making blocks with lots of fussy little pieces or wierd angles. Praise Carol Doak, praise her with great praise.
On the other hand, yeah, when it comes to repeating blocks made of nothing but "common" angles or simple curves, there is probably not a lot left undiscovered.
NightMist
Which one?! I don't have this particular book - I copied it from a display a guild member made for her "book report" of BB's "Facts & Fabrications" Unravelling the History of Quilts & Slavery" ... is that the one you've got??
I've been thinkin' of gettin' it ... it sounds interestin' though I'm reluctant to toss away years of assumptions and what I was taught in school. I'm a pack rat with lots of things, and knowledge (right or wrong) tends to be something I like keepin'!
What do YOU think? Do you think it was all made up??
Now, is that from the "Fact & Fabrications" book? I'm really lookin' for a great book with a LOT of pieced blocks (not really concerned about instructions - its the block themselves that I'm most interested in).
Oh, I do, I do. I'm not big into the cutesy PP blocks - but when it comes to, say, New York Beauty or Pickle Dish, I LOVE PPing!! And CD is the one that made it all famous (and therefore fairly common in the mags) so we can ALL enjoy it!
I would LOVE to see your Totoro and Lucky Bat ... do you have any pics?? :) What made you decide to make them? What was your inspiration?
I don't think there are any that are really new, per se. Even the "new" ones seem to be either rooted in another art form/medium or re-toolin's of old blocks. But then, I think I'm jaded in that I've been doin' graphic art for nearly 20 years (damn, admittin' that makes me feel ancient) and I've seen that there are no "new ideas" - it's all a rehash of the past ('ceptin' technology used to create it/communicate it). As my Daddy used to say, there's only so many ways to draw a square!
You got a picture of that Totoro block somewheres? I'd love to see it. Debra in VA See my quilts at
Nope. Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns If you are keen on looking at a lot of blocks, that is definitly one to check out. I got both that one and the Carrie Hall book from the same person. Carrie Hall has about 800 blocks, color photos, and some templates. Encyclopedia is all line drawings, and has about 4000 patterns, no templates or instructions, just listing and some catagorization, decent index too.
Encyclopedia:
The only book I have thus far seen on the subject was all wistful thinking and truly abominable research. No better than most of Silver Ravenwolf's historical bits (pagan-wicca, again lots of wistful thinking and darn little solid research). Wanting something to be or have been does not make it true. Lots of things you learned in school are not really true. Pocahantas did not love John Smith or John Rolfe, General Custer was an idiot not a hero, the fall of Richmond was not a suprise or shock to any but the most ardent of true believers in the Confederacy, and Iron Eyes Cody (the indian in the canoe in the pollution commercials back in the 70's) is of italian stock not Native American. The Monkees mostly didn't play their own instruments either. (G)
Nope. I have had no luck finding this block anywhere under that name. I am starting to think I am going to have to go rummage grandma's linen closet to make sure I'm not hallucinating it.
I have got to solve my picture problem. I have gone through about 3 sites now that just shut me down with no warning, and only one of them told me that it was because I was a perv. Apparently posting links to pictures in groups dealing with human sexuality is something the pic places have hysterics about, even if it is just a picture of a cat. It is starting to look like I am going to have to shell out cash for a webserver that doesn't care what or where else you post, and make a website or something.
I think a particular toll I annoyed in another group has been tagging me around. I surely can't imagine that the pic sites discovered my posts without help.
With Totoro I just stumbled across the origami diagram and noted its remarkable similarity to a block diagram. Since the movie is total kid crack, I worked it out for use in kiddie quilts.
The bats I did on purpose. For one, all goth quilters should have a supply of bat blocks! lol! The whole family is keen on bats. Also I was doing kiripet's kimono quilt. I wanted more than just kimono blocks in it, and I wanted to maintain a rather oriental flavor. I tried to find some good looking herons, but wasn't pleased with any of them, including my own efforts at designing some. So I went back to origami, and worked out 2 different lucky bats, another paper crane to go with the one I already had, and a lotus blossom. I felt the angular style of the origami went well with the kimono blocks. I combined it all and threw in milady's fan for good measure. I was pleased with it. The kimonos themselves are done in the 2001 and 2004 fabrics as seen here :
Oh I have been in _that_ rut before! Sure there is nothing new under the sun, but there are always new ways to use old things. For example look at how perspective has come into quilting in the last decade or two. A good number of quilters have always used it to an extent in pictorial quilts, but even there the two dimensions in two dimensions such as the country patterns tended to predominate, and a lot of the perspective used was in the art decco style. Oh sure you have always had the optical illusion patterns such as tumbling blocks or attic windows, but nowdays you are seeing more and more multipoint perspective used over the entire quilt top. I think it was either Leslie or Polly (or maybe both) who showed off a quilt wherein they had done that with flying geese on a curve. More bits of traditional art and graphic design have beeen working their way into quilting (and needlework in general, chiaroscuro cross stitch for example) where they are often percieved as new because they have been so uncommon in the media previously.
I had a chat in the local coffee house (where else? she said with an eye roll) a month or two ago wherein we somehow ended up talking about the inflence of analytical cubism and fauvism on quilting. The similarities you see in some modern quilts is quite clear, however I held that in at least fifty percent of the work it is parallel development with a dash of influence instead of intentional. They thought me mad! Bwahahahaha!
NightMist who is of course, quite mad
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