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.