Additional Yankee Notions Blocks?

 

Rina Spina's Block #9 Yankee Puzzle

Rina in Sicily has a question about the Yankee Notions Block of the Month---12 blocks.

"I would like to make my quilt bigger, so can you suggest some extra block patterns that I can add?
I would love four more, it will fit much better on my bed."

1) SOUTHERN MOON

The theme for the BOM was culture North & South. I looked up some designs in the new Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. I added blocks in the third edition and here is one: Southern Moon from the Alice Brooks newspaper column in 1939.

Southern Moon, #1495.3, page 175

BlockBase with all the new patterns isn't ready yet so

I had to draw it in EQ. Print this out at 8-1/2" x 11" for

templates.

2) YANKEE PUZZLE

You know Alice never did anything the easy way. I looked around for some simpler blocks. There are several Yankee Puzzle blocks, this one of 16 identical triangles called Yankee Puzzle by Ruth Finley in her 1929 quilt book. (BlockBase #1195b)

This Yankee Puzzle is in my Civil War Sampler book. See a post here:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/12/49-yankee-puzzle.html

For a 12" block BlockBase says cut triangles from a 7-1/4" square.

3) RIGHT HAND OF FRIENDSHIP

Right Hand of Friendship by Becky Brown

Another block from the Civil War Sampler. Here's rotary cutting from BlockBase for a 12" block:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/10/43-right-hand-of-friendship.html

4) STRENGTH IN UNION

Strength in Union by Becky Brown

From a Chicago Tribune Nancy Cabot column.

Two pattern pieces

A = Half-square triangles cuts from 3-1/4" squares

B = Squares cut 2-7/8"

5) UNION

Union by Becky Brown

from a Ladies' Art Company design about 1890

See a post here: but it's so old that most of the pictures are gone:

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2011/10/44-union.html

12" cutting instructions from BlockBase

That's five to pick from and the Civil War Sampler book has 50 related blocks with 12" & 8" patterns.

https://www.ctpub.com/barbara-brackmans-civil-war-sampler/

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