Daughter #3 spotted this gorgeous top at a recent sale and scooped it up for me!
It is HUGE! I love the edge treatment though it will be a pain to finish. It has been folded and wrinkled for years. Perhaps since it was made back in the 30’s. I would love to get this in the frame and quilted soon. Any ideas for how to quilt it?
I will ponder that as I work on my pumpkin seed blocks later today. I got 75% of them done on our trip but that last 25% is taking forever!
Linking up with Kathy for Slow Stitching Sunday.
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Oh my goodness – that is just lovely. YOu have some fabulous finds!!
What a wonderful pattern! Love the border. I’m bookmarking this for some quilt in future where I need a border idea. Thanks so much for sharing and congrats!
What an awesome find!
Your daughter made a great find! This will be fun to bring back to life.
Oh Katy, it is beautiful – good job #3 😀 I like the other suggestions of doing the negative spaces, and I think the edge would look just as lovely with a straight binding.
That is gorgeous! Love the scraps of that red with white dots fabric!
The quilter who made this top would be sooo happy that it has come to you!
Can’t wait to see what you quilt!
Lucky you! It is soooo beautiful! What a nice daughter you have. She was very smart not to let such a great quilt escape. By what everyone is saying, you have quite a task in front of you. Good luck
Wow, that top is beautiful. I would put a circle of feathers in the white spaces. Maybe just outline the diamonds. Perhaps the funky edge is why this was never finished. Your daughter found a gem.
Lovely find by a well trained daughter! I’d hate to see the work of piecing that diamond border go to waste by cutting it straight. I wonder if appliquéing the edge to a strip of white would work better than inserting triangles. I think the traditional way of quilting would be as Carla suggested for one area of the country and Baptist fan for another.
I don’t know how common that pattern was or how valuable the top is as an antique. You might want to check. If you do anything to the top, the date changes to the latest date of work and antique/vintage value is decreased.
Lucky you for sure. That quilt is gorgeous!! Way to go daughter!! I agree with other comments…quilt in that white open space and then around the star and the outer patches around the star. If you bind it, I think it might take as long to finish as the hand quilting…haha! Knife edge would be the way I would go!
It’s a beautiful top! Maybe feathers ir small circular feathers in the white spaces. I love the Baptist Fan design also. Hugs,
That is a treasure!!
Wow, that quilt top is gorgeous! What a lucky find.
I agree with Deb that adding white triangles around the outside to give you a straight edge is a good idea. I can’t imagine binding all those little zigzags.
Beautiful find. I was thinking baptist fan for the quilting. Any way you could hand stitch some triangles to all those diamonds on the edge to make it straight for binding?
What a beautiful top. Wouldn’t you love to know about the quilter who made it. Enjoy your day.
Wow! What a fabulous find!! If I were blessed enough to call that top mine, I believe I’d quilt it just like Carla suggested. I can’t wait to see what you decide.
An absolute treasure!! What an amazing find…It will be fun to see you progress with the quilting ! 🙂
great find! all over fans might be nice. Of course I like fans on almost any quilt.
Wow great quilt. I would worry about stretching that edge with all that bias just hanging there. I would use a knife edge finish after it is quilted. As for quilting maybe a motif in those negative spaces with 1/4 inch away from the seams on the rest of it. Looking forward to what you will do with it.
Wow! It’s beautiful. Kudos to your daughter. If you don’t expect it to have hard use, you might want to bind by folding the backing over to the front. Sewing on a separate binding would be a nightmare. It will be fabulous when finished, though.