Just loved this wild zigzag quilt from the 1920s at the Mill Yard Museum. It is an unusual pattern that I hadn't seen before. But in proof of 'everything old is new again', I found that Victoria Findlay Wolfe has created a very similar effect with new modern methods in her new book "Modern Quilt Magic".
And I can never resist a log cabin especially a graphic barn raising like this one
View of the old Amoskeag Mills in Manchester New Hampshire
Garden of Eden Quilt
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A number of years ago, I collected an antique quilt even though it is in
very poor condition and even though the piecing on it was not accurate or
up to o...
10 hours ago
Very special the V-shaped pattern, but always love a really traditional logcabin. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteJust enlarged the picture of that log cabin quilt.... the center and the rest, it looks like 2 different quilts! Did she change her mind? Did 2 people work on this? Was one of them not able to finish the blocks into a whole quilt? Looks like there is a story here.... I love that about the antiques <3
ReplyDeleteTwo exciting quilts! That zig-zag has my mind reeling!
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