Wanabee Quiltin

I have over 300 quilt books and have never seen this pattern, I believe it's an African American pattern.

nativetexan

http://julieisa.blogspot.com/2010/09/answers.html look at the cute quilt under the word HOME. I have this one, it's a bit on the same vain as the photo you posted. I love it and hope to make it one of these days.

MissJMac

At first glance it looks like the outline of a young pioneer girl. Perhaps it was made for granddaughter by a quilter who had a lot of time on her hands. Sorry ladies, that's all I've got LOL. Beautiful work though.

matraina

Don't know but it sure is pretty!

Jan in VA

This topic piqued my interest and I have spent 3 days looking through my quilt history books to find something like this figure. It is like the shape of women in the long dresses with very full shirts of the 1850-1880 era; they also wore their hair tight to the head, often in a bun at the nape. I found some very similar figures in quilts in chapters 8 & 9 of Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women by C & T Publishing. I know I've seen a quilt like this before, but can't seem to find the picture.

The gray we see may have been a blue often called Lancaster blue, common in quilts of the 1860-1880 era. These blues often turn gray-blue when they are exposed to liquids, such as being washed. Many, many fabrics were home dyed in those days using natural botanical dyes. It would be so neat to be able to carefully examine a seam in this quilt to know for sure what the original colors were.

Thank you for sharing this with us!

Jan in VA

bearisgray

Could someone have made a paper doll cutout and thought it looked nice and decided to applique that shape to every other square?

Funny - I didn't even say the "person" shape the first time I looked at it.

I go To The Sea To Breathe

How clever. So neat to have.

JanieH

No idea on the pattern but it is sure unique = thanks for sharing it with us!

ccthomas

It reminds me of a Linda Brannock type quilt pattern.