How beautiful! Those fabrics stood up to the sun? WOW! So glad you have it now and tattered only show love and use! That's what quilting is for, love and use.

Happy Quilting,
Sharon

I am glad you rescued it... I think it is beautiful..

sweet rescue!

Lucky you! What a treasure!

WOW! What a story to go with the quilt.
Beautiful

Great rescue - way to go.

where can you get some of the old patterns my ex-mil tried to teach me to hand quilt i like piecing better than quilting at that time and she did a lot of the old patterns and i was wondering where i could get some of the old patterns thanks so much dorothy freom tenn and that quilt is beautiful thanks

O MY GOSH.. you are a lucky girl to own that... it is simply GORGOUS!!!

Dorothy, look through the liknks and resources section in main page for leads to lots of online patterns. There are lots of great free patterns for all types of quilting.

I love the old quilts. It's great to have family history you can wrap up in.

Lucky you!!! Is it signed?