tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60288958341920455042024-02-18T18:38:52.643-05:00Quilt FlapThis blog is for and about vintage and antique quilts and the folks who love them. We get together and show our quilts. Hence the term 'quilt flap,' as in, drag-n-brag or show-n-tell. Starting in coastal North Carolina, a region of the American South with lots of history and mosquitoes, we hope other people will join us as we search out textile treasures and share them on this blog.Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-55904359914459296962021-06-15T11:44:00.000-04:002021-06-15T11:44:24.962-04:00The Yellow String Quilt<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTIWA68IykxIVHacmHVhN1ERR1XIxxwAhgSjgLAiKHG3UXkISknJLe2i5xwvbVIwOByYSV6kthHu2fWqOc426ZWBdFqb_vcPw_IRJYiPjnrTCBkC2nR6Fik5X0_ZTQKkc0CIEpwCTa_kP/s567/Yellow+string+quilt+1+from+Florida+ebay.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTIWA68IykxIVHacmHVhN1ERR1XIxxwAhgSjgLAiKHG3UXkISknJLe2i5xwvbVIwOByYSV6kthHu2fWqOc426ZWBdFqb_vcPw_IRJYiPjnrTCBkC2nR6Fik5X0_ZTQKkc0CIEpwCTa_kP/s320/Yellow+string+quilt+1+from+Florida+ebay.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On the eBay pictures, the quilt didn't look quite as ratty as it really was in person. The box came and I opened it quickly in anticipation of my 'clean Florida vintage quilt.' True, it was clean. The seller was proud of the fact that she'd washed it prior to putting it up for sale. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2PRi1j_89lcOR66BrJPJnS3vYIexnXrZ3Rwn8RPpCX-yplmMSNxuR9lMlgFJat252qsDSIpsiofksDLVNTMI-hQWiY_-Sd9cXfmXM0qz28XYPWkkw6u5fVauwZhl4dVCOvOcMQay8Uoj/s443/Yellow+string+quilt+2+block+with+worn+orange.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="433" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2PRi1j_89lcOR66BrJPJnS3vYIexnXrZ3Rwn8RPpCX-yplmMSNxuR9lMlgFJat252qsDSIpsiofksDLVNTMI-hQWiY_-Sd9cXfmXM0qz28XYPWkkw6u5fVauwZhl4dVCOvOcMQay8Uoj/s320/Yellow+string+quilt+2+block+with+worn+orange.JPG" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The quilt's condition proved that washing a vintage quilt in today's washing machines might be a mistake. It certainly was in this case. The cotton batting was gathered in small hard lumps throughout the quilt. If it hadn't been machine-quilted in straight lines all over the piece, the quilt would have come apart completely in the wash. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The string/Log Cabin blocks are sewn in sweet pastel prints from the 1930's. Each was outlined with either soft orange strips or dark navy strips. The navy-outlined blocks were the lucky ones as the orange-outlined strips were beginning to wear through everywhere. At last count, there's 42 repairs to be made on this quilt. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOMtwcv1NYYxk0XxQgOn_Soe_szqwusE6QxZ1bL67E5x97YWH2jQqyfLqEbyoy7v8ER48TBpnCf6k9Skelaajv7HCgBO0VRF-wLv939drXpJVqerpoLQLx0d1W6ZhACdkJ0UP2PtcdF5S_/s446/Yellow+string+quilt+3+not+worn+block.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOMtwcv1NYYxk0XxQgOn_Soe_szqwusE6QxZ1bL67E5x97YWH2jQqyfLqEbyoy7v8ER48TBpnCf6k9Skelaajv7HCgBO0VRF-wLv939drXpJVqerpoLQLx0d1W6ZhACdkJ0UP2PtcdF5S_/s320/Yellow+string+quilt+3+not+worn+block.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxrrCZJ7Bky9j1tbmIAYUsISTwjcNwDfYvnr213da2CeVjKjyOvEzTFGsliHq4lhOXBCim0MI7cxcG8sAWoCNQSMbWOq5UHyuLXwdHmWSgqzYCNH9p5yWiCF1u1vPardjOEbUkC-pjIPM/s423/Yellow+string+quilt+4+border+machine+quilting+and+lumps.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRxrrCZJ7Bky9j1tbmIAYUsISTwjcNwDfYvnr213da2CeVjKjyOvEzTFGsliHq4lhOXBCim0MI7cxcG8sAWoCNQSMbWOq5UHyuLXwdHmWSgqzYCNH9p5yWiCF1u1vPardjOEbUkC-pjIPM/s320/Yellow+string+quilt+4+border+machine+quilting+and+lumps.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The wide yellow border on this quilt makes the composition cheerful and gets it to bed size--in this case 64" wide by 84" long. The lines of machine quilting go right across this border and the batting clumps are evident. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpFzpT763NmAsx0jISFOf-3xRsyrJT3Iz5GJunV79JSqZAqHWoWw_lqyWT4_9A6bowywVSAo7tPFzv3LKYkQ0XFsbd48ScWnM9rbCV_epfAErPFYJUyFjMJSrOFQ4DZYC7gPjWNEll3ps/s488/Yellow+string+quilt+5+flannel+backing+and+lumps.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOpFzpT763NmAsx0jISFOf-3xRsyrJT3Iz5GJunV79JSqZAqHWoWw_lqyWT4_9A6bowywVSAo7tPFzv3LKYkQ0XFsbd48ScWnM9rbCV_epfAErPFYJUyFjMJSrOFQ4DZYC7gPjWNEll3ps/s320/Yellow+string+quilt+5+flannel+backing+and+lumps.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I'm thinking this might be an intergenerational quilt. The navy and orange strips around the blocks, the wide yellow border and even the thin floral flannel used as backing scream 1950's. And it's confidently machine-quilted. But the pastel prints are 30s and 40s--maybe Mom's work?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe someone found or inherited the vintage blocks? And then decided that they'd complete the quilt with a modern up-do. But vintage/modern don't always co-exist well as the uneven wear shows in this quilt.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It's still welcome in the collection-repairs or not. I'll just keep it safe for now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But it's a clean quilt--as the eBay seller stressed several times. Very clean.</span></p>Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-12358417933273150712020-12-06T20:30:00.001-05:002020-12-07T12:05:25.040-05:00Festive Quilts and Change<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdm3DG45GWUISz0_XgIoQYWtPBDzSJb99_-7vPWWsepOPIhF8tH2YC92Fhyn2-WYWI_UJkM9JpcaazFVnKRQ7j9oegYU6sq3ZW95PPg72WLdCUbPxz5zP9Jk8KlmAtm_q9vVOX9zoYFkY/s466/Rose+quilt+bought+Nov+2019+overall.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdm3DG45GWUISz0_XgIoQYWtPBDzSJb99_-7vPWWsepOPIhF8tH2YC92Fhyn2-WYWI_UJkM9JpcaazFVnKRQ7j9oegYU6sq3ZW95PPg72WLdCUbPxz5zP9Jk8KlmAtm_q9vVOX9zoYFkY/s320/Rose+quilt+bought+Nov+2019+overall.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Red, green and white are the three colors we always associate with the holidays. But the splash of cheddar in this North Carolina Rose Wreath quilts does add a tiny quirky touch. Found it last November at a local antique mall in Morehead City.</span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFlMxM8CtOG84H66oKJ0XQgj_Uc_Mbc6c0gNqfoRZg2zoH9Y2l_J0PFr4r9vBpnpu7lnhhpM1gM81dkD23B5QJeNqQhTtoRC2RQMZYx9h1YgIagBTtuUyGrCsQOeGIBJSmKcPmi1lJBxc/s2048/fran+and+her+quilt.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1653" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFlMxM8CtOG84H66oKJ0XQgj_Uc_Mbc6c0gNqfoRZg2zoH9Y2l_J0PFr4r9vBpnpu7lnhhpM1gM81dkD23B5QJeNqQhTtoRC2RQMZYx9h1YgIagBTtuUyGrCsQOeGIBJSmKcPmi1lJBxc/s320/fran+and+her+quilt.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>This red and white sampler quilt could certainly serve as holiday decoration but about five years ago I made it for my friend Fran Grossman whose favorite color is red. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqxY8NHWbZJo182VJwmvRcvG-VLBZevD5Fg0jqZHpymyqfX-g1wZK1wlNEq8Wob9B-SwHl_V3cKJM2RZ4ikHkZbirDqPmwayk4V6zIw7xCXZUvuamL8Q_84vVr9UR1a0wDoRsmG7picLZI/s2048/Mom%2527s+red+quilt+top.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1851" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqxY8NHWbZJo182VJwmvRcvG-VLBZevD5Fg0jqZHpymyqfX-g1wZK1wlNEq8Wob9B-SwHl_V3cKJM2RZ4ikHkZbirDqPmwayk4V6zIw7xCXZUvuamL8Q_84vVr9UR1a0wDoRsmG7picLZI/s320/Mom%2527s+red+quilt+top.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Come to think of it, my Mom's favorite color was also red and she made this quilt top. It's about time I got that out and finished it!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iaBR6tYS8XQVrjFrc2QIk2Qof8W5KfpI5qmbIJ0RkYWpcjWA4innULO4RyjtJydGp8qSGd8J8BRbm3VGRJsMjQ8KiigZzp6KHD9ikBtLfuMnDRdw78bZ2imlqk0DZycGMdOL2_6LglWa/s2048/Antique+NC+Lily.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4iaBR6tYS8XQVrjFrc2QIk2Qof8W5KfpI5qmbIJ0RkYWpcjWA4innULO4RyjtJydGp8qSGd8J8BRbm3VGRJsMjQ8KiigZzp6KHD9ikBtLfuMnDRdw78bZ2imlqk0DZycGMdOL2_6LglWa/s320/Antique+NC+Lily.