Quelle belle chine du samedi! Ces petits morceaux d'anciens Piqués Provençaux attisent mon inspiration... Aujourd'hui ils vous sont présentés "brut" juste pour le plaisir de faire de belles photos ... çi Dessous: Magnifiques broderies Chinoises Anciennes. J'aime leur association avec les Piqués... Cette Besace quitte l'atelier, j'en profite pour la prendre une dernière fois en photo.. Une des dernières séries de petits coussins... Pour les tarifs , me [email protected] Quelle richesse de motifs... Médaillon Poétique, tarif me consulter içi:[email protected] Merveille de papier Peint ancien réalisé au pochoir de gouache, J'en ferai bientôt un décor.. J'en profite pour vous dire que, pour mon plus grand plaisir, Le Souffle d'Inécha est dans le dernier Maisons à Vivre Campagne Hors série paru le 21 juin Broc' & Récup'
While shopping at the antique mall, one of the things I’ve been noticing re-surge more and more are Victorian Crazy Quilts and all of their lovely styles and forms. Since I cannot begin to to…
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This probably has another name as many quilt patterns do. It's wonderful how they survive through the centuries! To download the chain of diamonds pattern to yo
Happy Friday! Here's a little quilt I finished yesterday for a swap I was asked to be in. Thanks Christine. I enjoy making these little quilts. It is a surprise as to who it is going to, so I can show it here. I love this ombre backing. Here's my inspiration quilt. I received dresses for Colombia this week!! Thank you Kathi M, Jan H., and Barb S. I am thrilled to see my dress stack growing!! I must pass on this sale news. I love kai scissors and will never use another brand of rotary cutter. They are having a sale! You can get to their website HERE My Instagram for the week. If you want to see how I've been spending my spare time (haha- not as much as I'd like) check out my other blog HERE. I've been building a lot of strength and feeling really good!
Antique quilts are treasures of the past that need special care. Follow these tips to properly clean, remove stains from, and care for your quilt.
This Dutch Rose pattern was published in 1933 by the Lansing State Journal and the text of of this article read: "Here's an old favorite, the Dutch Rose, or it is sometimes called the Dutch Windmill. In the early days it was known as "Hearts and Gizzards." It has been a fascinating pattern and lends itself to rather vivid colorings. The size is 18 inches. It can be made up in white and your favorite solid color or a combination of prints and solid colors combined with white. This quaint quilt has maintained its popularity throughout generations of needleworkers and you will find it just as popular today as it was in the days of our Colonial forefathers."Are you familiar with this pattern? Have you heard it called any of these names: the Dutch Rose, the Dutch Windmill, or Hearts and Gizzards?
Browsing through Pinterest this morning I found this image - There was no information attached to the pin, but then I found it again on a group I follow on Facebook this time with details. It is to be in an exhibition on 14th April entitled "Common Threads: Selections from the Textile Collections of the Goschenhoppen Historians, the Mennonite Heritage Center, and the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center." Both the Mennonites and the Schwenkfelder will be holding concurrent exhibits featuring quilts, needlework, clothing, personal accessories and household textiles dating from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries -- all Pennsylvania German in origin. The Schwenkfelder is located in Pennsburg PA www.schwenkfelder.com and the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, PA www.mhep.org. I would love an opportunity to view this coverlet, it is unquilted so not a quilt. As soon as I saw it I thought of the Darowen coverlet which I blogged about a while ago, which I think is one of the most amazing pieces of textile folk art. At first glance they both seem to have a rather wild format but on closer inspection you can see that this isn't so and that some thought has been given to the placement of the pieces. The first coverlet is thought to have been made in south eastern Pennsylvania and is owned by the Goschenhoppen Historians in Green Lane, Montgomery County, PA. I wonder who made it and if, like the Darowen coverlet, it was made by more than one person, three sisters, the daughters of the Vicar of Darowen? This type of textile is quite rare, but when one comes up I find them uttering intriguing. They look as if everything has been thrown into the mix and they are interesting to study on many levels. I have had the pleasure of examining the Welsh one closely and it had quite a profound affect on me. I delved into it's history and visited the place where it was made. I would love to see the Pennsylvanian one up close but have to be content with just this image!
