Square in a Square Set for Hands All Around

 

Here's a set idea being discussed on our Facebook page

HandsAllAround:Alcotts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/732398834135535

12 different star blocks, 13 alternate blocks of a square

inside a square.

Cutting for 8, 12 & 16" from EQ8 

Quilt about 1900 by Evalina White Allmott Chiswell Darby,

North Carolina Project & the Quilt Index

You get a lot of different effects by shading and setting the blocks on point, etc.

Susan E. Mueller is trying out the set here with Block #2.

13 stars, 12 alternate blocks

If you were careful with the shading you can get a

complex pattern going that really emphasizes the

alternate blocks.

EQ8 sketches

But since this is a sampler of stars

we might be better off with low contrast in the alternate

square in a square blocks.

Like this one circa 1900 from Donna Stickovitch's collection.

Monument Square, early 20th century.

Library of Congress

We'll call it Monument Square after the Concord park where the Civil War Memorial is located.