What is a lemoyne Star, other than a quilt pattern?
It all starts on a fateful day in 1699… The first permanent European settlers in the Southeast US were French. The LeMoyne brothers, Pierre LeMoyne, the Sieur d’Iberville, and Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, the Sieur de Bienville, sailed into Mobile Bay in 1699. By 1711, Fort Louis (on the present site of Mobile, Alabama) had been settled as the capital of the French colony known as Louisiana. (1) “The earliest published date of the LeMoyne star is in a collection of patterns attributed to Joseph Doyle in 1911, according to Barbara Brackman’s Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. The configuration falls into the category of “Eight-pointed/45 degree Diamond Stars”. Doyle called this pattern “Puritan Star”.” (2) No word in what I’ve found on how Puritan Star became the LeMoyne Star.