This vintage quilt really needs help! So now that you’ve collected your vintage pieces it’s time to get them clean and ready to use. My advice is to never use a piece in a project that has not been…
Emily Bode is turning rare and forgotten textiles into workwear you’ll want to start collecting.
We'd like to introduce the latest pattern in our Classic & Vintage series, the Ladies Aid Quilt! In our Classic & Vintage series, we focus on
Joseph's Coat is a fairly challenging pattern, and it's also one of my all-time favorite scrap quilts. There is no date on this pattern, and I can't read the date on the original envelope. Alice Brooks was another name used by Needlecraft Service, Inc., the same company that published Laura Wheeler
Crazy quilts are my favorite quilts of all. I love them because you can use up all your favorite fabric scraps and you don’t need much of any one single fabric, as there usually are not alot…
The popular perception of a Welsh Quilt is one that is graphic in style with simple shapes and usually made of plain or slightly patterned woollen fabrics - something like the quilts in the header of this blog. However, this is only part of the story as many Welsh quilts were also made of fabrics generally available throughout 19th century Britain. Something like this quilt which looks like a typical British medallion, not very well planned at that - I first saw it in a display of British quilts at the Tokyo Dome a few years ago and as I don't do large quilts I was attracted to it because of its size, which is that of a large crib quilt. The only reason I know it's Welsh is because it has a recorded provenance - it was made in Aberystwyth in the mid 19th century and belonged to a family who owned a draper's shop in the town. Here is another medallion made of printed fabric - This picture has been taken from a book so it is not the best quality, but if you want to zoom and and see more detail try the V&A Search the Collections website - -http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O128357/bed-cover/ This quilt was in this year's Quilt Exhibition when we had a chance to see it at last. However, even without the meagre provenance it has, there would have been no doubt that it was a Welsh quilt because of the wonderful Welsh quilting patterns that sing out its nationality.
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I have a finish to share with you all today: not the one I intended as I find I haven't taken any photos of that quilt, so that will be tomorrow's task. However here is another finished quilt from a few weeks ago - you can tell by the grey sky and leafless tree that I photographed it at the beginning of the month. I actually cannot remember when I pieced this small quilt, though I would guess it is at least 10 years ago. It was one of the first things I made with the new Daiwabo taupe fabrics which were then just becoming available in the UK. I like to think that my piecing would be more precise if I were to make the quilt again today, so please be kind if you spot any faults. I love flying geese, but I would always now make them oversized and trim with a Bloc_loc ruler to ensure perfect points. However if you squint at the quilt from a distance I guess it's not too bad... I still really like the fabrics (which is just as well as I still seem to have oodles of taupes left in my stash). There is something about the Japanese taupes, that almost but not quite monochrome quality, which actually makes you really look at the fabrics and see the subtle colours that were there all the time, but which you overlook at first. I had originally intended to handquilt this one - I would handquilt everything if I could but in practice I handquilt almost nothing - so the quilt has hung around for years, layered and tacked (basted) together. I kept moving it, intending to make a start but never quite getting round to it, and the quilt was therefore rather grubby in places. I had chosen a plain calico (muslin) backing to show off the hand quilting (my intention was that it would look a bit like a wholecloth quilt on the reverse) and when I re-layered with basting spray after removing the tacking, I stuck with the original plan. I am really pleased with the quilting, and it just shows what can be achieved with a walking foot and a bit of quilt wrangling. In case you are interested in having a go on your next flying geese quilt, I will describe how I went about it. I put in the structural quilting lines first, the verticals on either side of the geese strips, burying my thread 'tails' at the top and bottom. Next I stitched down the right hand side of one of the strips of geese in a zigzag, working from the point down the sloping side of the goose triangle, turned the quilt and then worked along the bottom of the triangle towards the mid point, when I turned and went down the slope of the next goose triangle. Continuing all the way down the strip, I decided not to risk turning the whole quilt and working up the strip in the opposite direction - I felt that would probably create puckers and the quilt would not hang properly. So I finished there and started again at the top of the strip, this time travelling down the left hand side oft the strip of geese and meeting my first line of stitching at the tip/midpoint each time to complete the outlining of the goose triangle. Once I had done all the strips of geese in this manner and buried all the thread ends, I finished by putting parallel vertical and horizontal lines in the sashing and borders, guided by the woven design of the fabric. I hope that is comprehensible - if I had any IT skills I could draw the line on to the photo and you would understand instantly, but I don't....sorry! It is not quite as awful a task as it might sound to machine quilt in this way as this is a fairly small quilt (54" x 65") and reasonably easy to turn. I feel it was worth the effort for the amazing texture on the reverse, which does remind me of a wholecloth quilt even if it isn't handquilted! I am ending this post with two photographs of the quilt taken today, the last day of March and almost a month since the first picture. A beautiful Spring day with the plum tree in blossom. Lots of gardening to do this weekend so quilting will have to take a back seat. I hope you have a wonderful weekend, however you choose to spend it. Linking to Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it up Friday.
