To my knowledge it's known as the Snowball and 9-Patch. It's quite old. These two are from the 1900-1920 period, courtesy of the Quilt Index at MSU. They can be done on point
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=47-7B-5C1
or straight
http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=47-7B-306
Is that what you remember?
Last edited by ghostrider; 07-14-2013 at 05:14 AM.