Rodeo

Today’s block is a twin to the Irish Chain I posted St. Patrick’s Day 2011. The only difference is that was green and white while this is green, cream and brown. The pattern, the fabric and the name Rodeo came from the Quilts Etc. B.O.M. class earlier this month. The Irish Chain pattern came from the same class in November 2008. Why repeat old blocks? Perhaps because drafting instructions for a new block is labor intensive and error-prone. Maybe they think few people are likely to take this class for more than five years in a row. This month Quilts Etc. announced that next year’s class will be about Barn Quilts – the quilt designs painted on the sides of barns. If they draw the patterns from Eleanor Burns’ book, “Quilt Blocks on American Barns,” we might be repeating Broken Wheel, Farmer’s Daughter, Corn & Beans, and Hens & Chicks. Oh, bother.