Good Morning! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas this year. I sure did. Mr. Wonderful, my hubby, was in cahoots with Daughters #1 and 3 and got me gifts even though we were not going to exchange gifts with each other this year. Remember a while back when I went to the antique mall with Daughter #1 and found this?

Well, I found it again, this time under my tree! Sorry for the bad pic, this was the closest I could come to having a clear space big enough to lay it out. The squares finish at about an inch and a half. I have lots of detail shots to follow.

The pink squares surrounding the center appear to be some silky fabric. It is the only fabric that appears not to be cotton.

The maker was very careful to make everything symmetrical. Where she didn’t have enough of a single fabric for an entire round, she added a coordinating print in the corners, carefully keeping them all the same.

See the pattern in the purple border? It is carefully repeated in the same place on each side.

Apparently, she even cut up parts of a kit quilt to use!

I definitely want to finish this. I will machine quilt it, probably in concentric squares. I realize to some that machine quilting a vintage 1930’s quilt top is sacreligous. However, if it is left to me to hand quilt this, it will remain a top to be sold at my estate sale! I want to put this on my bed and use it.

I will show you the second top Mr. Wonderful bought for me tomorrow.

This morning it is back to work at the library!