Sunbonnet Sue Thirft Store Find
01-08-2023, 04:23 PM
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Sunbonnet Sue Thirft Store Find
Sunbonnet Sue quilts find their way to me. Here is one I found that needs repairs but the embroidery is lovely. The hands are sewn in like prairie points. Fabric appears date to the 1940s but I am not a fabric specialist. The batting was an old table cloth. There are nineteen different Sunbonnet Sues. The entire quilt, a close-up of the batting, and a couple of the Sunbonnet Sues are depicted here to dazzle you. There are no markings on the back of the quilt to indicate date or maker. Quilted with red thread in vertical lines.
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01-08-2023, 06:28 PM
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THAT'S Her!!!
Been looking for Momma's Sunbonnet Sue for about 5 years. This is Her. I can get the pattern off the picture and will be able to start making my replacement quilt.
Thanks for posting the pictures, Ibex94. Don't lnow about anyone else but you made my (night) Day.
Been looking for Momma's Sunbonnet Sue for about 5 years. This is Her. I can get the pattern off the picture and will be able to start making my replacement quilt.
Thanks for posting the pictures, Ibex94. Don't lnow about anyone else but you made my (night) Day.
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01-09-2023, 02:15 PM
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I am so glad my find is helping someone else, too. Are hers embroidered, too? Does she have that wonderful three dimensional hand? Notice that all the dresses are not shaped identically on this quilt. Is the layout the same? Was she set up on strips of pink and white like this one was? The pink in this quilt is blush pink now. I wonder what color pink it was originally....
01-09-2023, 03:20 PM
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Those are adorable, Ibex! I love the one with the blue dress and little white bonnet.
Thank you for posting.
There are lots and lots of free sunbonnet sue patterns available online...early versions "sophisticated sue" versions and more.
Here's one from Marti Mitchell that includes overall sam:
https://frommarti.com/pages/free-patterns
(this is the link to the sue and sam patterns from that page):
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05...f?v=1649185102
and another from Quilter's Cache
https://www.quilterscache.com/S/SunbonnetSueBlock.html
more here:
https://www.freequilt.com/the-parasol-lady.html
Thank you for posting.
There are lots and lots of free sunbonnet sue patterns available online...early versions "sophisticated sue" versions and more.
Here's one from Marti Mitchell that includes overall sam:
https://frommarti.com/pages/free-patterns
(this is the link to the sue and sam patterns from that page):
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05...f?v=1649185102
and another from Quilter's Cache
https://www.quilterscache.com/S/SunbonnetSueBlock.html
more here:
https://www.freequilt.com/the-parasol-lady.html
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01-09-2023, 03:32 PM
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These look sooooo much like the ones I was left by my grandmother! Mine were made with real flour sack fabrics in the 1030s, but she never put the blocks into a quilt. I took the blocks in the best shape, backed them with super lightweight fusible interfacing (they were on fragile muslin), and put them together with some sashing and cornerstones. I am sure the ones I have were made off the same pattern Ibex showed. You can see even the hand embroidery is the same.
01-09-2023, 06:15 PM
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These look sooooo much like the ones I was left by my grandmother! Mine were made with real flour sack fabrics in the 1030s, but she never put the blocks into a quilt. I took the blocks in the best shape, backed them with super lightweight fusible interfacing (they were on fragile muslin), and put them together with some sashing and cornerstones. I am sure the ones I have were made off the same pattern Ibex showed. You can see even the hand embroidery is the same.
01-09-2023, 06:17 PM
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These look sooooo much like the ones I was left by my grandmother! Mine were made with real flour sack fabrics in the 1030s, but she never put the blocks into a quilt. I took the blocks in the best shape, backed them with super lightweight fusible interfacing (they were on fragile muslin), and put them together with some sashing and cornerstones. I am sure the ones I have were made off the same pattern Ibex showed. You can see even the hand embroidery is the same.
01-09-2023, 06:47 PM
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I am so glad my find is helping someone else, too. Are hers embroidered, too? Does she have that wonderful three dimensional hand? Notice that all the dresses are not shaped identically on this quilt. Is the layout the same? Was she set up on strips of pink and white like this one was? The pink in this quilt is blush pink now. I wonder what color pink it was originally....
