Originally Posted by JENNR8R
Originally Posted by Jan in VA
Lone Star
Western Star
Star of the West
Texas Star
Star of Hope
All from Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns.
Jan in VA
That's funny... Maggie's book has eight blocks called Lone Star, no Western Star, nine Star of the West, seven Texas Star, and six Star of Hope... None of them look like my block, and most of them don't look anything at all like the same named blocks. I wonder how so many different blocks have the same name?
Well, it's a regional thing, for one.
It's also dependent on where the author finds the names for the blocks. Barbara Brachman, author of the Enc. of Pieced Quilt Patterns is a renowned quilt block and fabric historian so I, personally, go to her books first. She generally tries to trace a block name to its first use in print. Many of her sources are documented from widely read women's magazines and other resources from the 1800s to the thirties.
Jan in VA