White on White Candlewick Spread

I found this spread in Ohio about a year ago.  Ripped and dirty, with very worn fringe, I knew I had to rescue. In one of the photos you can see where I hand stitched and repaired the spread.  I also show the back of the spread where you get a very good look at the embroidery.  Very thick and heavy thread used to make the knots and the tufted work. The ground fabric is cotton, very heavy and strudy.  I have no idea of the date for something like this.  The fringe around 3 sides was worn and missing in most areas.  It easily broke when pulled just a little.  I chose to remove all the fringe, but I have kept an example.

Laurene Sinema Red Work Farm Pattern

I was very fortunate, several years ago, to acquire the original redwork needlework that inspired Laurene Sinema Pattern,  Red Work Farm. 

Original Needlework

Redwork

Two very cute redwork pieces. Child bid with matching napkin or burp cloth.  Small four block with initials. 

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.

Antique Crib Quilt

Pussy Willow Crib Quilt

c. 1940

 NEEDLECRAFT CREATIONS

NO. 7179

Red and Green Quilt

Recently I had the chance to do some antique quilt shopping in Massachusetts. I did not want to purchase this quilt and it is all my husband’s fault that it now resides in Arizona.  I had found a couple of quilts I wanted and was purchasing them, when DH came back holding this quilt, which we had looked at, and I had rejected.  I saw it only as an unfinished project, which I have way more than I will ever finish in two life times. But here he comes up the aisle with this quilt and insist that we buy it.  He liked the red and green and the price.  As a quilt maker, as well as an antique quilt collector, I knew it would be a real challenge to put a binding on the quilt, and besides it had this kind of weird extra piece.  I wasn’t real sure what the maker had intended. Now that I have had a chance to look at the quilt, I am still not real happy that we bought the quilt. But we did figure out what the extra piece was for.

Actually it was, at one time, a part of the original design of the quilt. But someone, at sometime, cut it off the quilt. The piece fits perfectly. It is very hard to date a quilt with solid colors, but the original construction dates it earlier than I would have thought.  Second quarter of the 19^th century, I think. It looks like it would fit a twin bed perfectly with just the right drop around four posters. What do you think?

 15.5 inch x 15.5 inch block without any sashing. A very pretty, well done design, all hand pieced.

I could not find this in BB Encyclopedia, I admit I don't know how to use it with much success.  

My eye/brain has a hard time recognizing a pattern from a black and white drawing.

 Very thin cotton batting.

 Back of quilt, can you see the colored thread? Very nice 8 stitches to the inch quilting.

See the holes on the edge of the backing? Looks like it was quilted in a frame.

Would you try to put a binding on the quilt or leave as is? What would I do with the extra piece?  

It cannot be reattached.

Small Antique Crib Quilts

A very sweet 32.5 inch x 36 inch crib quilt found in Maine this year.  The blocks are about 4.75 inches and the fabulous border is 2 inches.  I am thinking c. 1870, what do you think?