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A friend came to my Bee with older quilt blocks from her grandmother or mother. They were all torn apart but when four were placed together, this is the image that showed up on camera. Anyone know it? It has strange piecing of the parts. Thanks for looking. [ATTACH=CONFIG]471745[/ATTACH]

Interesting block. It has a 3-D effect. I wonder what it looks like with different color combinations. I don't know a name for it.

Cheers, K

Its similar to one called "yankee puzzle".

Looks something like 'flyfoot'.

http://www.quilterscache.com/F/FlyfootBlock.html

Neither of those has the box at each intersection of the star - it looks like the start/center is an 8 point star made of diamonds. And lots of y-seams.

Cheers, K

It could be a "broken star" though that can refer to a variety of types of quilts/blocks.

Cheers, K

Looks like a 3-D pinwheel block that has other pieces added to it to finish the quilt square.

Yes, very similar to "flyfoot"

It is very similar to flyfoot. The thing that is so odd about it is all the diamonds in it. The pink and blue are diamonds and the black with dots are diamonds. Lots of y seams. The pattern didn't emerge until the photograph. Before that it really looked odd. I am guessing it's one of those out of the paper back in the day. Wherever it came from, her relative liked it. There were several like these and there were others in other colorways. But this one was ripped in two.

Here is a link to your previous posting on this, not sure if you checked it out as well. http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ml#post6626121

Thank you thimblebug6000, I thought I had asked but couldn't find the line, so I asked again.

Can you tell if the fabrics were once feedsacks? Some of the prints look like they might be.

NOT flyfoot. The squares at the end of each star leg say it is something else. I have seen it many times before, but have no idea of the name. I have a block of that in a signature wall hanging, but don't know who made the block.

That was the first name that popped in my mind, but the odd little plaid square throws it off.

If anyone has Block Base it might be 4058 but can not tell for sure

I'm not sure what it is, but it's incredibly cute. Sometimes people just design their own blocks.

Could be. She liked it for sure. Some of the fabrics might be feedsacks. The quality of the different fabrics varied. She was definitely using and making do with what was available.

I just spotted what appears to be a tumbling block in the center of the top two squares (actually I can see at least two of them), the way the pieces are laid out it seems like the pattern may have gone askew in assembly?

It appears to me that the fabrics in this block are old. Possibly flour sacks. But what I really wanted to mention is that over the ages quilt patterns have be designed by people with a bit of imagination. This block could very well have been drawn by by the woman who sewed it.

I've got one pattern I designed for my own purpose. Very likely there's one quite similar somewhere. So, what I really wanted to say-----------don't sweat finding a name. Chart it for your records, name it after the woman who made it and enjoy.

That's good advice GrannieAnnie, that's what I'll tell my friend. She could have created it. It's pieced so funny.

Could be the makers name with Puzzle.

Might be an old magazine pattern grandma had called " Flying (or) Spinning T's"?