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p>I think my all-time favorite is this North Carolina Lily. I bought this antique quilt at an auction. It's from Onslow County, N.C. January 1996-the very first year we lived in North Carolina. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvPfI-CqsInK_A1YKgphF_BBJT54dVGRvzTxiqQACcVkndmNlTPODDtrM5Dktly0jnyYkIGn_-XX4tggK7B8FpNpxKjtMQmpwVslakrlyL_go7lJTANisaLSowaiMA4RrVyZH4Eg54inw/s971/1+Carolina+Lily.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvPfI-CqsInK_A1YKgphF_BBJT54dVGRvzTxiqQACcVkndmNlTPODDtrM5Dktly0jnyYkIGn_-XX4tggK7B8FpNpxKjtMQmpwVslakrlyL_go7lJTANisaLSowaiMA4RrVyZH4Eg54inw/s320/1+Carolina+Lily.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A couple of years back I bought a really neat North Carolina Lily quilt from a friend who lived in Michigan. She told me her father, an ardent junker, had found a trunk by the side of the road in Detroit and in it was this quilt! She and I both agree that this quilt was probably the work of a Southern quiltmaker and that wouldn't have been unlikely since so many Southerners moved to the Detroit area to work in the auto/airplane factories and munitions plants in World War II. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I know it's not a strict red-and-green quilt but thought you might like to see it. It makes me smile every time I see it.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-dIM82RKNeTmhTwAJJEwe4wTAB2nA4lPQkQQm-_X5EwAImWG5kJj0MGfV3XapZXLooiau1bVFRm1bicPir-6b74HA1-2xZdc3Ivw8f4MmZ22qChHghkJcK6sllvE-KukLsQROZdQduore/s342/fancy+star+wip+5.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-dIM82RKNeTmhTwAJJEwe4wTAB2nA4lPQkQQm-_X5EwAImWG5kJj0MGfV3XapZXLooiau1bVFRm1bicPir-6b74HA1-2xZdc3Ivw8f4MmZ22qChHghkJcK6sllvE-KukLsQROZdQduore/s320/fancy+star+wip+5.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This year I made a red, white, yellow-green and black block for the Guild's Christmas exchange block. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Maybe my idea of what's really Christmas colors is changing?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvkA_RlTZ6eROno8aIJd8QkmpTuJ20jAdpedKbbDo_LYPBUajPWJv87rvPo-fyCJtUBSG1lTxDkWVmopYI_89SJr2Byg0ukgKT5NF5BhmMzHD71oxID9kc7QSgDm4LL6tYoY6bjmFD9VX/s2048/merry+christmas+and+more+quilting.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvkA_RlTZ6eROno8aIJd8QkmpTuJ20jAdpedKbbDo_LYPBUajPWJv87rvPo-fyCJtUBSG1lTxDkWVmopYI_89SJr2Byg0ukgKT5NF5BhmMzHD71oxID9kc7QSgDm4LL6tYoY6bjmFD9VX/s320/merry+christmas+and+more+quilting.jpg" /></span></a></div><p style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Change is my word of the year for 2021. The thing I missed most about 2020 and staying home to stay safe? Teaching. Meeting new people and teaching and encouraging folks to quilt is meat-and-drink for my soul. I hope we can do it again soon.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-47321164788080362020-05-24T00:08:00.005-04:002020-05-24T00:09:34.042-04:00Baskets and Quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A tisket, a tasket</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">OK-my basket's not green-and-yellow. It's gold with bitty yellow spots and big pink polka dots. For whatever reason, quilters love baskets. Depicted as pieced quilt designs or serving as handy storage for quilters' sewing tools, the basket is a symbol of domesticity as much as a handmade patchwork quilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a few basket quilts in my collection and have made several basket quilts myself. However, I've never made a real basket and can only admit that I am an admirer of the art of basketry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Advertised as being in good </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">condition, this quilt was actually a tattered beauty. But when I got it up on the fence to photograph, I was taken with its loopy charm. Crazy quilt + appliqued baskets! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This 1940s Basket quilt belongs to my friend Anne Hope Marvin. She found it as an unfinished top and sewed on the pink and blue borders and hand quilted it. It's from a wide place in the road called Black Jack, North Carolina (after a tree of the same name) and so I call it Black Jack Baskets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Black Jack Baskets inspired me to make a quilt of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">my own. Meet Black Jack Baby. Note: the quilt is not faded on the left. The picture was taken on a humid hotter-than-Hades day and the camera fogged up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And if you put something in the basket, it's even more interesting. Here is a North Carolina Lily block in some of my favorite colors. Not quilted yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sue Williams, a master basket-maker friend, identified my thrift store basket as almost certainly hand woven from oak. Enjoy this short video about Sue and her work. She was awarded the 2019 Heritage Folklife Award from the governor of Tennessee. </span><br />
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I'd always wanted a Seven Sisters (Seven Stars) quilt. All those little 60-degree diamonds and tiny triangles! Some quilt patterns you think you'll never make and if you're a quilt collector as well, these patterns are put on your 'bucket list.'<br />
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A little more than a month ago, I read a very average ebay description of a vintage quilt for sale. It was so boring "--old brown and green quilt--" that I'd normally never click on it. So glad I did! Up came a late 19th century Seven Sisters quilt. I watched the auction carefully and finally, at the last minute, placed a minimal bid. 'Seven' was mine! After some back-and-forth with the seller about shipping, I paid the Paypal invoice and waited.<br />
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A week later the quilt arrived in a recycled and battered box, bulging along the sides and one box seam splitting. I slit the packing tape very carefully wielding the knife sideways so as not to cut the quilt. And sure enough the quilt popped out of the box like those biscuits in a tube. The quilt hadn't been wrapped in paper or even put in a plastic garbage bag but rather just jammed in the old box and shipped. This sloppy treatment was a further clue (along with its unimaginative listing) that the quilt's seller didn't value the quilt highly.<br />
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I couldn't wait to get Seven up on the flannel design wall to take pictures! The photo revealed a slightly sun-faded area that the ebay pic had not shown and its overall condition was good rather than mint as advertised. But I still love it!<br />
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This Seven Sisters quilt has contained hexagonal blocks that finish into rectangles. Not a common method of dealing with a hexagonal block. The brown surrounding pieces also reach to touch brown squares where the teal green sashing crosses. It's a variant I haven't seen before. But the colors and the triple-bar border all scream 'Carolina.' Whether North or South I cannot say. Is the quilt actually an artifact of the Civil War? I'd say not as many of the fabrics in the patchwork date from the 1870s-1890s.<br />
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Ironically when I was putting the pictures of the Seven Sisters into a computer file, up popped two images of another Seven Sisters quilt. This is a quilt top and it is somewhere here in the shed, stored high above my head on the 8' shelf, folded with all the other vintage tops.<br />
