My neighbor stopped me in the hall and asked if I wanted to see the quilt her Grandmother made a long time ago. It is hand embroidered on flour sacks or feed sacks or muslin not sure. Here are a couple of pictures of it. The woman who did this work copied the pictures from her books.

How delightful to see something hand embroidered so long ago! thanks for sharing.

What a treasure she has. I remember Mama and Daddy buying the feed sacks and using flour sacks. That dates me, but as they say, Those were the good ole days!

WOW!!! That is such a treasure!! I'm so glad she showed it to you and that you showed it to us!! I especially love the birds in the wooden shoe! :wink:

Amazing that it survived and is in such good condition. Thank you for sharing.

That is fantastic. Always a pleasure to see hand work. Thank you for sharing

Thank you for posting the pics...just beautiful.

My thoughts exactly. Thank you.

What an amazing quilt :D:D:D

Wow. That really cool to see.

Beautiful, that has sure been taken care of well.

what a beautiful keepsake she has .

Treasure with a capital TTTTTTT !

That's great and so amazing that it is in such great shape. Thank you for sharing and thank your neighbor. :)

It looks great, I love seeing vintage quilts, thanks for sharing! :)

Thanks Lori for putting a pic on the board for us to see. The work was beautiful. It was so intricate and lasted so well.

Carol from NC

I really Love redwork this is awesome.

It has such character and beauty!

Wow, how gorgeous.

Sewfine

What a treasure. The embroidery is beautiful.

its beautiful

Beautiful, and what a treasure!!

Awesome.

Absolutely beautiful!

How wonderful to get to view this. Thank you so much for posting it

love redwork thanks for sharing

I always wondered if they used books to copy pictures from. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

What a treasure she has. I hope someone can fix the tear in it for her.

Thanks for sharing... Both of you!

It is pretty well torn up on the back, she is thinking of putting a muslin sheet on the the back to stabilize it and use unbleached muslin on the front. The top 4 inches are disintergrating.

wow thanks for sharing

What a treasure she has............ hope it gets preserved for years to come.

Love it. I love vintage quilts. Hope the tear in the bottom right hand corner is an easy fix. Thanks for sharing a quilt from 130 yrs ago. Wish I still had my old quilts that was lost in a house fire many years ago.