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A Modern Nose-Gay

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Cindy had a question about the pattern in this rather art deco quilt.
That Nile green solid certainly is a good clue to a post 1925 date.

The pattern structure defined by the seams is rather unusual.
And hard to find in my Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns

Or the digitized version BlockBase+
It's in a small category of Four Patches: Unequal Four Patches

Designer Eveline Foland who worked at the Kansas City Star
invented it in 1932. She drew up traditional patterns for the
quilt column but she also designed up-to-date modern ideas
and this is one.

Several examples survive, a peachy version by Olive Weber Spiegel,
recorded by the Quilt Index and the Indiana project.
https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=39-40-4057

Helen Frances Smith from West Virginia
https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=26-22-1685


Experimenting with shading from an online auction

Farm Journal pattern

Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune in 1933 showed it as a four-patch.
And my sources indicated that column also called it Pieced Bouquet.

One block....
But making it a four patch loses the off-center art deco look.

A sketch in EQ8 in my Ebony Suite fabric from Moda.
Isolating the block captures Foland's idea better.



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