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Quilt Notes: MADISON QUILT BLOCK is illustrated in the 1922 Ladies Art Company catalogue, #477, as above. It was published in Nancy Cabot's quilt column in the Chicago Tribune on October 6, 1937. It can be drafted also on a 10 x 10 grid but here it is lengthened, as per Cabot's illustration, on a 10 x 12, in order to distinguish the hexagon. Maggie Malone's 5,500 QUILT BLOCK DESIGNS (#4549) and Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS (#250) illustrate the pattern as MADISON QUILT BLOCK, without the tilt to the side, and with credits to Hearth and Home and the Ladies Art Company Catalogue, for its earliest appearance. The unusual and more lyrical slant in Cabot's rendering is retained in Jinny Beyer's QUILTER'S ALBUM (#398-8). Note: many blocks are set in diamonds or slanted while retaining the same name: BIRDS IN THE AIR is a good example of innumerable incarnations.
Other dynamic blocks set on the diagonal include:
BOX KITE
DARTING BIRD
DELAWARE CROSS
ENIGMA SQUARE
BLOCK STAR (with STARRY PATH)
and Y-BRIDGE
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MADISON (QUILT) BLOCK
