Points points points

This is a picture of a smaller vision of the quilt

These are 4 of my blocks

I am making a quilt for the Historical Society in Bemidji.  They will be  raffling it off this spring as a money raiser.  Well the pattern that we agreed  to has 12 points to match in each block and there are 30 blocks.  Well, I am half done.
The block pattern I chose goes by several names.   Rosebuds, bright star, crow’s foot, Hummingbird comfort, and Maple leaf.  When it is placed in a quilt like this one it is called rosebuds.  This is a replica of the first quilt called rosebuds.  It was called that as it commemorates a civil works project in California.  One of the first civil works progress projects built under the works progress administration (WPA) was the Berkley Rose Garden considered by many to be the finest rose garden in Northern California.  The WPA was an agency created during the depression to create jobs through government sponsored projects.  The Rose Garden conceived in 1933 and completed in 1937, has 3000 rose bushes and 250 varieties of roses, along with the breathe taking view of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate bridge.
I chose replica civil war prints for this quilt.  Historians often think of the Civil War Era as the years from 1850 to 1880. The American Abolition Movement began in the early 1830s. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", serialized in a Washington newspaper, 1851-52, brought many of the issues to a wider audience. The American Civil War began in April 1861 and was concluded by April 1865. Reconstuction efforts had ended by 1880.
The dramatic growth of the British textile industry in the early 19th century fueled the demand for cotton which soon became the leading US export commodity. Annual domestic cloth production in the decade from 1846 to 1856 grew from 13.5 million to 97 million yards. American merchants imported an additional $17 million dollars worth of printed and dyed cotton in 1854. The selection must have been almost overwhelming!
Fabrics of the Civil War Era. Dye colors: Indigo blue, shades of red plus dull lavenders and many browns.  Print styles: Foulard style prints in geomentrics and florals plus plaids, plaids and more plaids...printed and woven.