Quilt Pattern Question
#22
http://julieisa.blogspot.com/2010/09/answers.html look at the cute quilt under the word HOME. I have this one, it's a bit on the same vain as the photo you posted. I love it and hope to make it one of these days.
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At first glance it looks like the outline of a young pioneer girl. Perhaps it was made for granddaughter by a quilter who had a lot of time on her hands. Sorry ladies, that's all I've got LOL. Beautiful work though.
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This topic piqued my interest and I have spent 3 days looking through my quilt history books to find something like this figure. It is like the shape of women in the long dresses with very full shirts of the 1850-1880 era; they also wore their hair tight to the head, often in a bun at the nape. I found some very similar figures in quilts in chapters 8 & 9 of Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women by C & T Publishing. I know I've seen a quilt like this before, but can't seem to find the picture.
The gray we see may have been a blue often called Lancaster blue, common in quilts of the 1860-1880 era. These blues often turn gray-blue when they are exposed to liquids, such as being washed. Many, many fabrics were home dyed in those days using natural botanical dyes. It would be so neat to be able to carefully examine a seam in this quilt to know for sure what the original colors were.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Jan in VA
The gray we see may have been a blue often called Lancaster blue, common in quilts of the 1860-1880 era. These blues often turn gray-blue when they are exposed to liquids, such as being washed. Many, many fabrics were home dyed in those days using natural botanical dyes. It would be so neat to be able to carefully examine a seam in this quilt to know for sure what the original colors were.
Thank you for sharing this with us!
Jan in VA
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