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The listing, QUILT TOP has ended.

I may have to take another picture to show how this quilt top looks but I wanted to get pictures of the handiwork. The red bird is embroidered and the blue part is some kind of hand sewing. The blocks are sewed together by hand not by a machine. It's unusual the way they put the blocks together but you have to remember that they didn't have a lot of access to material.

Questions & Comments

I was going to take the best blocks apart and make a couple of pillows from them.

Jan 29th, 2013 at 12:34:16 PM PST by

Hi! What size quilt will this quilt top make?-Bearmania/cannabearfish@hotmail.com

Jan 31st, 2013 at 3:33:10 PM PST by

I will measure it tomorrow and let you know how big it is. I think I should have put it under sewing. I thought since the blocks were hand sewed together that it was probably an antique especially the handiwork on the birds and poodles. So I had one member say that the quilt was 15-20 years old.

Jan 31st, 2013 at 9:23:06 PM PST by

the handiwork is nicely done, i have some some of the same sunflower fabrics which would help in dating this piece as maybe 15-20 years old...the TRUE value is in the hand-stitching, not alot of people still hand-stitch their quilt blocks!! F/W

Jan 31st, 2013 at 5:27:25 PM PST by

My Mother-in-Law hand quilts the tops but she sews her blocks together on the machine. I think the embroidery and the quill looking blocks look older than the regular blocks. My Mother-in-Law's stitches are better looking than this one. I will measure the quilt to give you a size. I thought about it and it should be under sew but I thought the blocks not put together by a machine meant it was old. Do you know how I could put it under that catagory?

Jan 31st, 2013 at 9:20:12 PM PST by

i think its adorable!

Feb 3rd, 2013 at 8:14:08 AM PST by

Thank you! I can just imagine this day and time some poor woman hand-stiching those blocks together. To do them by machine is enough and then the ones that are hand-embroidered. I was going to make pillows by them because some of them aren't matched exactly but I couldn't bear to cu it apart.

Feb 3rd, 2013 at 2:59:05 PM PST by

If you don't get mad credits for this it is a sin!! The blue stitching is called candlewicking and the cardinal is embroider. This is most definately vintage for the handiwork (pure 70s] although I'm certain a few of those fabrics are from the mid 60s. There was a revival of quilting and making patchwork by hand in the early 70s-it is my opinion that this dates from then. One could most definately finish this-machine quilting would reinforce the seams and there are good sources for reproduction fabric where one could probably match some of what is there to enlarge it if they wanted to. If only I could justify getting any more textiles I'd be bidding instead of talking! Just lovely!!

Feb 4th, 2013 at 6:27:38 PM PST by

F & W

Feb 4th, 2013 at 8:47:04 PM PST by

QUILT TOP is in the Antiques category