What to do with a really ugly vintage quilt top?
08-29-2010, 02:35 PM
#141
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Treasure the quilt. When I was growing up, we would have loved to have one like that to sleep under. Our bedrooms had no heat, so we had enough quilts on us, til we couldn't turn over. LOL. We used the old feather beds (which you certainly don't see anymore). Quilts then were made with what we had to make them with. Feed sacks, scraps from homemade clothes, etc. Be glad your mother-in-law gave it to you. I would love to have one like that given to me. My grandmother used to piece string quilts on newspaper or old pieces of worn cloth. Anything to make a quilt to keep warm.
08-29-2010, 02:59 PM
#143
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Originally Posted by doowopddbop
Quilt it up, bind it, and use it for a great picnic quilt!! I had a customer bring me a similar one that her grandmother had made in the 60's-70's. Hideous fabrics to me, some of them 100% polyester. She had used newspaper to foundation piece it, and top-stitched all the seams... newsprint was flying everywhere!! So I spent an hour or two picking out the newspaper shreds, then quilted it with a large stipple, and it is surprising what a little texture will do to make a quilt come alive.
08-29-2010, 03:37 PM
#144
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I think the quilt is great just as it is. I have a few quilt tops very similar made by my grandmother during the 60's or 70's. She had no money so I guess this was her creative outlet using whatever she had. Enjoy it.
08-29-2010, 03:46 PM
#146
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Us oldies understand and would cherish it. There was no fabric to buy in our town when I was a child. It was feedsacs or someones large dress cut up to make a smaller one. Many people had quilts made out of old mens woolen pants and coats - talk about depressing. At least they were warm if you didn't get scratched too badly. Just as a aside, I had my first piece of bubble gum at age seven. There was not any during the war. Our world was very different from today. Maybe that is why I am such a fabric hog.
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