Charm quilt top about 1880-1900
I've been posting about tessellating shapes that one could use in a charm quilt for several months.
This installment: Curves.
Above is BlockBase #181a,
an old design, published with several names in the early 20th century.
Eveline Foland drew a pattern for the Kansas City Star in November, 1932.
The scale or shell shape is a classic of geometric ornament.
Here are several variations from Owen Jones's
1850s book The Grammar of Ornament.
The pattern is seen in British quilts from about 1800
Moda collection
It may be British---perhaps mid-19th century.
Look for a Moda kit inspired by
the antique above.
Collections for a Cause: Love
End of the 19th century, American.
The reason the shell tessellates is because
it is a triangle---a three sided shape with curves.
Or a four-sided shape with curves....
Depends on how the shape is drawn.
BlockBase will print you templates any size you like.
Quilt by Mary Sears, early 1880s.
West Virginia project. Photo from the Quilt Index.
These shell shapes will stack up too.
Quilt about 1900
You can take any tessellating shape with straight lines
and if you curve it right the new shape will also tessellate.
Lynne Goldsworthy at Lily's Quilts re-shaped a 60-degree triangle
http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/
A pattern with BlockBase #272.5,
published in Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts in 1981.
Here's a popular tessellation, a four-sided shape with curves---
Essentially a rectangle distorted with curved lines.
The Friendship Quilt
by Eveline Foland in the Kansas City Star
"Everyone welcomes a friendship quilt, and many families can boast more than one that has been handed down from mother to daughter. This is a very old, quaint pattern and is a nice size for the pieces to be used. Not two are alike...."
I don't know how old---Eveline might have been thinking 1880s.
It's BlockBase #185a or 185b with many names
- Friendship Quilt
- Spools
- Double Ax
- Double Bit Axe
Plus Mother's Oddity from Capper's Weekly in 1928
People tend to call it Apple Core today.
1994 magazine cover
Apple Core from Sharlene Jorgenson
There is an unfortunate association
with a certain piece of underwear.
Apple Core is good.
BlockBase will print you this version
any size you like.
Indiana State Museum dated 1933
I found a few innovative curved tessellations:
Susan Dileanis sent me a photo of her tessellated Twisted Apple Core
pieced of reproduction prints.
Twisted Apple Core at Annie's Quilts
And Chantell's Creations does many things with this half a clamshell.
See this post about curving a tessellating shape at David Bailey's World---Tess Elation
http://www.tess-elation.co.uk/designintro/design11
It will tessellate, but do you want to sew it?
I've created some Pinterest pages with the tessellations I've been posting about.
Here's a link to the one on Tessellating Curves in BlockBase: