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One may be certain that "Old Maid's Puzzle" is a genuine antique, because there
haven't been any "old maids" in a generation, and "bachelor girls" are not so
easily puzzled!
The triangles and square here given are exact size of the finished parts in a
block 9 inches square. Cut cardboard patterns from these. Trace around them
onto material and cut a seam larger. This is really quite a simple block to
piece, four squares of two varieties. The color scheme suggested uses odd
scraps of pink, blue, and green prints with white set together checkerboard
style with alternate plain blocks, each color forming a pattern in diagonals
across the whole quilt.
The "hour glass" quarter of this block repeated into a strip makes an
attractive pieced border.
Material Estimate: 72 blocks, 36 pieced and 36 plain, 8 blocks
wide by 9 long and a 5-inch border all around will make a quilt 82 by 98
inches. It requires 1/2 yard pink, 1 yard blue, 1 1/2 yards green, and 6 yards
white, a total of 9 yards.
A geometric Tulip design or four flowers would quilt nicely on the alternate
plain squares.
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