July 10, 1886 1886, Mrs. Reed whose recreation was "to piece bed-quilts" sent this pattern to the Prairie Farmer magazine suggesting an old fashioned color scheme of red or green on white. Kind of like this one. Quilters stitched a lot of variations on the basic sawtooth design but Mrs. Reed's pattern is one of only a few actually published. I added it to the new Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and BlockBase+, where it's one of the earliest published, named designs. Marie Webster gave a similar design the name Double X in 1915. From Webster's book. I've got a collection of Sawtooth nine patches here with unpieced centers. From the Ohio project, published in their book. I've always liked this quilt, which looks 1840-1860. I drew it up in EQ8 by exporting the BlockBase+ file, recoloring it and setting it side by side, but not on point. I used fabrics from my new Ladies' Legacy repro line from Moda. Details from about the same time Variations date back to the 1840s at least. From a Copake auction, maybe 1870s That blue-violet and the paisleys and the stripes 1870-1890? Looks Pennsylvania German, 1880-1910? Alternated with a plain block. A pretty good plan. Is that a claret-colored red? Early 20th century? Green calicoes tough to date. This block---early 20th century Lowndes County Historical Society in Georgia Several from online auctions---all look to be early 20th Sashing a good idea---here it is in Ladies' Legacy. About 1900 Red & white hard to date, after 1880 It's a good idea, a counter-change coloring with dark blocks and light blocks alternating. But she had trouble. Hmmm. A 10" finished block using the BlockBase+ rotary cutting feature.