Quilt Notes: MADISON BLOCK 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 illustrate the pattern as MADISON QUILT BLOCK, without the tilt to the side, and with credit to the Ladies Art Company Catalogue, for its earliest appearance. The unusual slant in Cabot's rendering is retained in Jinny Beyer's QUILTER'S ALBUM (#398-8).

For more dynamic blocks set on the diagonal see:
BIRDS IN THE AIR
BOX KITE
DARTING BIRD
DELAWARE CROSS
ENIGMA SQUARE
BLOCK STAR (with STARRY PATH)
and Y-BRIDGE