Very Old Quilt Blocks
#43
beautiful colors and fabrics. You might check in your area and see if there is a quilt guild or a quilt shop with info about quilt restoration experts nearby who might advise you. If you don't have shattering in the fabrica, you can probably handle them---gently, but still handle them. I'd rather have the treasure you found than a silver do-dad any day. Just think your great-grandmother touched those fabrics, sewed those blocks, thought about how to put them together, went through the same processes you are going through. Lovely connections..
#45
Originally Posted by nancya
I will get them out of the cedar chest and try taking pictures so I can post them. I will keep searching. I have been trying to find a thread about it this morning.
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NancyA
#46
Originally Posted by Elisabrat
Truthfully I would put them together and then hang this item behind protected glass.. make it something to look at but not wash and play with. If your family is larger maybe make four wall quilts not one big quilt and share with everyone a framed piece of the past as a gift at Christmas.
#47
A note about storing old quilts in a pillowcase. I've read in an article about preserving quilts that this is fine as long as they are new pillowcases. Ones that have been used even though they have been washed still have some body oils in them that could transfer to the quilt.
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I have made quilts from old family blocks and each time there were different challenges to meet. One was so old that every time I rocked my needle up and down the fabric split!! YIKES!! So I had to finish the quilt by stitching straight up and then straight down!! Man, I thought I would grow old just working on dthat one quilt!!It was a bunch of beautiful old crazy quilt blocks that I had to square to size and set together with sashing and I quilted it in a huge spider web pattern that my husband helped me map out! It was great fun!
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