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.
I’m going to start out by apologizing for getting all soapboxy today, but something came up on one of my FB vintage pattern groups a...