"In this issue of the WORKBASKET you are given cutting guides and directions for 48 different pieced blocks - one for each state."
Also included is the embroidery pattern for Ireland, showing a little girl and a pig. Ahem.
The PDF is available as a free download at the Antique Pattern Library.
Happy July 4th!
ReplyDeleteBoy, I wish I could quilt or had the patience to learn. That pig apparently is a sign of good luck as you have to be lucky to catch a pig (and fast.) I used to give my superstitious Scottish mother a marzipan pig in her Christmas stocking for a prosperous new year.
Going to try a few of these quilt squares. But the Irish girl and pig - Phrezzzz!
ReplyDeleteA shamrock, a clover, a Celtic cross would have been better.
Bunnykins - some quilt squares are the perfect thing to learn to use a sewing machine. My grandmother had me make a 9 patch quilt on her sewing machine. I learned to hate her ruler and seam ripper because my seams were not straight enough. Now i am grateful that lesson.
Then there's the old expression of skepticism "I should hope to kiss a pig."
ReplyDeleteOh, Sam - sounds like my grandmother checking my embroidery stitches and the way I started and finished my work so it was neat front and back. I really should make a scrap quilt as I have at least a bushel of red and white scraps saved for a Canadiana quilt (some day.)
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