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Dutchman's Puzzle

Design with this block
Diagram of the Dutchman's Puzzle quilt block layout

About this block

This block is built from eight flying geese units arranged symmetrically around a center point, forming a spinning pinwheel effect. It has a well-documented print history: it appeared in the Ohio Farmer magazine in 1894 as "Wheel," then again in 1898 as "Dutchman's Wheel," before the Ladies Art Company published it that same year under the name Dutchman's Puzzle, the name that stuck as most common.

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