Quilt Notes: "Drunkard's Path" type designs use quarter-circles, swapping dark and light and rotating in endless, fascinating arrangements. The quarter-circle for this design can be drafted as 2/3 of a square or 3/4 (as shown below). For a fine sampling of traditional variations of "Drunkard's Path" type quilt designs, with full templates and cutting & piecing instructions, see: 65 DRUNKARD'S PATH QUILT DESIGNS, by Pepper Cory, Dover, 1991. For more Emily Dickinson's poetry, see Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism: A Photo-Poetic Labyrinth.

Emily Dickinson's DRUNKARD'S PATH Poem: I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. When landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the foxglove's door, When butterflies renounce their drams, I shall but drink the more! Till seraphs swing their snowy hats, And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler Leaning against the sun!

More DRUNKARD'S PATH designs at this site: * DRUNKARD'S GARDEN * FALLING TIMBERS * FOOL'S PUZZLE * REFLECTIONS OF LOVE * SNAKE'S TRAIL * SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS * WHIRLING ARCHES * WONDERS OF THE WORLD