Today's antique hand quilted quilt from the Starley Quilt Collection is a Caesar's Crown quilt It features decorative quilted details and a beautiful cable border.
It has delightful bright red/green/yellow print fabrics and each block has a signature and an inscription. The crowning detail is the ownership/dedication block "Elizabeth Bickel or Bectel -His (sic) Property In the Year of Our Lord 1851".
This beautiful signature/friendship quilt is from Berks and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The names were inscribed by a professional paid signer, known as a scrivener.
Monday - Design Wall
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Yesterday we had Halloween Treats for our
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I made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies and Chocolate No-Bakes.
Aka: "Gorilla Poops"
I made a mountai...
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Wow, Beautiful!
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