BUTTERFLY QUILT PATTERN 515 Laura Wheeler Designs

I am so excited with this find!  The pattern is quite brittle and I thought about pressing it flat but it is falling apart.  There are 73 finished butterfly blocks and enough pieces cut out but not put together for maybe another 30 blocks.  There are also a few finished half blocks and 1 finished quarter block.  This is a Laura Wheeler pattern probably one advertized in the newspaper or a magazine.  The box they were found in is an origional Laura Wheeler box that looks like a large shoe box that has a lable printed onto the end of the box with "HOME MADE" on the ends.  I do know where it came from and who put all these blocks together and about when.  The lady who made them was my husband's grandmother and I believe she made these between 1949-1950 as I know she became ill towards the end of 1950 and died before she could set the blocks together.  My father-in-law gave them to me.  He almost tossed them thinking they were no good anymore.
The butterflies are made of feed sack material.  Grandma would receive stacks of feed sacks from her sister who owned a Turkey Farm back then and she would save all the feed sacks and share them with her sisters. 

I need to soak these blocks and freshen them up.  Six have worn spots on the bottom edges of the blocks and I am trying to decide if I can use something to back them for strength.  I think I would love to finish this quilt.  I have only seen one other quilt this Grandma made, but am told that she made hundreds of quilts in her lifetime.  

Garden Twist Pattern in 3 sizes

My sister-in-law, Joan, came across this set of patterns but couldn't remember where they came from and why she would have them.  She is not into making quilts but loves having them around her house so brought the pattern to me.  I am going to put all 3 sizes on here just as they were given to me. 

Dobbin's Fan Pattern



This pattern came from a magazine from 1976 called Olde Time Needlework.  I would love to have the whole magazine instead of one page.  Have you out there in blog world heard of this magazine?  The story that goes with the photo is that back in the early 1800's there was an album quilt and it found it's way years later in a covered wagon to California and then worn out and mellow, it became a horse blanket.  A woman took the quilt and copied off her favorite block, a fan and called it Dobbin's Fan.  Cool story.  Reminds me of the children's story book by Gail Radley called "The Spinner's Gift" which is almost the same story. 

I really like this pattern.  It looks elegant.