The best part of my job is having a small part in some pretty amazing quilts! And this one is breathtaking…. Jean Rawson pieced this quilt as a gift for her daughter who was graduating with a…
You do know how much I love traditional quilts. I have been following Linda Collins quilt journey through the reports in Quiltmania and thro...
Le boutis, également appelé broderie au cordon serti ou piqûre de Marseille traditionnelle, est une technique textile qui consiste à remplir de bourre un dessin reporté et piqué sur deux épaisseurs d'étoffe. On donne avec cette technique du relief au tissu.
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From Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Alamac for October 29 I learned about folk artist and quilt maker, Harriet Powers. I had never heard of this woman or her quilts until today. I sa…
Here are some details from the 'Early to Bed' exhibition at the Welsh Quilt Centre. It closed on Saturday, so if you didn't get to visit, you've missed it. The exhibition catalogue is available by mail order, as are the catalogues from the previous exhibitions - worth having. The quilt shown above, from Llandeilo, which is shown in Janet Rae's book 'Quilts of the British Isles'. I didn't take a photo of the whole quilt, because it's in the book, so please cross refer with your copy to see the whole thing. I like the tiny pieces in the centre grading out to larger pieces towards the edge, and the completely busy appearance of all those prints. There are some very early fabrics in this quilt. This quilt, made from military cloth, includes early khaki uniform cloth. It has a more innovative, random style, similar in feeling to the coverlet made by James Williams of Wrexham (scroll down my blog link to see photos) but in an even more lively style. This patchwork top is a very playful and irregular take on a medallion arrangement. It seems like an early hint of some of the 'modern quilt' pieces being made today. The fabrics used to piece the squares are graded, with darker pieces at the bottom, almost an early colourwash. This patchwork is made from flannel shirtings, with the stripes going in every direction and very simple quilting. Tailors' sample quilt, showing fabric details. Detail of the tailors' quilt Glyn is looking at in my previous post, showing that bold red stitching. Another tailors' quilt, with very simple quilting but wonderful value contrasts, also shown in my previous post but with an extra detail photo below. Details from the quilts displayed in the central 'enclosure'. Quilts from the right hand wall. These have typical Welsh quilting designs, with spirals and fans etc. The Sennybridge quilt, a well known design partly thanks to being used as the poster quilt for Festival of Quilts a few years ago, is much more simply quilted. Unlike many Welsh quilts, the quilting design on this one seems to have been fitted into the patchwork design. Perhaps I could use any oddments of red and black check from Glyn's kilt to make something like this? There were some very interesting textured weaves in this block based quilt, beautifully accented with red flannel. I love the random strips and the plaids on point in this. The fancy stitching on this crazy quilt suggests much later abstract embroideries from the 1960s. Subtle touches of plaids in an otherwise dark palette. An early C19th patchwork in many brown fabrics - and in very good condition for its age, as brown/black prints are very prone to rot from the iron mordant in the dye. Aren't the blocks of colour beautiful in this? It was hung very high and this was the best photo I could manage. I am sure I have seen this quilt exhibited before, perhaps at Llanidloes. It might surprise quilters today that anyone would attempt to piece such an intricate design in thick wools, but the fabric is a big part of the charm here. We finished off our visit with a good look through the shop and bought the exhibition catalogue so we can browse the quilts all over again. I would have liked to stay much longer, but we could only have a very short visit because of our schedule - setting up World Textile Day on the other side of Bristol that afternoon. We were both glad we'd made the effort to drive that bit further to Lampeter on this trip, otherwise we wouldn't have had the chance to see the exhibition - 540 miles. Now I'm looking forward to next year's exhibition, which will feature wholecloth quilts. The Welsh Quilt Centre makes great reuse of an old building and getting there by car is relatively easy from south or mid Wales. Next time I want to explore the town as well.
