117becca

I also would use a cotton batting - but that is also my favorite kind of batting. Backing - a nice quality of muslin. And that would have been the norm back then.

here's a carpenter's wheel that i found online and how they quilted a block...

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I would add a border to give a bit of space between the blocks and the binding. I was looking for inspiration ideas for this grandma's flower garden i'm working on & came across this. I went to a quilt store and bought reproduction 30s fabrics and they look great w/ the quilt and no one believes that the border was added in 2010 and not 1950 when the quilt was made

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