Kansas City Star quilt patterns
I was looking through my first book for the Kansas City Star from 2001 (back when they did quilt books) and remembered the editors ended it with a list of patterns published in the newspaper between 1928 and 1961.
This would be useful if one were looking for a pattern.
You can see the list at the end of the preview here:
https://www.amazon.com/Prairie-Flower-Plains-Barbara-Brackman/dp/0971292000
I don't think it includes patterns published exclusively in the Weekly Star Farmer, their agricultural weekly---just the designs in the city newspaper.
The last pattern in 1961 was Little Boy's Breeches, probably a reprint of this one from 1934.
Since I was making their list into jpgs for myself I thought some of you might like to have a digital list. I've illustrated it with a few patterns from this 2018 book about the patterns.
Preview here:So below are the pages reframed into lists you can print on 8-1/2 x 11" sheets.
1928-1930
The third pattern in 1928
Pattern from Kansas City Star Quilts Sampler
Tattered block from the time of McKim's pattern
From the recent sampler
1930-1932
Mary Edwards Miller, New York Project & the Quilt Index
I was surprised at how few quilters were inspired by McKim's 1930 design
to sew a Mexican Star. Most like this one are after 1960. I made one in
the 1970s.
1934-1936
Arabic Lattice, March 1935
1936-1937
1938-1941
1940 Garden Walk
1941-1946
1946-1949
1949
Crazy Anne (#2)
1949-1955
1955-1959
1959-1961