Hello Quilters! I wanted to drop in to show you these photos of 30 blocks and a top my friend Trudy brought to me. She found these at a AARP store. When she saw them she thought, if anyone would do something with them, it would be me.
They were dingy and stained so I Oxiclean/soaked them and these are before and after photos. The top didn't hold up too well, as I figured, because it was made from an unsuitable cloth. I serged the long edges, but there was no way to finish the hexies and some have raveled out, with just one washing. Does anyone recognize this hexie top pattern?
The Sunbonnet blocks held up well, though. (See the close up of the worse block, before and after.) I don't have any vintage fabric, but I laid this blue and white under, for you to see what you thought of me stripping with it. Lord knows it has enough pink!
I know it is a cotton, but not like the base of the SB blocks. They are almost like feed sack cloth. When washed they wrinkled up and seem thick, but they I pressed them and they iron out so good. Does anyone know from what year these little dress fabrics were from? I can back it with a muslin, maybe....Let me know your thoughts please, thanks . Oh, I forgot to say, Trudy asked for me to make her twin grand daughters a pillow or something with 2 blocks, if it wouldn't mess up my top. I don't mind making them, but her daughter already told her she doesn't even want them and it will make my top smaller.
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