Jubilee

This block is the basis for the quilt on Auntie Em’s bed in the beginning of the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. It’s a one-block quilt with very large blocks – at least 16”. Each one uses 48 half-square triangles, and each one features a different dark print against a solid or near solid pale background. Because that part of the movie is in black and white, there’s no way to know what color the quilt was, or even if each block was a different color. L. Frank Baum’s book says: “When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also.” If Aunt Em made this quilt in her youth for her hope chest, I believe she’d have made it red.