Vintage quilt tops #11 & #12 quilted - project done!
 

Below are pics of two more vintage quilt tops that I just finished making into quilts. The tops were made (all hand-pieced) by Mary Susan (Weathers) Senter, and she was born in 1843 and died in 1937 at age 93. She married Robert Winthrop Senter in 1861 when she was 18. The style of the fabrics look to be early 1900s to 1930s, but it is amazing how vibrant the colors are still in them now, about a hundred years later.

These are the final ones of twelve tops that belonged to a couple that I'm good friends with (he's the grandson of Mary Susan Senter). I quilted all 12 tops for them, so this will complete the project now that I started back in 2009. I'm glad to have these all done now, but it was really an honor working on these quilts that were started so long ago. As a quilter, I like to think that Mary Susan would be glad to finally see her work completed.

It is always good to see the older tops finished and I'm sure that she is looking down and smiling! Great job Eddie.:)

Nice quilting and how nice for you that you had the opportunity to work on those family treasures. A job well done!

Wonderful, wonderful.

Eddie, these are gorgeous! thanks for sharing.

Hard to believe they are so old. The colours are so bright and crisp

Beautiful work! How great that you know the grandson of the maker and some of the family history of these quilts. Thank you very much for sharing.

Very nice! So often quilt tops have no history and unknown makers (important - label!). What skill and design sense Mrs. Senter had and no rotary cutter or fancy sewing machine!

Wow the colors are amazing! Nice to see them finally finished. I wonder if someone will be finishing my unfinished projects 100 years from now?

That is very beautiful.

Wow, what a wonderful friend you are! They are so nice. Love them.

Those are beautiful quilts. You did a good job with the quilting

I like the pink one, I too have some old tops. Do not know what to do with them yet.

Great job Eddie!

You brought them to their full life! Thanks for sharing.

You can't get any better than a quilt which is already a heirloom. These are truely amazing. Excellent job bringing these quilt tops to life, and such wonderful piecing done in bygone years. Sensational.

love the pink one!! they are fabulous

Great quilts. I'm glad you were able to get them quilted and finish them.

Very beautiful. You did a great job.

Pretty quilts.

Lovely work as usual

Very nice and it was nice that you supplied us with the background info too! I agree the colors are amazing!

Very pretty, well done

Very nice quilts

Beautiful quilts, wonderful story. I love the older quilts, the women used what they had. As others have said, I'm sure the woman that pieced these is smiling down knowing that these are appreciated.

They are beautiful and i commend you for taking on such a task, great job

How wonderful to see these finished. You are right about the colors - amazing how great they still look.

Thank you for sharing the history as well as the tops. As always your talents shine thru. The fabrics look as if she had just finished the piecing.

Thanks for sharing the antique quilts with us. Amazing about the colors still being so bright and now that they are all finished they can be well used. Carol

They are beautiful!

I'm sure there's an angel above smiling down at the beautiful quilt you made from her start! Thanks for sharing.

Those old quilt tops are just beautiful and so is your quilting. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Good for you for finishing them for her. I love seeing the old fabrics.

So beautiful. Looks like a real labor of love. Great job.

You did a beautiful job on them Eddie. I love to look at the older quilts - how the colors retained their brightness after so long but it makes me wonder - will the fabrics we use today still look as bright and colorful 100 years from now? I sure hope so! I like how you gave us a little bit of history on them too. She is smiling down at you right now I am sure.

I love vintage quilts and these are beautiful. Great work!