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by Glynice
My Mother was a avid quilter and she had a magazine called Quilting Today (1989) featuring a KY quilter, Donna Duncan, of Eminence, KY. She made a quilt pattern that won an award.
Julie,
Wow! 1989! - that was a lo-o-ong time ago!
The pattern to which your inquirer refers is a very old pattern, "Pyrotechnics," which was first published by the Ladies Art Company (LAC), credited as the first mail-order pattern company. The number 176 was assigned to it by LAC; all patterns numbered 1-272 were in print by 1895, and may go back as far as 1889. The same pattern, with the name "Wheel," was also published by Farm Journal. It was also published, with the name "Wheel of Fortune," in the book American Quilts, by Elizabeth Wells Robertson, in 1948. Carrie A. Hall and Rose G. Kretsinger, in their book The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America, 1935, also called this pattern Pyrotechnics. (The preceding documentation is from the book Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, by Barbara Brackman, 1993. Brackman's Encyclopedia is also available in software, under the title BlockBase, by Electric Quilt. Brackman's work is quite comprehensive, and is a valuable tool for quilt historians and quiltmakers.)
I taught this design as a drafting class many years ago. This pattern was a useful pattern to use in drafting a circular design that did not have a bazillion little points meeting in the center (as a Mariner's Compass does!). Instead, the center is a small circle (such as you would find in the center of a Dresden Plates). Still, the design has some of the elegance and "feel" of a compass design. I instructed and encouraged my students to draft their own patterns; however, I provided a pattern for those who were not satisfied with their own drafting skills.
I am still teaching locally. I do not have a website.
If this lady has access to BlockBase, she may find the pattern via a Name Search (search for "Pyrotechnics" under Search by Name), or via a Number Search (search for 3461 under Search by Number), and print the pattern out in any size she desires. (Brackman's reference number for this block is 3461; Pyrotechnics can be found in both Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns as number 3461, as well as in BlockBase as number 3461.)
I hope this is helpful. (And I hope it was not too much information!)
It certainly pleases me to know that a piece of my work from so long ago has inspired another quiltmaker.
Blessings,
Donna A. Duncan
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