Age of quilt tops
 

My girl friends father in law passed away and these quilt tops had been stuck in a Minneosta attic for many years....never completed. She has now had it long armed and wants to put a label on it. I shared information about this website and all the wonderful people being so helpful and friendly. We thought someone here might recognize some of the fabrics and be able to shed some light on the age.

I recently quilted a butterfly quilt that looks a lot like that one, same butterflies, even yellow background. The one I quilted was made in the 70s. Some of those fabrics look like they could be 40s prints but others seem much more recent.

The black applique stitching around the Sunbonnet Sue's and the butterflies -- is that done by hand or machine? A close-up of some of the blocks would be helpful.
They sure are pretty!

A close up would be much easier to see the prints. Really cute though.

more photos for a close up
 

Loving the input...so here is some more info......The black is hand stitched and the blocks are machine stitched together. She thinks the blocks were created at a much earlier time than the quilt itself. When cleaning the house they found 15 extra blocks not included in the quilt. That is what we know....

Thanks quilting board friends for the help!

I would guess the 40s. All that nice handwork. Too bad she didn't have the time to hand quilt them.

Ditto - 30's 40's fabric and patterns. Hand quilting would have preserved the vintage look.

Those are feedbacks,probably 30's to 40's.

Thanks for the close-ups. I have never seen a Sunbonnet Sue with her hands in her pockets. I have one with no hands at all.

I think 40 - 50's and thanks for the bigger pics. Very nice work they did on it too. The hands in the pockets and pockets are so cute!

Oh very well done they are. Cute and bright. Age I can't say but go with decades ago at least.

They are so cute! So glad you all were able to get them finished! I'm more of "better done than sitting in a drawer thinking they should be done somehow else" type of person.

Both quilts are gorgeous! I have no idea how old the fabrics are, though.

I have exactly the same attitude as you!

Some of the prints on the butter fly's look like flour sacks. The colors and the tops look like they are in great shape. They could be older than they look (colors are still bright, because of being in a trunk out of the light). Thank you for sharing.

Circa 1930 for sure. Very pretty quilts!

AMEN!! Such beautiful handwork in the applique. Wish there had been consistency in the finishing with hand quilting, as well.

Thanks for the input everyone....I agree that hand quilting would have been a great thing to do. My friend has never done anything by "hand" before. She hasn't had the butterflies quilted yet...maybe she will take the time to have that done.

I'm with the 30's/40's. Beautiful blocks and love the black outline stitching....very cool. Thanks for sharing.

My thought exactly. The yellow might be yardage, but the rest are all familiar to me as " feed or flour sack prints".

I think it could even be early 50's as my grandmother used the black thread and also the Sue bonnet pattern for our quilts when my sister and I were born.

I would have never notied the hands in the pockets if you ladies had not pointed it out. Thank for doing so.

What a great find!! I love them both and I would make the remaining blocks into a baby quilt. Beautiful hand stitching on them