Antique quilt top
#21
I just read an interesting article on quilt historian Barbara Brackman's blog, Material Culture, where she suggests that quilting very old tops is a bad idea.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/...a-5-quilt.html
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/...a-5-quilt.html
well, to each his own. She can do as she wishes with her quilts. I have hand quilted many antique tops. I wouldn't have even paid $5 for the one in her post!! Old fabrics are going to disintegrate whether you quilt them or not, if they are unstable to begin with.
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I had a very old, but beautiful quilt top with appliqué butterflies on it, the background fabric was very thin white cotton. I knew I wouldn’t hand quilt it so I asked my long arm lady if she could do it. I used a plain piece of fabric for the backing and it turned out beautiful. I am very careful with this vintage quilt.
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I’m having the same dilemma. Years ago I hand quilted several small quilts but I prefer machine quilting. I can’t wrap my head around hand stitching around everyone of these hexagons. I’ll let you know.
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I was able to scan in the rough draft of my quilting design. You will notice lots of erasures and such I won't be doing the row stitching shown (did those in ink), just the heart design. Hoping I did this correctly!
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