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Excuse the crummy photos--these were taken with an ancient camera on a sunny and windy day while the quilt top hung on the clothesline. Since then I've become a somewhat more competent picture-taker. This quilt top has a different set than the new quilt. Here long bars of cheddar with tiny blue triangles keep the patchwork hexagons twirling over the surface of the quilt.<br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-26481812611360585032019-12-01T11:37:00.000-05:002019-12-01T11:42:19.085-05:00The Christmas Quilt #1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week we cruised a local antique mall. You know, the type where many dealers set up their booths but all the check-out happens at one desk up front. The sign on the door drew me in:<br />
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Meet the Christmas Quilt. The pattern is one of those ancient variations of Rose Wreath. The blocks are about 17" square and between the blocks are white sashings 6" wide and the two border 8" wide.<br />
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The visual kicker is what happens where the sashings intersect: neat little eight-point stars in cheddar orange against a green background.<br />
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The quilt only has two borders and while you might assume the two other borders had been cut off after some long-ago accident, the border quilting motifs and the neat red binding both look original to the piece. I think this quilt only ever had two borders--evidently the maker was after a particular size and when she achieved that, the construction of the quilt top ceased. I can relate to that.<br />
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In addition to all the applique work being accomplished in white thread (almost invisible stitches), the quilter also did a bit of reverse-applique. She cut a tiny hole in the center of her red flowers and pushed a small square of cheddar fabric down the hole and then smoothed it flat. The final step was using a small applique stitch to fold back and fasten the red fabric around the hole thus revealing an orange center for her flowers.<br />
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The hand quilting itself is of excellent quality. I measured stitches in several places on the quilt--she quilted consistently at 10-12 stitches per inch. It didn't hurt that the batting was extremely flat.<br />
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Much of the background quilting was in the 'hanging diamonds' pattern but others, especially on the borders, seemed to indicate the quilter had templates she traced around and then quilted. Often she used little hearts as filler motifs. Might that indicate the quilt was a wedding present? Being a special quilt might help explain its age and excellent condition since the quilt is about 150+ years old. A loved wedding quilt might have lived for years in a cedar chest and only be taken out for special occasions.<br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-85192413575647675612018-08-14T18:24:00.000-04:002018-08-14T18:34:53.259-04:00Quilt Re-Folding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ha! A mere three years between blog posts! This summer I've been going through my 20+ years' worth of quilts and sewing treasures. Everything from fabrics to UFO's to antique quilts. And this blog focuses on the vintage stuff so...my collection of quilts is, hmmm, eclectic. As I take quilts from black garbage bags where they lived between the old studio and the new shed, I re-fold and re-appreciate some of these vintage treasures.<br />
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From time to time, when I give a lecture, I have threatened to simply do it in mime and hold up quilts. Most people would be just as glad to see eye candy go past and might even stay awake through the evening too! This blog is rather like that--mostly images and a little text.<br />
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The following are the results of photographing two bags of quilts.<br />
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Now refolded, the quilts go up high in the new shed.<br />
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I use a special safety ladder to access them.<br />
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A vintage Baby Bunting quilt from Texas, maybe from the 1940s. The maker loved her bright colors.<br />
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Some of the lavenders have completely faded but dang, that orange will last forever!<br />
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One of the first antique quilts I bought. A wool and wool blends baby quilt from Pennsylvania with late 1800-early 1900s fabrics. Guess I'd call it a crazy quilt but it does begin with a square in the middle like a Log Cabin pattern. Maybe the baby was coming and she felt the need to 'get going' and finish the quilt!<br />
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This Spools quilt is from Texas and displays almost all plaids. Love this quilt. It has a sort of honesty about it. Bought in an online auction.<br />
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And this quilt is 'cat-approved' as well.<br />
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Another curved piecing quilt and this time I have no idea of its name. From an online auction.<br />
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The quiltmaker combined smooth curves with pointed pie wedges within the block--what an unusual pattern.<br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-13183525261272090872015-12-07T21:56:00.004-05:002015-12-08T07:29:45.159-05:00The One(s) That Got Away<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So this is a roll call of the ones that got away, with an emphasis on the fan shape. Please note that I neither recorded the dates or who the seller was--all I wanted was the graphic memory of the long-gone quilt. if any of these quilts belong to you, I am more than willing to insert attribution so contact me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A close-up from the Polka Dot Fan quilt as seen above. It's got to be Southern. The zippy color scheme plus the slightly wonky oversize dots makes me wonder if I could be so bold in my own quiltmaking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This old beauty is a wool quilt of Mennonite origin. Love this dramatic pieced pattern that falls diagonally down the quilt supported by large squares of plaids and plains. I even like the picture where it's slung casually over a wire fence!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Detail of the Killer Fan. Love the skinny red shapes that tie the fans together within the block.</span><br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-21994740339440391202015-12-02T11:30:00.000-05:002015-12-02T11:30:28.865-05:00Blog Rewind-December 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh dear--this blog has been sadly neglected! True confessions--it's way too easy to zap over to Facebook and post a few comments or pictures rather than plan and write a blog. Maybe I over-think this thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The challenge began December 1 and lasts through the last day of the year. I am obviously a day late in starting! Cheryl challenged us to blog daily but seeing as how I write three blogs, eventually I realized that once a week for each blog would be a more realistic goal. In other words, 12 new postings. That I can handle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Today on December 2, it's Quilt Flap's turn. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">For all lovers of antique textiles and particularly quilts, feast your eyes on this 50's House quilt. I bought it off ebay for cheap (I am cheap-) and am even more delighted when it came in the mail. The pattern is uber-simple and I love the way the roof piece seems to levitate above the main house parts. The quilt was likely made in the 1960s (looking at the prints) although the seller could tell me nothing about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love the orange sashing and the turquoise cornerstones! Not surprising to me that this quilt hails from Florida.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I'm going to graph this cool house and do something interesting with this pattern...</span></div>
Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-42575774014923615172015-03-10T15:15:00.003-04:002015-03-10T15:38:36.207-04:00Time for Another Quilt Flap!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole reason this blog got started years ago was to showcase antique quilts and particularly those quilts unearthed through Quilt Documentation Days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As everyday objects, made-at-home quilts are usually taken for granted and treated as insignificant </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">detritus once the maker had passed. But in recording its story, we are reinforcing to the quilt's owner that her quilt (and the person who made it) was and is important. Often a woman's quilts, besides her children, were her most enduring physical legacy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a little less than two weeks, there will be another Quilt Flap event. It's up the road a piece from where I live but if it's near you, you are welcome to come. This event is centered in Wayne County, North Carolina and the poster follows here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lynn Gorges is the main speaker at this event but I get to pet all the quilts! For more information, call the Wayne County Museum at (919) 734-5023.</span><br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-68241532353426351322015-01-15T11:04:00.001-05:002015-01-15T15:23:51.107-05:00Recommencing this blog--2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I can't believe that I let all of 2014 slip away without a single blog post to Quilt Flap. I do love antique textiles but hadn't been buying many--perhaps that's the reason. Sounds better than laziness! But then I go and look into the quilt storage room at the studio and realize that over the years I've gathered 100+ quilts and quilt tops so truly I have no excuse for not talking about them.<br />
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Every once in a great while, I stumble upon a vintage quilt that's too pretty and cheap to pass up. All I'll say about the price of this butterfly quilt from the 1930s or 40s is that I broke a $20 bill and got change.<br />
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The detail photo shows its pieced pattern--I think it was a mail order pattern from Chelsea Station. Not to be attempted by beginners! The quilt needs minor mending and to be washed but for right now it is folded, gently, and waits its turn.<br />
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A quite different piece is the all plaids quilt top I bought on ebay. It was a tour-de-force of blissful non-regard for grain--some of the plaids are pieced and others wonky! But the overall effect is really endearing. Unfortunately it's also very fragile and, shall we say, has eau-de-old-attic (a mixture of fuel oil, dust, and tobacco smoke). <br />
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Being all plaids and hand-sewn, the age of the quilt top is difficult to estimate. Second half 19th century will have to do.<br />
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Who would have thought to make a Storm at Sea type pattern out of plaids?<br />
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The final drag-n-brag is not a quilt although it displays both hand quilting stitches and trapunto.<br />
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This is a ladies' lingerie bag probably made in the 1930s in either France or Italy. The fragile silk cover is tearing but when peeled back, you can see both the second batting (lightweight wool-right picture, on left) side and the trapunto bits--colored yarn threaded through two layers. It's an enormous amount of work for such a small domestic object but really lovely.</div>
Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-39835229049168330912013-12-14T00:09:00.000-05:002013-12-14T00:16:50.103-05:00Just Plain Ole Quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maybe I was getting weary of uber-busy quilts or those masterpiece quilts with designs so elaborate they remind me of Victorian wallpaper. But the day I cruised Ebay and found these old girls, their simple patterns, forthright quilting, and yes even their wear-and-tear were appealing. I love this kind of country quilt. It seems so honest. True, it is a bed covering and at the same time, slam it up against a white wall in a New York loft gallery and watch people's jaws drop. Good as graphic art and with added benefits: if the heat's off, you can snatch that quilt from the wall and wrap right up in it.<br />
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The faded gold and black quilt is from Texas. It has lots wrong structurally with it-threads loose, a few little holes batting pokes through, and a ratty binding. The patchwork block is so simple that you almost miss the fact that once upon a time when this quilt was young, those white framing strips were indeed striped fabric.<br />
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And that pinky-tan? Dollars to donuts, that tan was once flaming scarlet. I think the quiltmaker's choice of black around the patchwork and bright gold sashing is really gutsy. More on instinct than fact, I place this quilt's date as something around 1910-1920. Maybe an antique but certainly vintage.<br />
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The second quilt is late 1930s or maybe the 1940s. The pattern is often called Bulls-Eye. The prints here are much more feedsack-ish and feminine. This cheerful quilt is from Arkansas and in good condition.<br />
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Thecloser you look at the quilt, the more interesting it is. You can see the quiltmaker boldly used striped fabric and consistently used white, with one exception, as the blocks' centers.<br />
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Others show defects in the print of the fabric itself and were likely the remnant that was on the sale table. But this quilter used it all!<br />
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There's even rayon in the quilt.<br />
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The stitching is a geometric 'elbow' of right-angled lines and the white stitches show well against the cornflower blue backing.<br />
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Both quilts are deceptively simple at first glance but upon a long view followed by close thoughtful examination, they can still teach us by example. For instance, the first quilt says "Use large bold patterns" and "Dare to combine black and gold in the same quilt." The second quilt reminds us to "Use what you've got-" and "Keep it neat" but "Quilt densely in a pattern not dictated by the seams of the quilt top." Lots of lessons here.</div>
Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-36727745612032390782013-03-20T10:58:00.001-04:002013-03-20T11:12:54.299-04:00Amish Inspirations-Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Way back in 1971 (that's more than forty years ago!) some Amish quilts were part of a groundbreaking exhibition of American antique quilts at the Whitney Museum in New York City. The urban art scene was abuzz with talk about the newly rediscovered craft of quilting and especially those Amish quilts. With their fields of plain color and subtle but always there hand stitching, the Amish quilts were hailed as high art from people who otherwise never gave a nod to needlework. Suddenly antique dealers and folk art collectors, auction houses, and museums were hot on the trail of Amish quilts. And the Amish people have had to deal with the publicity ever since.<br />
