Two-Gallon Jug

Sand Mountain

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Stars with Checkerboard Corner Blocks quilt, found in Lamar County, Alabama
Large, square cotton quilt, pieced, in the "Crown of Thorns" pattern, also known as the "Rocky Mountain Road" pattern and since the 1930s, has also been classified as one of the "New York Beauty" patterns, against a white ground a grid of nine blocks defined by orange-red bands with green dogtooth motifs on either side, these same bands form the border of the quilt, the lines intersected by small, square medallions centered with green and orange-red star-like, floral motifs, at the interior corners of each square a half sunburst pattern with serrated edge in the same orange-red fabric, which, when the blocks are placed side by side, form circles at the corners of each block.
Pigpen quilt, concentric squares, red and blue
Quilt, "Lone Star" pattern, Nora Ezell, textiles