Hello Quilters,
I’m looking for information on a quilt I found tossed away, obviously vintage, but I realized the same quilt also appears on The Walton’s TV series!! I’m absolutely sure of this because I have pics of both mine and there’s.
The quilt is a one piece, broad cloth quilt, same exact print to the Tee as Walton’s! But mine has slightly different colors (aquas) than the Walton’s quilt.
Does this mean I have a quilt that was made in or before the 1930’s 1940s, the date the show is depicting?
I’d love to know more about the quilt I have, but haven’t found info any where. I’m hopeful, since finding this forum, to learn something here.
I’d love advice about how to repair the quilt as it has some severe wear in the usual areas, where it was folded the most. Some areas have such thinning of fabric that some 2” x 8” areas are just gone.☹️ And where the quilting stitching is compromised, the batting seems to shift and lump together as if it is loose cotton rather than the stay together batting I use today. I have no idea how the quilt was batted back then and fear some areas may be impossible to fix. Perhaps if I could learn about vintage batting, like wether it is or isn’t one strong piece that stays together, then I can make better decisions on wether to replace the batting or not. But that’s a big job! And quite honestly, the batting is so yummy that I’d rather not replace it as long as it stays put by the stitches that are still there and the repair stitches I will sew in to sandwhich it which I can do when repairing.
I will research repair options and consider wether I may have to repair it as a smaller quilt, but that would be sad. But smaller would be better then scrapping the treasure altogether. I probably can never find the fabric to fix it with but I’m not against or unable to find fabrics close enough in color scheme to atleast have myself a finished quilt I can use and love on! 😍
I’d like to mention I have another post about another quilt treasure I recently found, because their similarities and info may help others know what I have and what to do for them. The other quilt is also a one piece top, printed same design on both sides, same era looking, same possible thread fabric as they both seem to have easy thinning. The tag reads, “Colonial Quilt Company” but I’ve found no info on this company except one of these quilts for sale on EBay.
But this quilt (Walton’s) is much better quality than the one I talk about on my other post that has specks in the batting. My feeling is, my grandmother probably bought this other quilt as a close-out due to the defects in it that I can see. And that makes sense given that she survived the Great Depression and afterwards always saved money anywhere she could including buying defect items.
i hope this all makes sense and I hope I can put pics up of the quilts so you can see what I’m saying.
****If I can post pics, the Walton’s-like quilt I have has aqua colors in it. The Walton’s quilt pics are obvious because the pics are from the show, and colors slightly different. The tag and pink quilt is the quilt from the same company that I found on a woman’s listing on EBay (my tag got washed out after first wash!).
Thank you for any help you can offer. I’m so glad I found this forum. ❤️👍🏼😁
Well, I can’t figure out how to post pics
but I will come back and edit once I get help from moderators
