BLOCKS 42 and 43 and 44

BLOCK 42 - CATS AND MICE: HUNGER STRIKES

BLOCK 42 - CATS AND MICE:  HUNGER STRIKES

 

I hand pieced this 42nd block in the Grandmother's Choice weekly 
sew along.
I've continued to use up my scraps.

 

Block No. 43: Gentleman's Fancy

Block No. 43 - Gentleman's Fancy - Dropped from the Clouds

Unnamed (Ohio Farmer 4/5/1894)

See BlockBase for more published names.

 Mary Boykin Chestnut Civil War diary she observed:

"Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children---and every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's households, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends to think."

The pattern was published by the Ladies' Art Company.

BLOCK 44 - STAR OF HOPE: 
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

BLOCK NO. 44 - STAR OF HOPE: THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN

 This the 44th block in our weekly sew along, they named the Star of Hope.  

The block was given that name in the 1930s by the syndicated Nancy Page quilt column. 
I know this block as the Ohio Star.  This was given the name by Nancy Cabot.  


To read along with the reasoning for the blocks visit Grandmother's Choice: Votes for WomenI paper pieced this block.  I continued to use bits of scraps.

  

41. CONTRARY WIFE: FRANCES KEMBLER BUTLER

THE WOMAN WAS CONSIDERED CONTRARY IF SHE HELD HERSELF TO BE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS HER HUSBAND.  IN CONSIDERING HERSELF AN EQUAL MALES AND PROBABLY SOME FEMALES FELT THAT SHE WAS LESS THAN A WOMAN.  BLAH.  WHAT CRAP. 

 

 I CREATED THIS BLOCK FROM MY SCRAPS, USING DIFFERENT COLORS TO DEPICT THE COLORFUL NATURE OF WOMEN WHO REBELLED.  PERFECT SHOW OF DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS OF THOUGHT.  THIS WOMAN AND WOMEN LIKE HER PAVED THE WAY.  WE IN OUR TIME HAVE A FIGHT BUT NOT AS DIFFICULT AS THE WOMEN BEFORE US.

 

SECTIONS OF THIS BLOCK WERE PAPER PIECED AND AS IS MY HABIT, I REMOVED THE PAPER FROM THE SECTIONS AND THEN HAND PIECED THE SECTIONS INTO A BLOCK.  

 

Block for week 41.  Contrary Wife - Frances Kembler Butler

BLOCK 40. ART SQUARE - WOMEN IN A BOX

BLOCK 40:  ART SQUARE-WOMEN IN A BOX

Now on week 40.  The center of this block is from Moda panel fabric (Friendly Folk by Sandy Gervais). Putting a woman's art into the block seemed appropriate.  I appliqued the squares into the corners so I could be sure that the lines of the striped fabric all lined up nicely.  All from my stash.  I'm not sure how long I've owned the panel or when the "Friendly Folk" panel came out.  It's been a hidden gem and I found it when I was organizing my stash onto comic book boards.  Same with the striped fabric.  I thought the tree made a great focus fabric.