Quiltingboard Forums - Patchwork Flower

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Originally Posted by RuthEm

What a treasure!! Glad you were able to finish it...you did a great job and the quilting is lovely too. Do you know the name of the pattern? I've never seen it before. Thanks for sharing.

It is called "Patchwork Flower" in an old book I found at an Estate Sale somewhere along the way. It is not exactly the same but very similar..squares in the book are 11x13..The "work in progress" I found has 12x12 blocks and the petals and leaves are not quite the same size and the stems were curved rather than straight like the book. The book was published in 1973 "Polly Prindle's Book of American Patchwork Quilts" by Alice I. Gammell(Published by Grosset & Dunlap..New York). She doesn't date the time of the quilts but "traces the history of patchwork and applique as it moved across Europe, Brought from the East by returning crusaders." It has 50 American patterns with complete instructions and yardage needed. I have made a couple from the book and really enjoyed doing them. Alice Gammell was 81 years old when the book was published and Polly Prindle was her name for the little girl she once was. Hope this helps..it would be an easy quilt to copy. :lol: