Oh my, I remember that game and playing it through out the Wisconsin winters, when I actually liked the snow! And yes it really is like the game. Wonderful!
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Oh what a history this quilt must have... like others, I know that the swastika became a symbol of evil AFTER the Nazi's used it, not before... The quilt is quite beautiful... I hope that you'll share with us the history you discover?

Welcome to the board. You have a beautiful quilt to be treasured.

The brocade fabric with swastikas would have been very popular among the elite in theWorld War I era. This is just a guess, but the fabric may have been used in a quilt to show disdain for the print and the fabricators of it. At the time that this fabric would have been used in a simple (but beautiful) quilt, was probably right after Germany fell. Up to that time the fabric was probably in a formal gown for special occasions.

I just saw your comment about left and right facing swastikas and that makes me doubt my first response. Having swastikas both directions makes it an older piece of goods, since that design would be pre WWI because after WWI no one used swastikas to decorate anything due to the image used by Nazi Germany.

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I believe your quilt to be pre-WW11. The swastika had the arms turned one direction and the Iron Cross had the arms turned the other way. No, I do not know which way for which one.
The "Grandmother's Fan" quilting pattern was used forever with hand quilting. Just a pencil or piece of chalk with a string tied to it, then knotted at intervals to make the fan spaces. Hold a knot tight against the quilt top, draw a 1/4 circle, then move to the next knot, etc. til you have the fan, quilt, do some more. My Mother used this a lot for "everyday" quilts.

I'd call the block Star Crossed Lovers

Thanks to everyone for all the comments

I found it most interesting to learn the true meaning of the swastika prior to WWII, quilting and the board can be most informative. Your quilt is interesting and stunning.

I am so glad to hear that the swastika had other meanings. My mother gave me an old necklace with a swastika on it... I have always hid it as I didn't want anyone to know I had it...... Now I can think better thoughts of it.

what a very prety quilt and specially in blue and white. Lucky you.

it's hard to tell in the pictures but the swastikas really don't even show up unless you get at the right angle with the light hitting them right they are shiny so the light makes them show without light they hide. though out all the years no one had even noticed the swastikas till I saw them a couple months ago by luck.

What a treasure. Good luck researching its history.

Well, there you are! I've only had my coffee and I've learned how to quilt this pattern! I never would have thought how to do that... and I love the pattern on a quilt... Thanks Phyllis!!

Welcome Persistent.
The quilting pattern is now called Baptist Fan. I don't know much about the pattern, but it is similar to our more modern Friendship Star. It should be fun doing a little genealogy search.

I have a paper framed picture of my grandmother and there is a German Christian Cross on it. It has nothing to do with a Swastika - that was Hitler's decision, not the German Christians. I am 75, my grandmother would probably be around 125-130 now and it was taken around the time she got married. Oh by the way, she was born in Wisconsin.

It is a beautiful quilt. Edie

Here is a link to a web page with contact info for someone who has made a study of swastika textiles. I haven't tried the phone number, so it may not still be in service. Good luck. http://www.quilthistory.com/98222.htm

Wow...That is awesome...Can the person that gave it to you help you ?

sorry but no they told me all the info they knew about it which wasn't much an others that may have known are gone.

I'd seen this block before and remembered it was called Crossroads so I tracked down some more info. The full name is Crossroads to Bachelor's Hall.
The pattern was first printed in 1906 in a Clara Stone booklet made available by www.antiquepatternlibrary.org Here is the pdf link. You'll see that on the cover of the booklet is a swastika quilt. Look for quilt #31.
http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org...ltPatterns.pdf

Recent article: http://quiltingpiecebypiece.wordpres...ewold-pattern/

Detailed article on use of swastika in quilts.
http://www.quiltersmuse.com/Swastika...he-Design.html

You'd need an expert in dating fabrics to determine more closely when it was made. I think it looks 1920s. Do you know what year you're great-grandmother was born?

This is an amazing quilt. Love the pieced blocks. I have never seen a swastika print before. It would be interesting to have it dated so you know aprox how old it is.

Thanks Irish now i have a pattern name

It will be beautiful when cleaned and seems you've inherited a wonderful memory.

Interesting article, will check back.

Puts me in mind of this quilt
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...ilt-blue-white

interesting would love to see a pic of that quilt.all the swastika quilts I have found have large easily seen swastikas which mine does not. from my posted picture you can zoom in as close as you want but you see no swastikas it takes light at the right angle to see them. would love to find how the swastika fabric was used other than to make this quilt. predating Hitler I don't understand why the lucky swastikas are hidden. A quilt appraiser said from the picture it looks to be from 1880-1900 I will update when I get more info. thanks to all and happy new year

found out the great grandmother was born in 1863 but haven't figured out where she was born yet. I'm still trying

What an amazing quilt, no matter what the fabric has on it. I would say treasure it and keep it safe. If you look at most artdeco building in cities that were built before WWII then you will see the swastika or broken cross. In the KC area there are at least 4 that I know about. Probably more that I don't. If you store the quilt you should type up a paper on the meaning and history that you can find on the quilt. This way those in the future will know the history and might not have a knee jerk reaction to destroy it.

Not the Nazi swastika, which has the arms turning in the other direction. It's an old design that predates Nazi swastikas.

Thanks JoanneS as you can see in the pictures my quilt has left and right facing the Nazi swastikas are right facing at a 45 degree angle. And yes this quilt predates the Nazi version of swastika. I in no way believe this quilt is related to hate. It is a shame that the instant people see swastikas (myself included until I received this quilt) they associate them with the hatred that the misguided dictator linked to the image.

Some Native American Indian tribes also painted the "Swastica" sign on their horses and tee-pees and that was long before Hitlers rise to power.

yes your right I have read that and here is some info about it being a symbol for good luck an/or wealth as seen here in Wikipedia

The word swastika came from the Sanskrit word svastika, meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote auspiciousness, or any piece of luck or well-being.
It is composed of su- meaning "good, well" and asti "to be". Suasti thus means "well-being." The suffix -ka, meaning "soul", suastika might thus be translated literally as "that which is associated with well-being," corresponding to "lucky charm" or "thing that is auspicious.