What should I do?
#23
Originally Posted by littlehud
I agree. Take out the hand quilting and give that beautiful quilt a new lease on life.
#24
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 151
I think kathyd is right. I'll bet someone found, bought or inherited the top and decided to try to finish it. Bought some polyfiber batting, found an old sheet and then tried hand quilting. She meant well, but she didn't have a mentor. So now take her intentions and do what your mentors have taught you so that the original piecer of this quilt can be honored. I think your plan is wonderful.
#26
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Baileys Prairie, Texas
Posts: 294
you probably would not be able to match the hand quilting and the back would never change and would bug you for all time..be thankful you love the top. Take out the hand quilting find a new back and be thrilled with your new quilt.
#30
[quote=jeanequilts]I bought a partially hand quilted quilt. It is a mini trips around the world, made of older fabrics. Some look to be feed sack, but some are newer (1940's).
Just wanted to say that feed sack fabric was available well into the 1950's. I was born in 1946, and remember eagerly waiting for the feed delivery man so that I could get first choice of the sack material I wanted him to leave. Then having to fight with my sisters over calling dibs on the ones I wanted first. I was probably around 10 at that time.
If none of us females were around to pick the sacks we want left, then he would without fail drop off the ugliest ones that no one else would pick.
Just wanted to say that feed sack fabric was available well into the 1950's. I was born in 1946, and remember eagerly waiting for the feed delivery man so that I could get first choice of the sack material I wanted him to leave. Then having to fight with my sisters over calling dibs on the ones I wanted first. I was probably around 10 at that time.
If none of us females were around to pick the sacks we want left, then he would without fail drop off the ugliest ones that no one else would pick.
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