BlockBase #3758 All the quilt photos are from online auctions. Ruth Finley called this variation on a star block Circling Swallows, Flying Swallows and Falling Star. The pattern is hard to see. Here's a BlockBase/EQ7 drawing. In her 1929 index to patterns, Finley wrote that the pattern dates from about 1800, a very dubious date. I don't have any pictures of the design earlier than the 1930s or '40s. Finley was probably responsible for popularizing it in the 1930s. The Quilt Index has 8 examples that I could find, dating from the 1930s to the 1980s. So it's not a really old pattern, but one with a lot of potential. Laura Wheeler pattern for "Wreath"