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Friendship Knot of Mystery

An interesting if miscellaneous quilt pattern.
This top from an online auction.

Here's the block.
Diamonds with a wedding ring like curve.

It's a variation of this one.

BlockBase #4047

A complex repeat (and complex piecing)

BlockBase tells me the pattern was published under two
different names in the mid-20th century.
Friendship Knot from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicate
and Friendship Wreath from Lockport Batting.

From Mary Koval's inventory

Despite the complexity many stitchers tackled it.

Project & the Quilt Index.

The block forms half a star with 4 diamonds. The lower
star points extend into wedding ring curves---4 pieces per durve.

Probably inspired by the Hands All Around antique
that Ruth Finley showed in her 1929 book.

Hands All Around variation
 BlockBase #4044 from the Arizona Project & the Quilt Index.
See a post about the older design #4044 here:

I'd say the version at the top of the page was someone's individual drawing
(3 shapes per arc; 2 diamonds instead of 4)

Except I have more photos of the variation with 2 diamonds than the Laura Wheeler design

I'm going to have to number this one BlockBase #4047.5

Jesse Earl Childers from the West Virginia
Project & the Quilt Index.

Again from the West Virginia project.

My BlockBase drawing for #4047 isn't that accurate so I am not going to give you a pattern.
But there are plenty of patterns for the design with 4 diamonds out there on the internet.

From a Field Guide to Quilts

Mary Holmes Fisk, St. Lawrence County, NY
The mystery design---
Has anyone ever seen it published before 1970.
It must have been!


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