Originally Posted by lynnsim
Thanks! I wonder if it's a 1930s pattern? I made these blocks: churn dash, bow tie, and this block -- all from calicos.
Actually, according to Barbara Brackman in Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, this was first called Shoo Fly (pattern #276) in The Ladies Art Company as early as 1897.
So, yes, it would have been pieced in the thirties in those wonderful feed sack prints, but it came about before the turn of the century.
Jan in VA