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ANTIQUE GEOMETRIC QUILT DESIGNS
FLYING X
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Quilt Notes:
The name, FLYING X, applies to several different quilt blocks, but this block has only this name. Each of the quilt design compendiums offers special features unique to itself. For instance, Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA not only relates designs similarly structured by way of the numerical system, but where applicable, adds cross references to more obliquely related blocks elsewhere in the collection. This one is number #1959, the cross-references are #1171 and #2301 — following these related links, sleuth like, can be very interesting. (See a list of recommended quilt design books here.)
The first appearance in print of FLYING X as a two-color block is Nancy Cabot's (June 7, 1938) Chicago Tribune column (see left), where it is dated to 1860. "Flying," subconsciously may have to do with the ease with which this block can be assembled, and why Cabot perhaps makes a point of distinguishing it as "one of the easiest to set together."
Jinny Beyer's ALBUM has a 3 color (light-medium-dark) rendering of FLYING X (#94-6), extending another layer to the tiling pattern through a complexity of hues. In her book, DESIGNING TESSELATIONS, in regard to modulating dark and light in quilt designs, Beyer says, "value adds a completely new dimension, allowing tessellations to emerge, as if by magic, from patterns where none seemed to exist before."
For more "flying" designs at this site, see BIRDS IN THE AIR, and FLUTTERBYE, also FLYING SAUCER, FLYING FISH, FLYING BATS, and TAKING WING.
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See CABOT BLOCKS for a selection of newspaper clippings of Nancy Cabot designs!!
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