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I probably have a dozen photos of quilts made in this pattern from the 1930s and '40s. It was quite popular despite its set-in Y seams. I never know where to file it because it's so miscellaneous. But it has a number in the BlockBase Miscellaneous category. BlockBase #4052 The earliest publication I've found was in the Rural New Yorker farm newspaper in 1933. They called it Bride's Bouquet or Nose Gay Quilt. The Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks company syndicated a pattern--maybe a year or two later. And in 1937 when the Kansas City Star was asking readers to send in their favorites Anna A. Threlkeld of Waynesville, Missouri sent The Nosegays. You could set it by rotating the blocks, which several quilters did. Pat Sloan found this pastel delight on eBay. Here's a variation. Cockcomb attributed to H. H. VerMehren's mail order business in the 1930s. An 8" finished pattern from BlockBase See Tim Quilts for a post. I am not surprised he has a top in the pattern. It's just the kind of thing he likes. https://timquilts.com/tag/brides-bouquet-quilt-block/
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dried and pressed sea-weed picture from the Channel Islands A FEW SAMPLES FROM MY COLLECTION OF LADIES AMUSEMENTS Yes I am back on the job and please forgive the gap, which was not a holiday but was caused by three big events in my personal life - the decisioj, for purely health reasons to leave my lovely old house where I planned to stay for a few more years, the decisiion to put it on the market which has involved a massive sort out of belongings and old stock, and thirdly the delight of going back to bee-keeping with two hives on the terrace here which are just a big waste of time, but I do love my bees! DRIED FERN, DRIED FLOWER and SEA WEED PICTURES, SCISSOR-WORK, CUT-OUT PICTURES( papier coupe ), PAPER SCULPTURE of FLOWERS, a la Mrs.Delaney, SILHOUETTES,PIN PRICK WORK, often religious figures, FELT PICTURES OF ANIMALS, PLANTS, BASKETS OF STRAWBERRIES, especially sought after and so charming! SILHOUETTES, human HAIR mormentoes made up in braids and plaits , Shell covered boxes and ornaments, The materials and skills involved shows how Victorian ladies used their hands to create pictures of delight. The following Blogs will show just some of the samples of Ladies amusements, (Regency and Victorian craft work on pictures), which I have bought, sold and collected in a very informal way for my own amusement, and also to decorate the bare walls of each house I have renovated. Some are quite rare, others can still be found occasionally at the big general fairs, un-recognised by the sellers and very often in very poor frames which can easily be replaced and make a great difference to the charm of these rather delicate subjects. Birds and flowers predominate of course. Dried flowers pressed between sheets of blotting paper are fairly common in Victorian scrap books, but often very faded and incomplete without foliage. There are some exceptional groups of ferns which are often quite large and very stylish and decorative, and properly framed, these are very attractive in groups on large empty walls! Sea-weed, see above picture, dried and placed in a little woven basket, in semi-profile on a parchment backing, can be very sweet and often have a little poem below " Call us not weeds, but flowers of the sea are we " and are best seen in little boxed frames, well arranged and not flattened out. Many natural history subjects, like flowers, insects, butterflies, birds' eggs, etc., can be much cheaper to buy in later print form rather than in the original natural history volumes which are now rare to find as more and more are broken up to get the max. return on scarce designs - ' pity too' as the Welsh would say! More about these sort of pictures will follow with a few examples that I have owned or seen on my travels. There is not a great deal of literature about Ladies Amusements as they were considered amateur and trivial and there was no proper market place for them as they were made at home and kept in the family, together with samplers and other hand-made decorations. They were just 'family things'.
