ditto!!!

In days of yore, patterns were not used. Quilts were just made!!! :)

I would suspect your best selling pattern would be something relatively modern. Also, quilt patterns tend not to be individual, and more in books.

As for the most made pattern .... that's where your Log Cabins, Dresden Plates and GFGs would likely rise to the top.

How about all those patterns that were published in a Kansas newspaper? Was it the Kansas City Star? They published a new pattern every so often and to this day, they are highly prized patterns. These were published in the days of the Great Depression, if I am not mistaken. ( on second thought, I very well could be, it could have been during the dust bowl days, or???)

Those were the first two patterns that came to my mind. My aunt who was THE quilter in our family did GFG and one heck of a lot of bow ties, too.

Best selling??????????

Now that I think about it, that would leave out some of the most cherished patterns of all time. If there were templates, they were passed down and never paid for. Not to mention the patterns in newspapers and magazines that weren't charged for.

And at what period of time would anyone have kept track of money transactions.

On a similar bent, I hate when the movie with the most income is touted. Cripes. I've seen Gone with the Wind a couple dozen times. Only paid to watch once. Same with Wizard of Oz. How much did it cost to go to a movie in 1939? 10cents, a quarter?? You can't buy a stick of gum for a quarter nowadays.

I'm going to guess there are very few PAID FOR patterns of the log cabin. It is such a simple block, no pattern is needed.

Couldn't go very far back. Keeping track of sales has been a recent development, mostly in the computer age.

How does EB quilt a log cabin that would be new?
Obviously I've not read the book.

me too!

Yellow brick road is another very simple pattern. why would anyone need to spend money for the pattern?

Log Cabin would be my choice.