Quilt patterns

[NGE]

My mother just recently gave each of us kids (5) one of the quilts that her mother hand stitched herself about 105 years ago. They were stored properly and have survived to this day. Only one is a double bed size (which I got) for my queen bed. What I want to know is, does anyone recognize the patterns, mom has forgotten? They all have cotton batten in the middles, muslin on the backs. thanks in advance..........NGE

 

[Woodland Detectors]

I am not a quilter or a connoisseur but, I have been told enough to know those took serious work.

Nice

 

[NGE]

Yes, I know they took some serious time, when I was a little bitty guy, I used to play underneath the quilting rack, while my mom and her mother used to get together to work on a quilt. One that they were working on, took over 6 months to finish. I don't know if you know, that there is another way to tell that a quilt was authentically hand sewn? When I got home and in better light, I saw some small brown spots in random areas on the top side of my quilt and right away I thought it was bug s*it. She laughed at me and said, " no honey, it is blood!" You see, we had gazillions of str8 pins holding the blocks to the quilt, and every now and then when we were sewing the blocks on, we would get stuck by the pins that were holding them down and would get small specks of blood on the quilt. Must have been like trying to stitch up an injured porkypine ............NGE Btw, my grandmother only ever took one order for a hand sewn quilt, it took her 9 months and she accepted 2400.00 for it she said she would never ever do that again! NGE

 

[spartacus53]

Lovely quilt, a visit to Roadshow Antiques, should not be out of the question

 

[Icandigit]

Well my wife says the one labeled brothers quilt is called a Carpenters Wheel. She is still researching the other one. She has been quilting since her grandma taught her how and it is kind of sad that it is a dying art to hand sew those things. They are real nice and hopefully she will find out what the other one is

 

[Icandigit]

The first one she thinks is called "Star and Crown " so hope this helps you out

 

[rginn]

Oh excellent pics, nge, and near and dear to my heart! The first quilt is not that old and no offense, but the stitchwork is not quite up there but they made up for that in pattern placement, fine work still. The next quilt is killer and you should post some closer pics, cause it's beautiful. You can sometimes look at how they finished off the end of a line and determine if it's machine made or hand sewn. (That doesn't make sense in words) The ladies in my family would hit 11 stitches to the inch by hand easy. All the patterns had names and some were very old and passed down from mother to daughter. We used to make quilts all the time. They would cut pieces from flour sacks (flour used to come in large bags of printed material that was used for making clothing, etc.) and worn out shirts and dresses. They also made heavy quilts, which you don't hear much about because they were made for warmth, not looks. They generally consisted of 4 by 4 squares sewn together and the quilt was about 3 or 4 inches thick. We still have the quilting frames. Nobody uses them. This age has to have everything right now and tends to get po'd if something takes more than 3 or 4 minutes. (Watch people in line at a supermarket) I can get in the truck and drive to the store and buy a quilt for about $15 and be back home using it in under 20 minutes. Look at the time I saved! In order to...save more time? Great heirlooms you got there, hang on to them.

 

[truckinbutch]

RGINN ,
Know exactly what you are talking about . I woke up many a morning in the loft of a log house with 2 or 3 of those real quilts on top of me and a dusting of snow on top of them .
My daughters are still quilting under the direction of their 86 yr young Grandma , using original frames she got from her mother .
Jim