Why I quilt
02-09-2011, 06:11 PM
#11
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Eastern Montana
Posts: 175
I have quilted several antique quilts for customers. I agree they need to be finished. I love the idea of people using these precious quilts and loving them. The history being pasted down is truly is a treasure!
Think how happy your grandmother would be know so many will ge to see and enjoy her handy work.
Keep us posted on what you decide.
Think how happy your grandmother would be know so many will ge to see and enjoy her handy work.
Keep us posted on what you decide.
02-09-2011, 06:52 PM
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,408
WOW! Some awesome quilts there, and I agree not every quilt needs a border, a lot of the older quilts in museums don't, I think it may have something to do with the fact they used scraps from the clothes they made and didn't have the yardage for borders. Again BEAUTIFUL quilts.
I do hope you find a way to finish them so that they can be truly enjoyed and not just in a box. Good luck! :D :D
I do hope you find a way to finish them so that they can be truly enjoyed and not just in a box. Good luck! :D :D
02-09-2011, 07:01 PM
#19
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,432
A couple of years ago, a family emailed us after finding our website in the local paper's Tourist Guide. She said that her grandmother & grandfather had lived on our farm in the 1940s and she asked if they could come to meet us and see the farm and house again after all these years. Of course they could, we said!
She brought 5 quilt tops to show us, pieced tops that her grandmother had made in our farm house about 70 years ago! It was such a treat to see them, and they were beautifully pieced, a few even hand pieced.
She asked me to long arm quilt one of them, which I offered to do for no charge since they had been made here, and now had come back to be finished - I thought that was so neat. I told her about storing the rest of the tops unquilted and being folded all the time, and how they'd enjoy them much more, and they'd last longer if they were all quilted and enjoyed out for display. She let me quilt them all and when they came to get them, they were thrilled with how nice they looked all finished.
I would encourage you to quilt all your old tops, repairing the blocks as needed and only adding vintage looking fabric for borders if you have to. A quilt is only as old as the newest fabric on it, so leave them as original as you can.
They are all lovely, and I really enjoyed seeing them!
www.wallacehomesteadfarm.com
Janie
She brought 5 quilt tops to show us, pieced tops that her grandmother had made in our farm house about 70 years ago! It was such a treat to see them, and they were beautifully pieced, a few even hand pieced.
She asked me to long arm quilt one of them, which I offered to do for no charge since they had been made here, and now had come back to be finished - I thought that was so neat. I told her about storing the rest of the tops unquilted and being folded all the time, and how they'd enjoy them much more, and they'd last longer if they were all quilted and enjoyed out for display. She let me quilt them all and when they came to get them, they were thrilled with how nice they looked all finished.
I would encourage you to quilt all your old tops, repairing the blocks as needed and only adding vintage looking fabric for borders if you have to. A quilt is only as old as the newest fabric on it, so leave them as original as you can.
They are all lovely, and I really enjoyed seeing them!
www.wallacehomesteadfarm.com
Janie
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