What is this?
 

Well I know what it is, its a quilt block my mother made hundreds of. My question is What is the stitching pattern and is there a website where I can learn it? I remember her sitting for hours happily stitching these blocks.

I believe it is called Chicken Scratch embroidery. It was quite popular many years ago. It's very pretty, she was very good at it.

It's called chicken scratch.
I love it, made a baby quilt about 30 yrs ago out of it.
you can google it.
fun and easy to do

Did it in the late 70's & 80's... here's a tutorial I found


http://kindawonderful.typepad.com/pi...tch-guide.html

That is chicken scratch. I did many apron borders using that

Thank you all so much. Now I can finish a quilt using these blocks. When she died there wasn't enough blocks finished to make a quilt even if I added sashing.

Oh this brings back memories ... we did this in the 60s in all sorts of different designs. A nice spin off from traditional embroidery, using the gingham as your grid.

We did it mostly as aprons. I remember my sister doing it as a border on a child's dress.

A chicken scratch quilt would be so lovely.

I remember my grandmother having this on her curtains, aprons, etc. I didn't know there was a name for it. Thanks for the wonderful memories!!

I remember seeing it but have never done it.

it looks like they were made to fit into the shape of a star.

i ***love*** chicken scratch embroidery! i find it from time to time at the thrift store and it always makes me feel gleeful!

aileen