#vintage quilting

[knittingmagscans]

Needlecraft for Today March/April 1982

Pages 20 – 37

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[vintagehomecollection]

A luxurious and restful new bathroom, with an antique quilt on the wall, leads off the bedroom.

The Englishwoman’s Bedroom, 1985

[meandtheveggies]

duality of cat

[rosymothquilts]

Misty Morning in Autumn Progress Pictures

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꧁★꧂

[witchrealms]

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[vintage-sweden]

Signe Johansson and Gerda Jacobsson, Sweden. They're quilting.

[ahedderick]

Old times

When I was a small child, one of my parents' neighbors, Aunt Lou, used to babysit me in her home sometimes. She had a granddaughter my age. Also, her mother and mother-in-law lived in their house, tucked into one bed in a corner bedroom like the grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I called her mother "Grandma Morgan." She would have been born in the late 1800s, and was a quilter.

When Aunt Lou was downsizing and moving house many years later, she gave me an unfinished fragment of a quilt that Grandma Morgan had never finished. It has tiny, I mean tiny hexagons. I folded it in bewilderment and stored it. Couldn't bring myself to throw it away, didn't know what to use it for, and it would have been a Herculean task to finish it.

While I was cleaning out my father's house, I had an idea to take old sewing notions, of which I have many, and make an art piece using those with a background of Grandma Morgan's quilt.

I have a suitable wooden panel. I have the notions. Can I find that quilt fragment????? I cannot. I thought I knew right where it was, but quite a bit of searching later I cannot find it. Sooooo, that project will have to wait. When I find it - I WILL find it - will I be able to find the other pieces I need? Who knows.

But do I have a TINY, fully functional child's sewing machine? NO, I have TWO of the damned things. Tried to sell them. Got lots of scammers and no actual collectors.

[similarfruit]

Ships Quilt, c. 1937

Made by Marie Alsop, West Virginia

The Art Institute of Chicago

[knittingmagscans]

Needlecraft for Today Sept/Oct 1981

Pages 18 – 35

[oldfarmhouse]

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ⛰️ 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬.

//𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐭

[vintagehomecollection]

Sycamore strips... proliferate in the Master Bedroom, where they provide an interesting textural contrast to the rest of the decor. A pair of Matisse drawings complement one by Leger, at right.

Contemporary Apartments (The Worlds of Architectural Digest), 1982

[rumade]

I'm going to cut up this dress today 🥲

Well probably, anyway, unless I chicken out. I've had this dress since about 2008 (age 18) and stopped wearing it around 2015 when the zip broke. It was in a pile to be fixed but I never got around to it, and it has some clay staining on it too

This dress... man I loved this dress. I had to hard-core persuade myself to buy it at the grand price of £42 (about £68 in todays money, yikes), but convinced myself that if I wore it 42 times, well then that would be just £1 a wear. And I wore it so much, it fit so well and felt nice on my skin, made me feel put together and pretty, and was breathable because it was cotton. It was handmade by someone in Reading and was in a Traid Remade charity shop. The person who made it probably has no clue how much joy their little canary dress brought me.

I wore it to art galleries (see me sat upon Ai Weiwei's Tate Modern sunflower seeds below), dates with both boys and girls, trips to the park, my mum's Open University graduation, and many other places. Countless units of alcohol were consumed in this dress, and I'm sure a fair few lovers unzipped it too.

Anyway, goodbye dress! I'm going to cut you up and use some of you as backing for my family heart scrap quilt, and then keep the rest for another sentimental quilt I will make one day with lots of bits of important clothes in it. I loved you so much. Thank you for being part of my transition from teenager to adulthood 🙏 mwah mwah mwah 💋💋💋

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Fruit Salad by Fig Tree & Company in Misc. Fabrics