June 1

ARROW POINTS, 6″, Light

Welcome to June! Another month of our 6″, light blocks … then you’ll be just about ready to finish another border!

Arrow Points is just one of a series of very similar blocks. It was first named by Nancy Page in the Birmingham News in 1934, but is also known as Endless Chain (1933). Look at all the variations on the basic pattern:

Blackford’s Beauty, 1941	Stepping Stones, 1931
Arrowhead, 1933 Arrowheads, 1935	Winged Nine-Patch, 1940

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June 2

CROW’S FOOT, 6″, Light

Today’s block was first published in 1896, in Ladies Home Journal under the name Large Star. It was Nancy Page that gave it the name Crow’s Foot during the decades between the 1920s and 1940s.

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June 3

FOX AND GEESE, 6″, Light

There’s a nice opportunity to use a feature fabric in the centre square in today’s block.

Fox and Geese is a good old-fashioned block. It was first published in Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife in 1941.

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June 4

AUNT MARY’S DOUBLE IRISH CHAIN, 6″, Light

Aunt Mary’s Double Irish Chain is one of Clara Stone’s blocks, published in her Practical Needlework booklet in 1906.

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June 5

ODDS AND ENDS, 6″, Light

A nice easy block for today! Odds and Ends is one of Nancy Cabot’s blocks, published in the Chicago Tribune in 1935.

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June 6

REVERSE FLYING GEESE, 6″, Light

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