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Some of the publicity was good for the Amish people. When their antique quilts made it to auction, they often commanded high prices. And since quiltmaking was a way of life for many Amish women, when they purposefully made quilts to sell to 'the English' (any non-Amish person) their work was recognized and appreciated. Infatuation with Amish quilts has led to romanticizing the people and their quilts and there have been ups and downs in popularity. But quilt scholarship has also led to understanding that different Amish communities make different styles of quilts. Favorite patterns and colors can guide the astute scholar in recognizing a 20th century Lancaster, PA Amish quilt will likely be quite different than an 1880s Indiana Amish quilt. In other words, Amish quilts are not homogeneous and have their own quirks and qualities. The quilt here is a Lancaster PA Center Diamond quilt in muted colors made from wool, c.1930.<br />
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One again Amish quilts are inspiring quiltmakers and reappearing in exhibitions. The Modern Quilt Guild movement has led to a resurgence in the use of solid-color fabrics. What better body of work to inspire solid color quilts than Amish examples?<br />
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The use of solids immediately leads to the question of the quilting, those stitches that hold together a quilt's three layers. Traditional Amish quilting designs combine straight-line stitching with folk art motifs like baskets and flowers and their quilting stitches really shine when sewn in wide borders that frame the patchwork.<br />
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Some of my favorite Amish quilts are somewhat scrappy in appearance. These probably were never meant to be seen outside the Amish home but I feel lucky that the owners shared these images with me. The pale Shoofly quilt below is from Miflin County Pennsylvania.<br />
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A Rabbit's Foot pattern quilt from the Honeyville, Indiana area, c. 1940.</div>
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A hired man's quilt (long and narrow for a cot or twin-size bed) from Holmes County, Ohio. The pattern is called Railroad Crossing.<br />
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This Double Nine Patch in brilliant colors was never used and likely given as a wedding gift in the 1940s. From the Goshen, Indiana area.<br />
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I could look at Amish quilts all day long. There are so many variations and they have much to teach us about color use, both strong and subtle shades used in the same quilt, and above all, the stitching. If color is the soul of the Amish quilt, then quilting stitches are the heart.<br />
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Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-73885075151499515332012-08-11T18:55:00.001-04:002012-08-11T19:01:22.830-04:00Crazy Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Crazy quilting is a genre of quilting that comes and goes. Fortunately the style is really adaptable.If you know a bit about textile history, you might characterize crazies primarily as High Victorian needlework (1860-1900). You'd think dramatic colors of silk patches all embellished with fancy stitching. While Victorian crazies certainly are the best known example of the crazy quilt type, crazies occur in other times, made from materials other than silk, and may--or may not-showcase embroidery.<br />
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Americans in particular adapted the crazy method (random patches sewn over a backing) and recycled wools, blankets, old military uniforms, men's pants, and suiting samples into heavier quilts which were often tied rather than quilted. Call these 'country crazies.' Embroidery when done on wool crazy quilts could be quite bold and women found their inspiration everywhere. Even redwork transfers, available through mail order or in magazines, crossed over into crazy territory. Threads used varied from thin wool yarns to silk floss to perle cottons.<br />
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While textile historians speculate as to the exact root of crazy quilting, we can't discount the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement (called the Aesthetic Style in England) that produced all manner of quasi-oriental home furnishings, decor, and dress after the Civil War. Or maybe its genesis was the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 when many Americans saw Oriental ceramics for the first time. Don't tell me this platter from1878 is not in the crazy quilt style!<br />
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Cindy Brick's book on crazy quilts is a must-have if you want to study this slightly off-beat branch of quilting.</div>
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<a href="http://cindybrick.com/" style="text-align: left;">http://cindybrick.com/</a> Order it directly from her and she might even autograph it for you! </div>
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It's been yonks (translation: a v-e-r-y long time) since I purposefully added any quilts to my collection but last weekend I bought a quilt and it's a beaut. And then re-remembered I'd found another old quilt at a local flea market some months back that merited some pictures too. The flea market find is first and it's a mystery.<br />
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The quilt was hanging from the rafters of a pole barn at the flea market. Dusty, dirty, crumbling--all of the above. But it was still worth the $10 being asked and already I've had many times over the enjoyment of the piece. The pattern is a Mariner's Compass variation, in shredding pre-1860 chintzes, on a formerly white ground. The quilting is magnificent--about 14-16 stitches per inch. The quilt is huge--about 90" by 88". The large size is a tip-off from antebellum quilts and this one was made as a show piece by a show-off seamstress.<br />
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For some reason, 19th century North Carolina quiltmakers were fond of piecing, rather than using an applique technique, for large circular patterns. It must have been a bugger to draft. No short-cut applique here--the whole thing is pieced!<br />
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I carefully looked the quilt over and found that the maker had signed it! In one corner, in tiny stitches:<br />
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(first line) <i>Isabella Wadsworth </i>(second line) <i>LO___N </i>followed by <i>March 16 18_9.</i> It's a mystery with a few clues. What we know: Isabella must have been wealthy enough to afford nice fabrics. The quilt is large, as in made for a wedding gift. The stitches are superb--this was NOT Isabella's first quilt. She was proud enough to sign the quilt--a rather rare gesture unless the occasion was worth remembering (see <i>wedding quilt</i> above). Is it a North Carolina quilt? Or perhaps Virginia? I monkeyed with the picture to try and bring up the lettering with only limited success. My apologies.<br />
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The second quilt is definitely a North Carolina quilt and will be a repair/restore project. Bought in Smithfield, NC, the quilt was likely made around 1900. The pattern is some sort of eight-pointed star. The cheddar-teal green-marine blue-oxblood brown combo, plus its triple-strip sashing, is almost a trade-mark of late 19th-early 20th century North Carolina quilts. A few patterned shirtings could be 1890-1910. The quilt is incredibly white and bright. Evidently the quiltmaker finished the quilting (whew!), took it off the frame, and stored it away unbound. A mouse got into it and did some damage over the years and likely the oils in raw lumber helped make the darker stains.<br />
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I don't care--I love this quilt. It will be worth the time and/or money to get it restored. And yes, I will bind it and finally, a century later, finish the quilt.<br />
