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There is no organized pattern of these squares. |
Last eventing (Thursday) I finished the embroidery of my children's Great and Great-Great Grandmother's names as well as mine on three quilt blocks since I am finishing these quilts.
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1869 was the birth date of the first hands to work this fabric, then 1889, very humbling for me to touch this. |
I am having second thoughts though that maybe I should go back and include the grandmother who gave me these even she said she did none of the work on them??? There are later ones she did do and I will put her name on them. I don't know, anybody want to comment? I am all ears!
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Hand basting helps a lot when working with big pieces of textiles. |
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You can tell these again are very old fabric patterns. |
Anyway this afternoon I cleaned off the dining room table and put the backing, batting, and quilt top all together and got it pinned and then hand basted together. Lastly I trimmed it. I still am unsure what to do next. The fabric is old, old, old as you can see. There is no planned pattern, more of a made for warmth and necessity quilt by country folk of generations ago. Which is what I love about these!
Since it is not just old but all hand stitched I think it might be fragile and be better less worked. Also since it is dark it might be nice tufted with red yarn? There is a red tiny tiny candy cane pattern in some of the squares which makes me want to take it to a more holiday feel? I don't know though!
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I love the blanket stitched edges on this heavy old comforter. |
Normally I am very decisive but this one has me in a quandary. I loved the way the blanket stitched edges turned out on the first one (The Crazy quilt.) and am thinking I may repeat that again here. I think the dark colors will carry it....well maybe? Here is the link to the first pieced top I worked if you would like to see what I am speaking about.
thehiddenpantry.blogspot.com/2013/09/today-crazy-quilt-ida-bell-and-ellen.html
One thing is for sure, it is 3:30 PM on Friday and I am pooped! So I will sleep on it. Tomorrow is another day.
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