{"id":229,"date":"2007-04-20T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/flowering-snowball-was-cross-block\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:04:28","slug":"flowering-snowball-was-cross-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/flowering-snowball-was-cross-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Snowball (was Cross Block)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a researcher at heart. After Sarah <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/cross-block-and-royal-cross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started my mind spinning<\/a> quickly, Leslie just added to the melee in my head about the real name of the Cross Block. When I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore, I started rummaging around in Barbara Brackman&#8217;s <u>Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns<\/u> and the Kansas City Star books to see if I could find the block. I hadn&#8217;t gotten very far when I decided to e-mail the AQSG list and see what they had to say. They found both blocks (mine and Leslie&#8217;s grandma&#8217;s) right away.<\/p>\n<p>According to Barbara Brackman my block is called Flowering Snowball (#3081 in the numbering system of BB&#8217;s book). It is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforthequilt.org\/boxes\/AuntKate.htm\">Aunt Kate<\/a> and has the reference 7\/65 next to it. Accordng to BB, Aunt Kate&#8217;s Quilting Bee was published between July 1962 and July 1967. In is part of Pattern Category #16: Nine X.<\/p>\n<p>The block that Sarah found and Leslie&#8217;s grandma made are Raleigh from Hearth and Home OR Tennesse Circles from Prairie Farmer, Bk.1, 1931 (#3083). There is another one (#3084) that is exactly like Raleigh from Hearth and Home with slightly fatter proportions called The Royal (Ladies Art Company #282) OR Grecian Cross from Rural New Yorker 5\/23\/31 OR [ta da!] Royal Cross from Carrie Hall.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathartstudios.com\/BATHARTSQUILT.htm\">picture<\/a> of ladies working on a Cross Block\/Flowering Snowball quilt. It is really the only piture of this block in a quilt on the web, though there is a ClubEQ project that includes the Flowering Snowball (Cross Block) block in it.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled and I&#8217;d like to know more, but thanks for starting me on the journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a researcher at heart. After Sarah started my mind spinning quickly, Leslie just added to the melee in my head about the real name of the Cross Block. When I couldn&#8217;t take it anymore, I started rummaging around in Barbara Brackman&#8217;s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and the Kansas City Star books to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/flowering-snowball-was-cross-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowering Snowball (was Cross Block)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[170,317,333],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-flowering-snowball","tag-history","tag-quilt-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56761,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/56761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}