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<br /></div>Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-49418507615102445852012-02-15T17:51:00.003-05:002012-02-16T16:06:17.608-05:00Quilt Gift and Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes quilts come from out of the blue. Once I found one stuffed in a garbage bag on my porch with a cryptic note: "Give it a good home" and nothing else. Over the years the back storage room has morphed into a retirement home for strange and sometimes slightly tatty quilts. But sometimes the orphan quilts are lovely and I cannot understand why but their owners don't have room. On occasion, the exchange is almost a drive-by quilting, as in, the quilt is shoved out the door and the driver waves as she exits the scene. Sometimes guilt is the motivating factor when quilts come to live with me. "I never use this quilt and I feel bad about it," is one such rationalization.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah's 19th century Log Cabin quilt </td></tr>
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This autumn my friend Sarah wanted to share with me a quilt top she'd had in storage for a long time. She explained that she'd bought it at an antique shop in Easton, Maryland many years before and always intended to do something with it and wanted some inspiration and advice as to how to proceed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big smile, great glasses!</td></tr>
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I photographed the quilt against the fence in back of the studio on a sunny day. Sarah's quilt is a typical late-19th century variation on the Log Cabin pattern. When sewn with opposing light/dark strips, the pattern is called Courthouse Steps. A lot of the fragile fabrics are wool or wool/silk blends and when handled, you could feel and almost hear the fabrics wanting to tear. Other strips had been moth-nibbled. But the colors in the quilt are still amazingly bright for being 125 years old. I explained to her that she had a quilt top, in very tenuous condition, and that it likely couldn't be restored plus I wouldn't advise finishing it because the quilt's condition would continue to deteriorate no matter what she did. Since Sarah lives on a sailboat and must make good use of all her interior living space, she handed the quilt to me with a big smile. Isn't it great to have friends?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">C.1920s Log Cabin quilt from Texas and new wall hanging</td></tr>
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While on the Courthouse Steps kick, here are some pictures of two others in the collection. The older quilt above is an ebay find from the state of Texas. I don't think it was ever used. Funny how there's only a wee bit of flowered calico in one block. Makes me wonder if the quilt might not have been made for a man (all those plaids) and that little flowerdy part a feminine signature. The little quilt is a wall hanging I made in memory of my father-in-law Peter Magyar who always wore plaid shirts. The plaid fabrics are indeed cut from his shirts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up of Pete's Plaids</td></tr>
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<br /></div>Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-18775924612134466092011-07-13T18:09:00.000-04:002011-07-13T18:09:47.722-04:00Piles 'o Plaids and One Nice Shirt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJbLZYb5jz6gF5BSZVQUuQZ1BsX6tSbgqKRWhDGwX0e64h5jR3WtbOX6B7iQfSOC9xh4Nvz9cRgaX4_TOGe7LJQZ5XZEv29cfjHlHYV4axUi_j0UTe5v-gOa8Gy_FMKy8hVsIUnhORZCNu/s1600/plaid+shirt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJbLZYb5jz6gF5BSZVQUuQZ1BsX6tSbgqKRWhDGwX0e64h5jR3WtbOX6B7iQfSOC9xh4Nvz9cRgaX4_TOGe7LJQZ5XZEv29cfjHlHYV4axUi_j0UTe5v-gOa8Gy_FMKy8hVsIUnhORZCNu/s200/plaid+shirt.jpg" width="135" /></a></div>This September I get to go to the North Carolina mountains again and teach for a week at John C. Campbell Folk School.<br />
Go here if you want to learn more <a href="https://www.folkschool.org/index.php">https://www.folkschool.org/index.php</a> .<br />
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Two years ago I had a blast at JCC and they invited me back. This time the week I teach is called Scottish Heritage Week and the class is <i>In Praise of Plaids. </i>Now I'm deep into making not only the class sample but it's also the plaid quilt that's been running around in my head for years. The mission was to make a sampler quilt (uses different blocks) but somehow tie the whole thing together using plaids. Not surprisingly, the quilt's shaping up as very vintage in style.<br />
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Then I needed to go find every plaid I could lay hands on. Seeing as how my stash is 30 years old, I have a few possibilities. And the occasion was a grand excuse for purchasing a few more plaids as well.<br />
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The nice plaid shirt will die a noble death as it gets used in this quilt.Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-21618881682560642882011-03-22T20:05:00.000-04:002011-03-22T20:05:21.229-04:00Two More Quilts for the Collection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VYtLtCPklXq_E-fiDFSwmNPYHUvtUpZETIK29hraXuuPyJGXSxo3ySyrJvP3wHm7hbrhwkeKMLiV6Zv3ayk3MKZC54tBprMSS98DcdQwCpWYkHg9znX4rsy5syNAP03CBCDEw2JL0pi8/s1600/basket+quilt+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VYtLtCPklXq_E-fiDFSwmNPYHUvtUpZETIK29hraXuuPyJGXSxo3ySyrJvP3wHm7hbrhwkeKMLiV6Zv3ayk3MKZC54tBprMSS98DcdQwCpWYkHg9znX4rsy5syNAP03CBCDEw2JL0pi8/s200/basket+quilt+detail.jpg" width="195" /></a>Why do I collect old quilts? And what determines how much I can spend? These days, the latter concern is very real. I am spending a lot less on my hobby and much more time on my career. Never mind that they're both quilt-related. I've been a quilt collector since I've been a quilter (middle 1970s) and a quilt teacher the same length of time.<br />
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Recently I added two more quilts to my collection. One was on purpose: I watched the ebay auction and snagged it when no one was looking. It cost less than $45, my upper limit these days. It arrived a bit more ragged than I'd anticipated. But I still love the look--somewhat Art Deco crazy but with a folk-art feel since the basket motifs are boldly front-and-center in each block. <br />
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The second is a great treasure since it was a gift from my sister Lili. When she's not the doting grandmother to Rylee, or doing tax returns for her husband Stephen's accounting business, or managing apartment complexes, or doing the books for the local antique mall, Lil looks out for quilts that I might like. And she knows I have a thing for the color orange. She gave me the quilt as a gift back in November when her family came to the beach for a Thanksgiving visit. Beyer's <u>Album of Quilt Blocks & Border</u>s lists the name as <i>Iowa Star</i> and says it was published in the Ladies' Art Company catalog in 1928.<br />
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Lil said when the quilt came into the Georgetown, KY antique mall, she bought it since she thought I'd like it. She's right. Who could resist scrappy colorful stars against an orange sherbet background? From the prints, I think it was likely made in the 1940s. The quilting is in large overall fans or waves called Baptist Fans by some. I think the term stuck because the Baptists made it into print first!<br />
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Like my other blogs, Quilt Flap has been sadly ignored for months. But my thoughts today are wide-ranging. Looking through images of antique quilts is a pleasant way to waste an hour or two but it seems that a short message might be in order.<br />
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I apologize for not posting more regularly on Quilt Flap and, as soon as I get a better digital camera, I'll do so more often. The picture here was the last good one my camera took before it shut itself tighter than a clam. It's the view looking east on my street in Beaufort and taken early on the morning of January 1.<br />
