The darktown patchquilt puzzle

Puzzle

I have already shown how a 13x 13 patchquilt could be divided into eleven squares, so, as a further continuation of the same subject, I will ask you to try to find how the ladies of Darktown combined eleven square pieces of patch work, no piece containing less than four squares, into a beautiful 12x12 patchquilt, which they presented to Pason Cinch. I say every piece must contain not less than four patches because without that stipulation there are two different answers. This is a way that puzzle makers have of patching up patchquilt puzzles, but so long as I have stated that there is a way of performing the feat by utilizing one little square of but one patch, it may as well be presented as a second puzzle, so see if you are clever enough to discover both answers.

Answer

The Darktown Patchquilt calls for

two ways of getting eleven squares, so both answers are given:

References

• Loyd, Sam [1914]. in Loyd, Sam, Jr.: Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles Tricks and Conundrums (in English). New York: Lamb Publishing company, page 65.