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03-04-2011, 11:39 AM

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dixiebelle162002

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Very nice! I especially like the first one.

03-04-2011, 12:23 PM

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lollygagging

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Because of their apparent age, I wouldn't get rid of any of them until I was sure what they were. It may resemble a Nazi insignia, but may be something entirely different. They are truly a piece of the past and worth treasuring.

03-27-2011, 04:05 PM

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I think the pink and whit Flyfoot square on this page is the same square as the blue and white one in second row above.

http://www.quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore1.html

03-27-2011, 04:12 PM

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PunkiePie

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WOW!

03-27-2011, 04:13 PM

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So beautiful. Do you know any of the history behind them?

03-27-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by tortoisethreads

Yes keep them all.Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

Yes, I was thinking that the swastike symbol was used to represent love before Hitler's time.

03-27-2011, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by marknfran

Quote:

Originally Posted by squilter

I was moving some stuff today and found these, I acquired them in a box of sewing stuff at an auction several years ago and don't know a thing about them. Thought I would let you all see them.

I would get rid of the ones that look like Nazi symbols. Never know who you could anger. Have you seen any quilts made with that design before?

Some of those were known as "waterwheel" or other names, and before the Nazi era nobody thought of them looking like anything sinister. The swastika is actually an ancient Sanskrit symbol for good luck or something like that, and who knows how the Nazis happened to adopt it for their own use. It probably just indicates the blocks are pre-WW2, because that design certainly fell out of favor. Maybe you could use them in a quilt if you appliqued something over them to alter the look, or lop off the corners by piecing triangles onto them?