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ANTIQUE GEOMETRIC QUILT DESIGNS
PUSS IN THE CORNER
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Quilt Notes:
PUSS IN THE CORNER is the name of an old children's game. Happily and unexpectedly, Wikepedia provided the rules of play, a sort of musical chairs, requiring nothing more than a square playing field, with four corners, posts, or trees equidistant from one another (the trees probably the most fun). The rules are these:
One player is nominated "Puss" and takes their place in the center of the field of play. Each of the other four players selects one of the corners and takes up residence there. Play begins with the four corner players attempting to exchange places with each other in any direction. "Puss" attempts to gain a corner during the exchange, and if successful, the player then left without a corner becomes "Puss" and shifts to the center of the arena. Play then resumes in a similar manner.
Quilt designs are poetry, not prose, they don't actually illustrate ideas, they intuit them by way of abstractions. It is truly amazing how PUSS IN THE CORNER catches hold of the rules of the game, and equally somehow depicts the energy of a playful kitten bounding about. There are quite a number of designs in the compendiums, with variations of the name, but this one, based on Nancy Cabot's illustrations of several versions of the block in the 1930's Chicago Tribune, including the tiling pattern used below), seemed to fit the game most closely. Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS, #1603, dates the block back to Grandmother Clark's quilt pattern booklets, 1931.
Other quilt designs at this site navigating the corners of things, include:
AROUND THE CORNER
PATIENCE CORNERS (1)
PATIENCE CORNERS (2)
WHIRLING SQUARE
MERRY GO ROUND
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