"Most of the older quilt patterns have migrated from east to west, but YREKA SQUARE reverses the tradition and comes from a famous mining town of Yreka, California, in the days of the Forty-niners. The original coverlet was used as an all-over design, with the small prints set in the block on the diagonal, and the solid colors in contrasting color forming pairs of squares. It is a simple and easily pieced block and one of those patterns originally designed to utilize old dresses and scraps for much needing covering."