Grayce Wilson lived in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania and made this block about 1938. She was a farmer's wife with three sons, who all worked in the coal mines of western Pennsylvania.
According to BlockBase the name of this pattern is Milady's Fan, and it was published in one of the Aunt Martha series of pattern booklets. With some Googling I found that Milady's Fan was in book #3500, "Easy Quilts". Some more Googling located an Etsy seller with a digital download of "Easy Quilts", and very shortly I had a copy of the whole booklet. What did we do before the internet?!
To make my own block I printed the BlockBase pattern onto freezer paper, ironed each piece onto my material and hand pieced the nine inch block. It's an exciting challenge to find fabric to match the 1930s prints. I took the original top on holidays and went through each quilt shop on the way with the top in tow. My block is a good match for the colours, I doubt that I could find a similiar paisley print.
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Wow great match for the original fabrics.
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