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There are a few topics swirling around in my head but chief among them is that I'm lucky to be a quiltmaker. As one who gleefully combines plaids, dots, and striped fabric patches within the same composition, the lessons of the craft play out in a larger way in my life. Due to being a quilt teacher, I have gotten to travel and meet many different people who only have one thing in common: they love to make quilts. Occasionally I've taught in front of a class where English was not the common language. The solution to that challenge is to ask who is Dutch and who is Belgian in the class. Once hands are raised, I ask these folks to move around within the class. Since Dutch and Belgians are usually trilingual, between English-French-Dutch-German translations, we achieve a mutual understanding.<br />
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One of the particular reasons I love this craft is that it brings people together for a positive reason. We can forget our differences and together achieve something bigger and better (like a quilt) than any small work we might make by ourselves. I'm hoping that the post-Tucson wave of tolerance and civility that the news hounds are talking about right now won't soon fade away. I hope divisive and disparaging remarks and diatribes by media commentators will pause or even cease. That's probably a pipe dream. But I live in hope. Here's what's on the back bumper of my truck.<br />
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Called 'mosaic patchwork', English quiltmakers had been working with the hexagon since the mid-19th century. Perhaps inspired by beautiful marquetry boxes and tiles from the Middle East, English quilters cut hexagonal shapes from paper, basted a fragment of fabric over the hexagon and when enough patches were made, whip-stitched the patches together from the front of the work in rings of six patches around a center hexagon. The comparison to a flower--petals around a center- was inevitable.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Once when at a flea market, I spied what I thought was an average Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt in the pile and pulled the quilt out to examine. However this was far more than a common 1930s GFG--it was a late19th century English-sewn mosaic quilt and now it lives with me.<br />
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The last picture shows that the patches were whip-stitched together from the front plus the edges of the quilt were knife-edged. That means the layers folded in towards each and sewn together.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this quilt has heart. Not high-falutin' technique. tee-tiny stitches, or expensive fabrics. But heart and history. I can relate to the long-ago quiltmaker using every scrap as carefully as possible and imagine her showing off her skills as she carefully sewed the small compass blocks between the larger areas. This quilt is still a Texas Beauty.</span>Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-79363185108660530942010-06-09T13:03:00.005-04:002010-06-09T14:07:36.874-04:00Yellow and Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxd_fohbpOFfkody6ehyphenhyphenKbRH7tWf8xmELyY2jpk8qLRtN7wv0gBzF5buLPtr7TUTAn2iJXxPnGZuEnxW5Fdpx9g8QPSB_CbSVnrJH0VS_NFYNB5lSRNrnzg2JfjjYNR6UgUBsTbj-I5YS/s1600/Gail+Kessler+photo-all+gold+animals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxd_fohbpOFfkody6ehyphenhyphenKbRH7tWf8xmELyY2jpk8qLRtN7wv0gBzF5buLPtr7TUTAn2iJXxPnGZuEnxW5Fdpx9g8QPSB_CbSVnrJH0VS_NFYNB5lSRNrnzg2JfjjYNR6UgUBsTbj-I5YS/s320/Gail+Kessler+photo-all+gold+animals.jpg" /></a></div><br />
As a brunette with a slightly sallow complexion, all my life I've been told that yellow is not a color I should wear. Perhaps that's why as a quiltmaker, I am so very attracted to the sunny side of the color wheel and often use colors like yellow, gold, and orange in my quilts.<br />
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There are marvelous precedents in nature sporting shades of orange and yellow, such as the trio of buddies here. Rosie the retriever is in the middle and we'll call the other two Purr and Peck. They are the pets of Gail Kessler, designer extraordinaire for Andover Fabrics.<br />
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Here's Gail's website link where you can see more of her work: <a href="http://www.ladyfingerssewing.com/" target="_blank">www.ladyfingerssewing.com </a><br />
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When collecting antique quilts, I cannot resist orange, bright gold, or brilliant yellow--I am drawn to them like a bee to honey. This unusual folky Compass quilt was found in Southport NC but was made in the Apex area, c.1900. Then there's a 1960s Baby Bunting quilt from Georgia. It's a hot shade of orange and the workmanship is the pits but I love it.<br />
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Or again this c.1920's take on the Maple Leaf pattern set with bright cheddar.<br />
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I can't resist.Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-65022690314129221612010-03-23T18:32:00.002-04:002010-03-23T18:40:18.401-04:00Scrap quilt, scrap cat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67t56RXNQKqRX8bj7oI_clP9WqWYEBkhZiA4kcDprHL8YiPpNOls0iqBtWK0hjziBRpi7J467riuoPcya1fHHLWZ6TubFoWh9V2XcPcQDHOxXARNVcvMkDXgyG4X9D5KhpvqCmpioBUov/s1600-h/Gipsy+on+antique+quilt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67t56RXNQKqRX8bj7oI_clP9WqWYEBkhZiA4kcDprHL8YiPpNOls0iqBtWK0hjziBRpi7J467riuoPcya1fHHLWZ6TubFoWh9V2XcPcQDHOxXARNVcvMkDXgyG4X9D5KhpvqCmpioBUov/s320/Gipsy+on+antique+quilt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
The emphasis in this blog has always been on antique quilts but sometimes parts of one's life intersect in odd ways. Recently I bought an old scrap quilt in an online auction and won it--way cheap as I won't spend much. When the quilt arrived it had that familiar tang (eau de dust) so I threw it in the dryer after misting heavily with some lavender water. When the quilt came out of the dryer, both Gipsy and Earl Grey, our 10-month old kittens, ran to inspect it. Earl was soon distracted (it was almost dinnertime-) but Gipsy persisted in her examination. I think Gipsy especially liked the quilt because its muted colors mimicked her own fur. She sat on it all day.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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I've wondered if the propensity to arrange tiny pieces of fabric in different patterns might not be some sort of genetic marker. Some natural tendency passed down through generations whereby those afflicted try to make sense of the world by controlling, albeit in a minor manner, the creative chaos. Highfalutin' phrases for this simple question: is quilting genetic?<br />
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The other is, at first glance, a totally white quilt. Odd, since there are appliqued blocks which if viewed in a strong light, show as a typical Rose of Sharon quilt. And that's what strong dry-cleaning fluid will do to old quilts! Mom told me that quilt was made either for or by her mother. But that's it--the extent of the family patchwork legacy--two very faded quilts.<br />
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Some lucky people come by their quilting talent in their family and you can trace their heritage. Joe Cunningham out in San Francisco is one such gifted quilter. His website is <a href="http://www.joethequilter.com%20/">www.joethequilter.com </a>. Joe's own work ranges from the traditional to the contemporary and recently he sold his handmade quilt Bend in the River to the deYoung Museum. That's why he's grinning in the photograph!<br />
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There's an exhibition at the AQS Quilt Museum in Paducah KY that also displays Joe's work plus quilts made by his mother and grandmother. These are wonderful and I am envious that Joe can truthfully say he comes by his quilting genes naturally.The Dresden Plate quilt is by his grandmother Minnie Rose.<br />
