I love to quilt! And sometimes Mr QuiltinAnnie helps with the design; figuring out the angles and measurements! This letterbox series will highlight a traditional quilt block or pattern beginning with the letter of the stamp found inside the cache. You will need to supply your own stamp pad.
KANSAS TROUBLES BLOCK
This quilt pattern goes back to the time of the Kansas Troubles, about the time of the civil war in the USA in the 1860's. We have no idea what women called the design back then. The pattern name appears in print about 1890. It doesn't matter how many little triangles there are; it's the rotational repeat that makes it a Kansas Troubles.
This classic block has quite a bit of piecing, and in traditional patterns you would need to sew large triangles and pieced triangles together along long bias edges, which can be, well, troublesome. Now, there are new tricks and tools of the trade to help make this a slightly easier block to make. It's still too many triangle points for me to consider making an entire quilt with this block!!!
Kansas Troubles Quilts
