Quilt Notes: Like BEACH AND BOATS, an abstraction for sail boats riding at anchor. Elegantly titled VARIATION OF SAIL BOATS in Barbara Brackman's ENCYCLOPEDIA (#2388), listed in her section, "Blocks with Unpieced Corners," including 24 examples of similar construction. This one as a tiling pattern — with its absolute simplicity — one of the most interesting. Brackman dates it to Jean Fadely's, "Frameless Quiltmaking for Beginners," 1971. The same pattern is titled V-BLOCK in Maggie Malone's 5,500 QUILT BLOCK DESIGNS (#874), and attributed to "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine," published since 1969.

For the V-Shapes, compare with LEFT AND RIGHT and SHIFTING CUBES, also SYMMETRY IN MOTION and another variation of V-BLOCK.