My Great-Grandmother's Blocks
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I inherited 80 fan blocks that my grandmother told me her mother had made. When I opened the bag I found that the pattern pieces were there too. The pattern is cut out of a newspaper or other publication with printing on the backside. From reading the articles I believe it is Home and Farm, definately published in Arkansas. There are two partial dates I found, one showing the year 1936.
I plan on finishing the quilt using an unbleached muslin to complete the fan blocks.
The attached picture of the pattern pieces is just two of them.
I plan on finishing the quilt using an unbleached muslin to complete the fan blocks.
The attached picture of the pattern pieces is just two of them.
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Very cool!
I hope you took the originals and put them in archive paper and put in a ziploc bag with a small bag of dessicant...for preserving...
With your copies, make a few since this looks like an intensive quilt you made need to make several templates...
This is a fantasitic find. Please remember to put all peritinent info in the ziploc and at another place...
This is irreplacable.
K
I hope you took the originals and put them in archive paper and put in a ziploc bag with a small bag of dessicant...for preserving...
With your copies, make a few since this looks like an intensive quilt you made need to make several templates...
This is a fantasitic find. Please remember to put all peritinent info in the ziploc and at another place...
This is irreplacable.
K
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