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Joe's mom Janice made this indestructible, bright-as-the-day-it-was-made polyester double-knit beauty.<br />
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Thank you to Joe for letting me write about him and his family quilts. So, go rifle through the quilts in that old trunk and see what your own quilting DNA might be!Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-23271597332765993992010-02-07T18:13:00.000-05:002010-02-07T18:13:19.672-05:00Quilt Appreciation Days on Harkers Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbJzYysFgdnWlIfXuCxgE5ncCfdfETp5QAb0591vQDTXCzs_ioesFJhEyiHRTeavhSYQLtc6y2Pd3pbOxmPeYFc0z5p0SDmRkHYDET4JJtkX6D4c06PCo2vcRmLd4h6k3UyQSeYH5Rs_B/s1600-h/Core+Sound+Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbJzYysFgdnWlIfXuCxgE5ncCfdfETp5QAb0591vQDTXCzs_ioesFJhEyiHRTeavhSYQLtc6y2Pd3pbOxmPeYFc0z5p0SDmRkHYDET4JJtkX6D4c06PCo2vcRmLd4h6k3UyQSeYH5Rs_B/s320/Core+Sound+Museum.jpg" /></a></div>This last Friday and Saturday in the spacious barn-like wing of the Core Sound Waterfowl & Heritage Museum on Harkers Island, North Carolina, the atmosphere was somewhere between a bustling rug bazaar and a surprise birthday party. Before 10 AM, people started parading in bearing stacks of old quilts or wheeling in suitcases of their treasures. They plopped down in front of the registration table and the stories started reeling out. "This quilt was pieced by my great granddad's sister and she had seven children..." The registrants did yeoman duty as they carefully listened and noted all the family information about the quilts and gave each piece a number. This went on for two whole days.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZT5FtwztDU6XaEsKqx4nCQEP0yEhLqj1-XouQAmpzGu5L11NnFZ7FMRgN1pyhxzxuTTGrfjtylPDPhpObA_KmEuMKIbqPIRTIb7NlEi2fM7YK_9P9425mEayXvS-u3WuBv7ewEhdri1Y/s1600-h/100_0812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZT5FtwztDU6XaEsKqx4nCQEP0yEhLqj1-XouQAmpzGu5L11NnFZ7FMRgN1pyhxzxuTTGrfjtylPDPhpObA_KmEuMKIbqPIRTIb7NlEi2fM7YK_9P9425mEayXvS-u3WuBv7ewEhdri1Y/s320/100_0812.JPG" /></a></div>Most of the quilts we saw were pieced quilts with only a rare Dresden Plate, applique, or crazy quilt. Many were string-pieced or a Log Cabin variation, a favorite pattern in these parts. One lovely faded partially patchwork, partially crazy-pieced quilt had all the bells and whistles: use of common dress goods and home-spuns, hand pieced and quilted, a creative combination of patterned blocks and scrap techniques, and marked in a Core Banks Cross, an allover X-type quilting style seemingly indigenous to Downeast North Carolina.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ixJXW-8E6KL8Jv2NRB41pwj1A8nTrHG1e7PTUitH_kly-cUuVihxOzCQQ5U0v7Ku4v1-_mE_8tXc4PbJa7cGALFamM43qq1DPXezBDiYUe3-l5DHYsMb1nP2_qqzxw2jhDQ8Tk-tbR-F/s1600-h/Core+banks+Cross+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ixJXW-8E6KL8Jv2NRB41pwj1A8nTrHG1e7PTUitH_kly-cUuVihxOzCQQ5U0v7Ku4v1-_mE_8tXc4PbJa7cGALFamM43qq1DPXezBDiYUe3-l5DHYsMb1nP2_qqzxw2jhDQ8Tk-tbR-F/s200/Core+banks+Cross+cropped.jpg" width="177" /></a></div>Can you see the X? The design was marked with a taut chalked string plucked at diagonal corners when the top was first put into the frame and then each quadrant of the X got parallel diagonal lines marked with the aid of a piece of lath. Ladies told me it didn't matter what pattern your quilt was-Flower Garden, Nine Patch, Log Cabin. If the quilting groups at Stacy or Atlantic quilted your quilt, you got the Core Banks Cross!<br />
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I hope to have many more pictures from Quilt Appreciation Days to share. But today the plan is to lay back, watch the Super Bowl, and enjoy the lasagna Rod has in the oven.Pepper Coryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840312463631790831noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6028895834192045504.post-73190124409176955062010-01-18T16:12:00.003-05:002010-01-18T16:24:27.437-05:00Qad! Qad! Local antique quilt alert!<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5gs6yGrEEonu1mcI8Pj4j10SfVL0rwunYpbpp6T2nDs7lk3f3k6KL2vFKH0Qs7cazX8sH8VHkUDELOzYmnUshpNTW-GZoBjn25aV3pvl1aEHPRO4HCwMpvi66an6n0QHkNpwkyG3hQjNT/s1600-h/QAD2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5gs6yGrEEonu1mcI8Pj4j10SfVL0rwunYpbpp6T2nDs7lk3f3k6KL2vFKH0Qs7cazX8sH8VHkUDELOzYmnUshpNTW-GZoBjn25aV3pvl1aEHPRO4HCwMpvi66an6n0QHkNpwkyG3hQjNT/s320/QAD2.jpg" /></a><br />
</div>What does QAD stand for? Around here, that's short for <b>Q</b>uilt <b>A</b>ppreciation <b>D</b>ays. Put February 5 and 6 on your calendar and come out next month to the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island, North Carolina. See QAD in action for yourself. For those of you not familiar with the coastline of North Carolina, Harkers Island is tucked into a crook of the Downeast peninsula.<br />
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Until electricity was strung to Harkers Island in 1939 and then a bridge built in 1941, the island was only reachable by boat. But now the once-remote island hosts thousands of visitors every year. The visitors center for the Cape Lookout Seashore stands at the eastern tip of the island and is right next door to the Museum where we'll hold Quilt Appreciation Days the first Friday and Saturday in February.<br />
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</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DESGTyu7vl_iztMjse6VkvpnuWgEaByXIJLqoJD7e45yhN4drjuUdLjldEhndw7qjoEMj2MJZ0k8SmBVBTMby_aVb1x3CQyQHZbo_y1PLzFkF1BgW8IdSy0sUKLDE-2tT0esIOhGD96_/s1600-h/lynn+at+work.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-DESGTyu7vl_iztMjse6VkvpnuWgEaByXIJLqoJD7e45yhN4drjuUdLjldEhndw7qjoEMj2MJZ0k8SmBVBTMby_aVb1x3CQyQHZbo_y1PLzFkF1BgW8IdSy0sUKLDE-2tT0esIOhGD96_/s320/lynn+at+work.jpg" /></a>We're hoping that folks from many local communities will look in their closets and drag boxes out from under the bed and unearth their old quilts and bring them in. Think of it as a giant 'show-n-tell' session. If there are stories about the quilts and their makers, so much the better! Oral historians will be on hand to record the tales. There's Lynn Gorges, textile historian and preservationist from New Bern, NC, and then there's myself (general old quilt enthusiast) who will be on hand to examine the quilts. We'll measure each quilt, check their condition, give general advice on preserving and cleaning, and even look up the pattern name if you don't know it. Here's what we WON'T do: appraise the quilt for a dollar amount. This event is not about the money! We're doing this because we love antique quilts and want to help other people--the people who own the quilts--appreciate the work and love that went into these unique textile documents and to better take care of them.<br />
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</div>A couple of years ago we held the first-ever Quilt Appreciation Day. Even in the then-unheated wing of the Museum, we saw a steady stream of people bearing armloads of quilts over the two days. We think we saw over 120 quilts! I don't recall the exact figure--my memory's kind of blurry after the first hundred!And now we'll be in the heated large hall, toasty and warm, and even have an exhibit of antique quilts around the walls.<br />
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</div>If you're interested in old quilts and would like to help at this event, we'd love to see you. Please come on Friday January 29 to the Museum--there's going to be training sessions for recorders, greeters, photographer's assistants, and quilt scribes. Nope, no pay of any kind! Well, maybe lunch!<br />
Just friendship and the opportunity to pet quilts and share our common passion for the craft. Call the Museum at 252-728-1500 for more information and ask for Pam or Joanie. <br />
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