Great Grandmother's 1930's quilt top
12-01-2010, 03:59 AM
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How lucky for you to have this beautiful quilt top...Hope you hand quilt it.....as it's one that took your GG mega, mega hours to make. It deserves the gentleness of hand stitching.... Hand quilting is sewwwwwwwww relaxing and it SLOWS us down... Since we live in such a hurried world..... it forces us to take time to SMELL the ROSES. :) Machine quilting is BEAUTIFUL on the modern quilts of today. BUT antique quilts should be preserved to represent a more peaceful, slower paced time in this world.
You have a real TREASURE in your hands. SEW BEAUTIFUL!
You have a real TREASURE in your hands. SEW BEAUTIFUL!
12-01-2010, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by darlin121
Originally Posted by mrspete
By the way, do you have any notion what the name of the pattern might be? Lucky you.
The quilt is really pretty.
What a lovley time you will have working on this by hand.
Jan in VA
12-01-2010, 06:30 AM
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As so many have said, what a treasure this is! How fun it will be to handquilt it and bring you so close to your great grandmother. I envisioned a celtic trinity knot in the green triangles but then I found an image of a celtic trinity heart. This would be a lovely quilting motif in the solid triangles. Here is a link to the image I found.
http://www.whyknot-massage.com/asset...es/theknot.jpg
I know you didn't ask for input on how to quilt it but couldn't resist. ;-)
PS: welcome to the board!
http://www.whyknot-massage.com/asset...es/theknot.jpg
I know you didn't ask for input on how to quilt it but couldn't resist. ;-)
PS: welcome to the board!
12-01-2010, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by MistyMarie
I was given a quilt top that has very similar colors. I wonder if it is from that era. I don't know what to do with it. It was hand pieced and I don't hand quilt. I hate to put it on a machine to quilt when someone spent so much time hand-piecing it. I think you will do it justice to hand-quilt it.
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