I think this is the first year for the Alice Brooks craft nameplate. I suspect this had the same parent company as Marian Martin/Anne Adams since they usually appear together.
Alice Brooks 1933.
I think this is the first year for the Alice Brooks craft nameplate. I suspect this had the same parent company as Marian Martin/Anne Adams since they usually appear together.
Alice Brooks 1933.
Falling Leaves. A friend of mine emailed me a newspaper image and asked if this was another of those Nancy Page quilts. I hadn't seen it before but, yes, it is! Eighteen blocks in all.
This appears to have been a small series of only four designs, which you would have repeated as many times as you needed to fill out however big a quilt you wanted. They're very reminiscent of mid-19th century leaf and wreath quilts. I never did find an image of a completed quilt, only the images of the individual blocks.
We've managed to collect all 26 blocks and the wreath design for the 1934-1935 Nancy Page Laurel Wreath quilt. See them here.
Anne Adams from 1957!
Generally speaking, patterns are sequential, although over time it seems as though the numbers became a little irregular as, for example, Anne Adams 4672 from 1955 was sold longer than expected and thus was skipped in the 1957 rotation and didn't get reused until 1959. The "missing" numbers aren't usually missing--they are usually designs that were introduced the year before. In this instance, you'll probably find them in 1956.
I think this is the first year for the Alice Brooks craft nameplate. I suspect this had the same parent company as Marian Martin/Anne Adam...