A CLOUD OF QUILT PATTERNS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN IN BLOG FORM UPDATES & ADDITIONS BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

Monday, January 30, 2017

Nine Patches: BlockBase 1601-1621

Nine Patches
Equal proportions in the three strips that make up a nine-patch


Ella Hapgood Ward, Date-inscribed 1859
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Mass Quilt Project & the Quilt Index

BlockBase #1601 b


Nine Patch by Elizabeth Nace
Date-inscribed 1786 From Lancaster County Heritage collection
BlockBase #1601a

It's one of the oldest American patchwork designs.


From the Rhode Island Project and the Quilt Index.
Set in strips of chintz.

The shading makes the patterns look different although
they are the same block, equal-sized squares.

This mid-20th-century quiltmaker ignored shading in the
blocks but carefully shaded the setting squares.


Four Patches in a Nine Patch---Five to a Block
So basic nobody ever published it with a name.

Also Four Patches in a Nine Patch
but only four to a block.
Again, no number

Alternating blocks

Nine Patches in a Nine Patch
BlockBase #1606a



Marie Webster called this Double Nine Patch in 1915 and
we'd probably call it that today.

Above and Below
BlockBase #1612

The pattern was published as Building Blocks
in the Household Magazine in 1929



You could also put another nine-patch in the center.
This design has no BlockBase number but it should be 1612.5.

Some of the most basic patchwork designs.



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