Hello, It would appear that we inadvertantly went on a Summer holiday and stopped blogging. We are back now.
Do you like my little quilt? I bought it in California about 20 years ago in a small antique mall. It is a baby’s quilt and has beautiful embroidered children styled blocks.
The quilt is made up of hand embroidered squares known as Penny squares which were used as a subscription incentive by newspapers from the 1860’s up to the 1930’s.
This quilt is embroidered in blue, which most probably for a little boy, I just love the centre square,”Tell me that you love me”. I think this is why I bought the quilt and I recall paying just $20 for it. Every other square is hand tied with embroidery thread
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When held up to the light, it is possible to see the cotton bols and seeds as its settled into the seperate blocks.
Wouldn’t this quilt make a lovely project in different coloured threads to give it a modern feel or even in the tradtional redwork.
I have been playing about with the blocks. I have embroidered the centre block in the traditional redwork and then the goat in two colours with a variagated brown thread and a light green for the foliage. The quilt is over 100 years old and is quite lovely. Ann x
