Flying Fish/Swallows
 Flying Fish/
Swallows
Cabot
1939
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Brown Goose/Double Z
 Brown Goose
Ladies Art Co., #192
1897
The Ladies Art Company used the name Double Z for both this block, its #192, and its #360. It was probably just a goof. Click to see the other Double Z: 
We've used the name Brown Goose because, as far as we know, it's unique to this block. The names Brown Goose, Gray Goose, and Devil's Claws are from Ruth Finley's Old Patchwork Quilts (1929). The name Old Maid's Puzzle #2 is from Clara Stone's Practical Needlework (1906).
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Sonnie's Play House
 Sonnie's Play House
Kansas City Star
1935
Sonnie's Play House in three colors
The block creates a windowpane of sorts — lines of on-point squares. We've used a third color in a second mockup at right.
The block is based on a grid of 18 squares by 18.
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Golgotha
 Golgotha
Finley
1929
Ruth Finley's 1929 Old Patchwork Quilts included this charming block among those named for Biblical themes. Golgotha was a hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. The block based on a grid of 12 squares by 12.
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Crowned Cross
 Crowned Cross
Finley
1929
In just two colors, this busy little block requires a lot of unnecessary work, but that's how Finley presented it in 1929. (We've reversed her colors to show the seam lines.)
Nancy Cabot and Carrie Hall also offered variations of the block. We'll include them soon, we hope. In the meantime, check them out on these external sites:
Cabot's:  Hall's:
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Persian
 Persian
LAC, #525
1928
This intriguing block was the Ladies Art Company's #525, published in 1928. Carrie Hall named it Persian Star in her 1935 Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, and columnist Nancy Page named it Persian Squares in 1942, according to Jinny Beyer's Quilter's Album. It's drawn up on a 14x14 grid.
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All Kinds/Beggar's Block
 All Kinds
LAC, #377
1897
 Beggar's Block
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Beggar's Blocks/Cats & Mice/Turnstile
All Kinds is an 8x8-square block from the Ladies Art Company's 1897 catalog (#377). We think it would make a terrific scrap quilt.
The names Beggar's Blocks and Cats & Mice are from quilt researcher Carrie Hall. She stitched up a three-color version of the block that now resides in the Spencer Museum at the Unversity of Kansas.
Turnstile was newspaper columnist Nancy Page's name for the block in 1938, according to Beyer's Quilter's Album of Patchwork Patterns.
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Flying Fish
Brown Goose
Sonny's Play House
Golgotha
Persian
All Kinds
Beggar's Block
The Railroad
Path Thru the Woods
Linton
London Square
Odd Fellows
Double Z
