Antique Carousel Crib Quilt

Baby's Day Quilt

Baby's Day Quilt

12 incidents in day of Baby's Life

Advertised pattern or the 

blocks already stamped and ready to embroidery

1938

Angel Child Antique Crib Quilt

Angel Child Kit Quilt

Progress Quilt Kit

No. 1367

c. 1940

Frederick Herrschner Company

Vintage Applique Crib Quilt

Vogart 

Transfer Pattern #154

c. 1940

Paragon Crib Quilt

Paragon Crib Kit 

No. 1080

c. 1950

McCall's Crib Quilt

McCall's Pattern

Transfer No. 1101

25 cents

Pattern dated 1943

Six Little Critters with Saddlebags of Flowers

Rainbow Quilt Blocks

I remember the first time I saw a quilt with Rainbow Quilt Blocks.  It was at the Quilted Apple in Phoenix Arizona.  One of Laurene Sinema's students showed a quilt she had made in 1936 at the age of 16.  Laurene went on to do a pattern booklet from the blocks in this quilt. It is called Fantastic Florals by Laurene Sinema. I fell in love and have been a big fan since then.  I learned a man named William Pinch from Cleveland, Ohio designed and marketed over 1000 patterns by mail order.  He advertised in magazines.  You could purchase a block kit, stamped with the pattern and fabric for the applique.  They came in two sized 9 inch and 18 inch.  No paper pattern was available. For lots more information on William Pinch read Sharon Pinka's  research paper published in Uncoverings 2009, Volume 30 of the American Quilt Study Group.  Available to read at the Quilt Index.

This year I have documented the Rainbow Quilts in my collection and entered them into the Quilt Index.  Here are a few of my favorites and a link to all of my Rainbow Quilts on the Quilt Index.

Maypole Crib Quilt

Maypole Crib Quilt

Frederick Herrschner Company Catalogue

c. 1940

Heavenly Teddies Crib Quilt

Lee Wards

No. 8012 

c. 1960

40 x 60

Three Bears floating down from 

heaven under umbrellas

Bucilla Applique Quilt Kit

Bucilla Quilt
"Puff-Quilted Wreath"
Design No. 1731

c. 1940

A rare find, pristine quilt kit in unused condition. This even has the matching embroidery floss. I have never seen this as a finished quilt. Pattern instructions say, the patches are to be puff-quilted with padding, giving an unusual embossed or raised effect.

Antique Crib Quilt

Merry-Go-Round

Progress Kit Quilt

No. 1512

c. 1940

40" x 58"

Antique Crib Quilt

Babes in the Woods

Bucilla Kit Quilt

No. 2148

Antique Crib Quilt

Gay Circus Quilt

Simplicity Transfer Pattern

7279

15 cents

Antique Crib Quilt

Elephant Ride

Home Needlecraft Creation

c. 1940

40" x 60"

Antique Crib Quilt

 Dancing Elephants

Home Needlecraft Creation

C. 1950

40" x 60"

Antique Crib Quilt

THREE LITTLE PIGS

Progress Kit Quilt

No. 1358

c. 1950

(top only)

Antique Crib Quilt

TEDDY BEAR QUILT

McCall's Needlework

Winter 1943

No. 27009

Includes stamped white and colored material for quilt top, stamped colored material for the appliques.  Lining and wadding not included.

Order at your McCall Pattern Department for

 $2.25

Antique Crib Quilt

BABY ANIMAL QUILT

Aunt Martha's

No. 3047

(Hot Iron Transfer)

c. 1950

Antique Crib Quilt

APPLIQUE ANIMAL CRIB QUILT

Bucilla

Kit No. 2863

(no name)

30" x 45"

Kit included everything except the sheet wadding used for the padding and the white material for the quilt backing.  Recommend dry cleaning as washing is apt to make the padding lumpy.

Antique Crib Quilt

LITTLE RED HEN

Signed and dated

1938

Ellen Esther Loveland

(maker or owner)

T. Buettner & Co.

1937 catalog #56

#5370

42" x 58"

The book In the Nursery (2010)

 by Jennifer Sampou 

has a pattern for this quilt.