Rose Garden quilt block

Rose Garden

November 11, 1933-The rose gardens of Oregon inspired Nancy Cabot's quilt pattern today entitled Rose Garden. A very different rose design from yesterday's Mexican Rose pattern.

This applique pattern consists of two different rose blocks, one a flower and one a bud. The blocks were joined with sashing and cornerstones.  The roses were to be "shades of rose or yellow, and the joining strips in two shades of green."

This is another quilt design that I can not find any additional information on.

Tomorrow-Delectable Mountains

Mexican Rose quilt block

Mexican Rose

November 10, 1933-Nancy Cabot continues her run of floral applique patterns with the introduction of the Mexican Rose design.

Nancy believed the Mexican Rose pattern originated in Texas and was inspired by "the lovely cactus rose found in the desert."

The  colors of the flower were to be yellow and rose with the leaves and stems "a color as close as possible to the grayish green found in desert blooms," she wrote.

The Mexican Rose design can be found in Electric Quilt as Mexican Rose.





Here are some links to Mexican Rose quilts-

most like Nancy Cabot's

pattern in McCall's magazine 1916

variation from 1800's

variation from 1921

Tomorrow-Rose Garden

Kansas Troubles quilt block

Kansas Troubles

November 9, 1933-"Kansas Troubles, as shown in this quilt pattern can't be dispiriting, it's a gay and attractive design. Do you suppose it was given its name by some patient Kansas woman who stitched it to forget her troubles?" These two sentences are the entire column written by Nancy Cabot when publishing her Kansas Troubles quilt pattern.


Wouldn't it be great if we really knew how some of these patterns got their names?









As I was making this pattern, I had a feeling maybe I made it before. I finally figured out I kind of had. The Rocky Glen quilt block from May 27, 1933 has the same parts in it, just arranged differently. Look I even used the same floral fabric!

I decided to paper piece this my 6" Kansas Troubles block but it could be made using the same cutting techniques that I used when I made my 6" Rocky Glen block. Below are the parts of my paper piecing pattern which can be downloaded here. Each quadrant of the block starts out like the section at the top of the photo below and gets sewn together like shown on the left of the photo.

Here is a link to an old Kansas Troubles pattern, by the Ladies Art Co. from 1895.

Here are several links to Kansas Troubles quilts-

red and white on point with alternate plain block

scrappy on point with alternate plain block

scrappy straight set with pinwheels

planned scrappy straight set

red, white and blue

straight set with sashing

The Kansas Troubles block can also be found in Electric Quilt's Blockbase program as #1270.

Tomorrow-Mexican Rose

Chinese Lanterns quilt block

Chinese Lanterns

November 8, 1933-Nancy Cabot published her Chinese Lanterns pattern today. Though not a floral design, this is yet another applique pattern.

She wrote "its execution presents a rare opportunity to the quilter who likes to make use of many vivid colors, since the lanterns may be as colorful in fabric as they are in paper."

Nancy Cabot had published another pattern using the lantern motif, Japanese Lantern, on June 20, 1933. That pattern was a pieced block.

There is a very bright, colorful lantern quilt here. It's not exactly Nancy Cabot's design but it definitely has some of her motifs. I can't find her pattern or any quilts made using it.

Tomorrow-Kansas Troubles