Underground Railroad Quilt Codes Bear Paws

How the Underground Railroad used these 19 Quilt Blocks to form a language to assist in freeing slaves.

Bow Ties is very similar to the pinwheel square.

A copy of the first 4 pages of the phamplet.

Shoofly. A great way to make trianglesusing squares. Using seams and an iron exact points are easy to make.

The 7th block in the pamplet. Underground Railroad Quilt Codes. First cut out all desired size blocks and sew in strips as shown. As pictured ab...

The Bear Paw is farely easy square to make. The triangles are made just like the North Star triangles. Again I sew point to opposite point of two squares. Then iron open and trim. I used 2" squares and my big blocks were 31/2" The strips were 2 inches wide. Center block is also 2" x 2". Block size when complete is 11 x 11".