Quilts have great visual appeal, due in part to the sense of rhythm in the pattern repeat. The repeat of a block design sets up a...
I treasure this photograph. It was a gift--a wonderful black and white picture, c.1950, of a lady hand quilting. On the back in wavering pencil is written "Durham quilter." Durham is both a city and a county in northeast England and famous for its beautiful quilts. For more information, check out the book, North Country Quilts-Legend and Living Tradition, by British scholar Dorothy Osler. And when you go to Durham, don't miss the Beamish Museum's extensive collection of quilts- http://www.beamish.org.uk/about-collection.html . There are a number of interesting details that hand quilters can learn from this vintage photo. Notice that she's working on a wholecloth quilt, a classic type of quilt using solid color fabrics. The fabric might well be a cotton sateen since its surface seems to be very smooth. The quilter must also be sitting in a chair that's much lower than the quilt's surface since the edge of the quilt is above her bust. This is probably because the quilt frame used here, although we can't see it, is a traditional table-top English frame, a half-size type of frame, derived from an embroidery frame, that sat on top of an already existing table. Unlike the American large-size quilting frame made of lumber, the old English quilting frame was smaller and had been adapted for the limited room available. The puffiness of the part of the quilt (foreground) that's not yet quilted also tells us the batting (the English would call it 'wadding') was probably wool. Lastly there's the stitching process on view. The quilter has quilted the outline inside of a feather wreath and its outline outside. Now we see she's going back and filling in the little curves of the feather spines. Clever, isn't it? For anyone who has pretzled themselves around a quilting hoop stitching feathers, this practical approach makes good sense!
Wild Goose Wednesday is pretty simple. Each Wednesday for the next 33 weeks I will be making and posting 8 flying geese for a total of 264. Use the simple tutorial above to make 4 | 2-1/2" x 5" finished blocks Cutting From print #1 {light or dark print} cut 1 | 6-1/4" square From #2 Print {light or dark print} cut 4 |3-3/8" squares Assemble 1.Draw diagonal lines on wrong side of smaller squares. 2.With right sides together place two small squares in opposite corners. Sew 1/4" on each side of drawn line. 3. Cut on diagonal line. Open triangles and press. 4. With right sides together place another small square in corner as shown and sew 1/4" on each side of line. 5. Cut on diagonal line. Open triangles and press. If you would like to make a different size block check out this great size and tutorial sheet Once the quilt is assembled it will measure 55" x 60" This is my inspiration. There are more flying geese quilts here to inspire you. Lets get started | Using directions above make 8 Wild Geese
Now get ready for a lace and doiley extravaganza!!! (Not too much of an overload I hope!). Well I have just been going through some of m...
My mother used to tease me and suggest that "if I put a book on my head maybe I would learn by *Osmosis" *Osmosis: unconscious assimilation I'm wondering if the same process might work with quilting? ** Do you think there is a possibility that all of those "WIP's" (Works in Progress) or the hundreds of quilt ideas floating in my head would magically get done if I put a sewing machine on my head? "Quilting By Osmosis"? Might be worth a try. Mahafaly woman/ Southern Mdagascar Image found on Pinterest
I fully intended to complete and display this little table-topper and during my first-week-of-July ‘red, white & blue’ extravaganza. But reality hit and it didn’t happen. However, after having this project on my list for 2 years now, I figured I’d just go with the momentum, whether it was past the holiday or not.This was...Read More
I had an exciting night on Tuesday in the company of all these fabulous people you can see in the photo. We were all invited to Kim McLean's...
A mid to late 20th century block.It's a wheel design with an octagon in the center.Not too hard to find in BlockBasewhere it's #3600 Friendship Circle from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicated co
