Red & Green Antique Quilt Festival Day 31

Antique signature quilt from New Jersey made in about 1850 for Elizabeth Hoppough. Starley Quilt collection. Great midcentury fabrics. Enjoy!

Red & Green Antique Quilt Festival -Day 25

Lots of Red and Green on this early 1840s antique signature quilt from Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Sandra Starley Collection.

1840s Quaker Signature Quilt - Antique Signature Quilt

Wonderful signature quilt from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Quaker signators. Love the mostly green which isn't seen very often in signature quilts. Part of the Sign of the Times Trunk Show.

Block with amazing detailed inkings.

Block with Quaker dating "1846 10th mo 25th (day)."

Another with a lovely grey-blue print

Antique New Jersey Signature Quilt

Thought I'd share some more of this New Jersey signature quilt made for Elizabeth Hoppough in about 1850.

Look at the tiny scale and detail of that green print - yes, print! Click on the photo to enlarge. And the pink print is precious too.

Here's Elizabeth block:
from Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  Main surname is Hoppough and was likely made for Elizabeth Hoppough whose name and birth date of 1835 are listed in a center block and her parents are also on the quilts as well as their next door neighbor Elizabeth Neighbor (no, I can't make this stuff up).

And you've got to love those hearts and there is another delicate green print. Click to see detail

1840s New Jersey Signature Album

More from the dated 1846 New Jersey signature album .. this will take some investigating.  One of the 1st questions is what are the weird fractions with the dates?

1840s Antique Signature Quilt - Star Quilt - New Jersey

Such beautiful fabrics on this star signature quilt from Hunterdon Co. New Jersey, dated 1842. Starley Collection. Signature Quilt Trunk show.

Isn't this blue yummy! And the quilt has some exquisite inkings like a teeny Bible.

Have to love the wild paisley sashing. Don't forget to click on the photos to enlarge and see the details.

The full quilt.

Dated 1842 New Jersey Antique Sampler Quilt

Details of my 1842 antique signature quilt from Burlington Co New Jersey.
Love this heart appliqué - Meribah Kempton, Jacobstown. Google her & you’ll find she was part of a family legal case (or her estate was).

Sarah Rogers

Benjamin Rogers - Georgetown

Quilt show in Kansas!! Antique Signature Quilts and More

Please mark your calendars now to join me in Kansas City, Kansas JUNE 7-9. 2018 for the MOKA Quilt Study Group (MOKA means Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas) but everyone is welcome to sign up and attend. Here's just one of the signature quilts with amazing stories that I'll be sharing and you won't believe how beautiful it looks after its makeover ....

Dated 1848 Signature quilt from Barnegat, New Jersey. It was later finished with heavy wool batting, backed with plain feedsacks and tied closely with ties in the 1940s era.

 I rescued it from the hideous ties and heavy batting. It is now a beautiful top with fabrics that look like they were just printed.

Antique Signature Quilt -Wild Goose Chase 1850 New Jersey

An unusual antique signature quilt, part of my Sign of the Times antique quilt trunk show and quilt study class. This one is from North Western New Jersey, Warren County specifically. Wild Goose Chase is the pattern name. Quilt is dated 1850 and 1851.

It has unusual sentiments that are often focused on end of life or how neighbors should behave. The auction house listing noted "religious quotations, many associated with death". It appears that the maker surveyed her community and then did blocks listing neighbor's name and her advice for them of her opinions of them. Quite different from the ususal signature quilts where block makers would sign their names and write messages for the recipent of the quilt . 

In this block with Catharine M. Ellicot's name the message is
"Shun the paths of sin and folly.
Which lead to abject melancholy.
But walk the road to joy and bliss.
Where peace and love and Jesus is."

And in this block for Sarah E. Cole
"May Sarah be wise in this
valley below-
And look to the skies
where her spirit must go,
O may it there sing
To Jesus her King.

And on a textile note: in the block close ups, you'll see symmetrical hole in the turkey red fabrics. Those are caused by mordant to get dye to stay on the designs added to the fabrics or where the fabric was bleached to add patterns.

If you'd like to learn more about this quilt and other interesting antique quilts/ quilt history or about antique fabrics and quilts, please feel free to contact me to arrange a trunk show or antique quilt history class. Or pass my name onto your guild or shop or show director looking for an entertaining and educational presenter. Thanks.

Antique Quilt -1850 New Jersey Signature Quilt Part 2

To see the full quilt and more of the story of Elizabeth Hoppough's quilt from Hunterdon Co, New Jersey, click back to yesterday's post. To see more of my antique signature quilt collection, tell your guild or local shop or show, to contact me 

Here's the full block for George Edgar Cox

Don't you just love that tiny gingham check on Ms. Hoppough's block! People often think checks like this are modern repairs but they are definitely period prints.
**Note: one of the tricks to make a reproduction quilt look authentic is to mix prints and checks and plaids as that was a common practice in the 1800s.

And who can resist a Turkey Red and yellow floral strips and the leaf hearts!

And red & white polka dots - always a winner. And those other dots that kind of look like eyeballs ... so much wonderful fabric.

Antique Signature Quilt from New Jersey 1850

chimney album signature quilt from Hunterdon County, New Jersey. I'll post some close-ups below. Main surname is Hoppough and was likely made for Elizabeth Hoppough whose name and birth date of 1835 are listed in a center block and her parents are also on the quilts as well as their next door neighbor Elizabeth Neighbor (no, I can't make this stuff up).

Don't you love this heart fabric !

And this amazing dark Prussian Blue carnation? print

Here's the dedication block for Elizabeth Hoppough who was born in 1835 in Hunterdon Co, NJ. -Western New Jersey next to Pennsylvania. You can see the chrome orange dye was not stable.

And the sashing is a two step green (yellow + blue) and the yellow has come out in  spots leaving only blue. ps. nice zigzag quilting