Basket Day - Antique Quilts

Some fun antique quilts with baskets from the Starley Collection. Enjoy.

More Antique Tumbling Block Star Quilt

A bit more of the Tumbling Block Star Quilt with the careful color placement and amazing fabrics! Just look at how she used almost exact matching fabrics in her sets of opposing star points -even in the solid center star.

Look at those two green prints - she had a large fabric collection to get such matching fabrics. OR perhaps the group making these in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania shared/swapped fabrics.

And look how close the pinks and brown sets match!

More Tumbling Block Stars - Antique Quilt

Another one of my Tumbling Block Stars from Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania. This maker was very careful with her color placement. Each set of opposing star points have almost duplicate fabrics! Part of my Antique Quilt Masterpieces trunk show.

Also has lots of wonderful novelty, conversation prints like this circus dog.

And this nice dog print.

Tumbling Stars Quilt - Great Antique Fabrics

Some fabulous 1870s/1880s fabrics in this Tumbling Block Star Quilt from Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Enjoy

Early Bethlehem or Mathematical Star Quilt

Such a striking early Bethlehem Star Quilt also called a Mathematical Star because of the drafting/piecing skill required to make this very difficult pattern. Part of my Quilt Masterpieces/Quilt Stars trunk show and also my Patterns Through Time lecture.

More Patterns Through Time

More examples from my Patterns Through Time trunk show

Caesar's Crown #1

Caesar's Crown #2

Flying Geese #1

Flying Geese #2

More Patterns Through Time

Two more examples from my “Patterns Through Time” trunkshow of antique quilts. Today’s spotlight is 9 Patch quilts: an uneven 9 Patch and a Double 9 Patch.

 

Patterns Through Time Trunkshow

Love sharing my antique treasures - a popular trunk shows is Patterns Through Time where I  share several different examples of a variety of patterns and teach about quilt history 

Southern Quilts

Antique Maryland quilt -

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Antique treasures from MOKA

Hexagon Stars

Antique hexagon quilts make me smile

More beautiful antique fabrics from MOKA

If you ever get a chance to attend the national American Quilt Study Group (AQSG) or the regional group Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Arkansas Quilt Study Group or one of the many other regional groups - Run, don’t walk! I’m still reveling in all the treasures I saw at MOKA in June! Here are a couple of fab quilts. 

More Antique Star Treasures from MOKA

Here are a  couple of fab  antique star quilts from MOKA Quilt Study Group

1848 antique signature quilt

What fun to find the twin fabric in reference book!  Book fabric is dated 1846 and quilted is dated 1848!

 What a an amazing quilt with killer provenance. Chicopee Massachusetts. Part of my antique signature quilt trunk show.