Farewell to 2021 - Sunbeam Crossroad
from The Chester County Criswell Quilt
At the start of 2020, my New Year resolution was to share a quilt block form the Kansas City Star each day on my Facebook page Two Bits Patches. It was so much fun that I continued into 2021, this time sharing patterns from Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune. On Christmas Day in 1935 the quilt pattern was Sunbeam Crossroad.
Sunbeam Crossroad |
What a cheerful name! This is how it appeared in the Tribune 86 years ago.
One of the oldest of the middle western patterns is this delightful little pieced block with such a cheerful name. "Sunbeam Crossroad ...
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