"One Patch"—stacked rectangles with pieced borders

The square is simplest patchwork form. The "One Patch," based on a grid of squares, is a quiltmaking archetype that leads into patterns of its multiples: "Four Patch,""Nine Patch," and so on. These are often the first templates learned by young girls, who occasionally return to it later in life, as Annie Mae Young did, with a mature sense of color and a zeal for reinventing the basics.