I love this unusual pattern, but I have not been able to find a name or photo anywhere. If you have any information about the pattern, I would love to hear from you.
The diamond shaped pieces appear to be from the 1950s, with bright solids and small novelty and floral prints. Although it must have been tricky to piece, the quilter did a very nice job. It is square and pretty flat, with only some small puckering that should easily quilt out. The top was clearly made for a twin bed at 60″ x 83″ and is hand pieced.
The quilter used two colors of background fabric (one white and one cream colored), but all of the square pieces had turned brownish, as you can see in the photo below.
I took a chance that the top would clean up, and I was happy to see that an all night soak in hot water and Oxyclean removed most of the brown. Just a gentle machine washing was all that was left to turn this formerly grimy top into a little jewel.
Wow! Martha, the top is very beautiful and unusual. I have never seen this pattern before. Do you think maybe it could be her own design? She did a great job making it.
I agree, Joyce — it is beautiful and unusual. There were so many pieced patterns published by the 1950s that I hadn’t thought about it being the quilter’s own design — that would be cool!
Haven’t found it in Brackman’s research but it sure is a cool quilt! It washed up beautifully, great job on saving it! Hugs, Mickie
I can’t imagine making this and setting all those pieces in. I don’t know what this pattern is called, but there is a similar setting quilt that I believe is in the Connecticut State Quilt project book. I will look it up tonight and shoot you a photo. The quilt in the book is about 100 years older than this one c1840 and it is stunning. Thanks for sharing these gems.
Lovely quilt! What a treasure.
Beautiful quilt, how it cleaned up after washing! What are you going to do with it?
Hi Martha,
Thank very much for your blog. That is beautyful rare quilt.
Look here what I just found
http://encyclopediaquiltpatterns.blogspot.com/2016/09/magic-squares-and-henrietta-whitney.html