Cabin in the Mountains

Today’s block comes from the 1930's Nancy Cabot quilt column in the Chicago Tribune. Nancy Cabot was a pen name for Loretta Isabel Leitner Rising. She was born in 1907 (or possibly 1906) in Illinois, the daughter of Irish immigrants. Her father was a jeweler’s accountant and her mother an accomplished dressmaker who designed clothing for Marshall Fields. She worked at the Tribune for 32 years. Many of the traditional quilt blocks that have appeared here can be traced back to her column. In the center of today’s block is a very simple log cabin surrounded by jagged mountain peaks. In the Nancy Cabot column its name is given as Rocky Mountain Puzzle. I made a block by that name for this blog in 2010. I used two prints with far too similar values, and was deeply disappointed in the outcome. I like this scrappy, less ambiguous block much better.