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.
Falling Leaves.
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.
This year worked out pretty well. I can't find 8929 and I'm not sure about some of the 1400 series patterns, but it's pretty c...