Quilt Notes: this ART SQUARE block (as it appeared in Nancy Cabot's Chicago Tribune column on July 9, 1934) is a slight variation. The original (traced back to the 1906 Ladies Art Company Catalogue, #324) uses the same light color in all four corners, but also in the center diamond: the older version is illustrated in Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. If this is one of the easiest geometric blocks to draft on a grid, see BEAUTIFUL STAR as one of the more complicated. Below a facsimile of Nancy Cabot's 1934 newspaper column.