Beautiful hankies, Pam! I love how you have them displayed now!
And thank you Ninnie, for the pictures you posted, and of the link you posted Pam! They're absolutely beautiful!!

Years ago, I had a whole box that were my grandmother's. I think I sold them at a yard sale a long time ago. :oops: :!: I've been re-collecting them for awhile now, all the while kicking myself for not keeping the ones I had! I've gotten some off Ebay, not cheap though! And quite a few at yard sales, estate sales, for .50-$1.00 each. :D
I absolutely love the quilts that's been posted here using them!

Handkerchief quilts are awesome.. I saw one at the AQS Expo in Knoxville today with the Hankies folded into butterflies as in one of the pictures shown..
May I say it was BEAUTIFUL!
what a lovely way to preserve a bit of textile history.

trying to send a picture of one I saw a a quilt show

That is so pretty!! I had to download and turn it sideways because I wasn't sure what the middle was. Very imaginative to do the woman's skirt in a hanky.

I bought 65 hankies on eBay today. I really want to try doing one.

Wow!!!!

I just took another look at the hanky lady and had a thought - hankies were used a lot to embellish Victorain crazy quilts - just an idea to toss into the mix, Pam! :D

Funquilter, thanks for posting that, it's really pretty, and so creative!!!
:-)

I have a book I found about 6 yrs ago

Hanky-Panky Crazy Quilts by Cindy Brick
publisher: American School of Needlework Publishing
1455 Linda Vista Drive
San Marcos, CA 92069
book number is 4209

It is fabulous. Have collected hankies since 1979 when my grandma died and I inherited a bunch of hers. Have a Hanky-Panky crazy quilt in progess that I have been working on for about year and a half now. It is all appliqued on by hand along with laces, hand crocheted doilies (my grandma) made, antique buttons and beads, etc. It is turning out just fabulous. Am making it queen size and also am making 2 pillow shams with blocks of hankies, etc on them. Will post work in progress as soon as I can get my daughter to help me as I am computer and digital camera dummy when it comes to doing stuff like that. Can type apx 120 wpm but no good at other electronic stuff - lol. Hope you can find this book as it is great. Oh, I have apx 100 hankies in my quilt so far.

Sandy

My blocks look alot like the one posted by "funquilter". They are appliqued on to white cotton blocks with no stabilizer at all and all hand appliqued on and then I add laces or doilies and last I do button or bead work. If has deco lace or scalloped edges I leave them that way, otherwise I add lace or embroidery/tatting work to edges. Use center of floral hankies or lace doilies for center of each block and applique corner cuts of hankies layered around it til get to outside edges of block.

That sounds beautiful, and a lot of work! Looking forward to seeing pictures of it.

I received 65 vintage hankies and have another 38 (?) coming that are new.