Quilt Notes: The KITE illustrated here is related to another quilt design, the BOX KiTE. But the image also has a sense of circling birds with outstretched wings, four of them. Scroll down to see the criss-crossing bouncing of colors and light in the tiling pattern, unique and magnificent, a most beautiful tessellation (notice the maltese cross in blue set on the diagonal). And the name just as magical. Quite a number of quilt designs made their print debut in Nancy Cabot's 1930s-40s column in the Chicago Tribune. The following is quoted from her beautifully succinct introduction (with piecing grid left), writing in April, 1937: "For a novelty pieced quilt, "BIRD(S) AND KITES is one of the most attractive of the elaborated four patch patterns. It is not a new quilt, but one which has not enjoyed the popularity it deserves. That two triangular patches could be set together in such a fashion as to illustrate birds and kites shows the ingenuity of the woman who first pieced the block. She also had the patience of Job to set the patches together with accuracy and precision required for a many-pieced pattern." For more designs at this site with "ingenious" names, see: HAZY DAZY CATCH AS YOU CAN IN NARCISSUS MOTIF DANCING CUBES and OLD MAID'S RAMBLER also compare with BIRDS IN THE AIR